Roughriders baseball logs doubleheader sweep
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NEOSHO, Mo. — The Crowder College Roughriders baseball team (22-7) eked out a close 6-5 walk-off win in Game 1 and posted a 13-2 run-rule performance in Game 2 en route Saturday to a doubleheader sweep of the St. Charles Community College Cougars (17-24) at Lallemand Family Field.
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The Roughriders also swept the four-game series, which began Thursday, against the Cougars.
In Game 1 on Saturday, Crowder posted four runs in the bottom of the opening frame but was unable to get another run across until the bottom of the seventh.
In the meantime, the Cougars plated one run in the top of the third inning, two in the top of the fourth and took a 5-4 lead with two players scoring in the top of the seventh inning.
Spencer Mounce came through for the Roughriders in the bottom of the seventh when he drove in Maddox Morrison and Camren Stratton with a single to right field to help Crowder walk off with a 6-5 win.
Mounce led the Roughriders after going 2 for 3 with three RBIs and a run. Ryan Stalony was 1 for 3 with a run and an RBI.
Crowder starter Micah Henson gave up three runs, two earned on three hits, while striking out three and walking three in 3 1/3 innings. Will Rushing earned the win after giving up two runs, one earned, on two hits. He struck out one and walked none in 1 2/3 innings of relief.
Ayden Katzenberg led the Cougars, going 2 for 3 with one RBI.
Jackson Tankersly went the distance for St. Charles, giving up six runs, four earned, on eight hits. He struck out five and walked four in 6 1/3 innings.
The Roughriders carried the momentum of the Game 1 win into the second game, plating five runs in the bottom of the first.
St. Charles answered with a run in the top of the second, but the Roughriders responded with a Brady Nolen two-run homer to left field that plated Rylan Michel in the bottom of the inning to take a 7-1 lead.
The Cougars made it a 7-2 game with a run in the top of the third, but Crowder scored six runs in the bottom of the fourth to stretch the Roughriders' lead to 13-2.
Crowder held St. Charles scoreless in the top of the fifth to claim the run rule-shortened 13-2 win.
Nolen finished 2 for 2 with three runs and two RBIs. Morrison went 1 for 3 with three RBIs and a run.
Jacob Allinder went the distance for the Roughriders, giving up two runs on five hits, while striking out five and walking one in five innings.
Kurt Leiber led the Cougars at the plate after going 2 for 2 with a run and an RBI.
Crowder returns to action at 6 p.m. Tuesday for a special game against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M at Joe Becker Stadium.