Carson-Newman Baseball Game Notes
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Due to a threat of wintry weather conditions, the Carson-Newman Eagles (6-3, 4-2 South Atlantic Conference) will travel to Anderson Memorial Stadium to face the Anderson (S.C.) Trojans (6-5, 4-2 SAC) for a three-game weekend series that was originally scheduled for Jefferson City.
The Eagles braved the weather conditions Wednesday afternoon by playing in snow and windy weather in a 6-5 victory over the Shorter Hawks. It was another game where the pitching staff did its job and the hitters came through with timely hits.
Opponents are hitting just .224 against Carson-Newman this season as the Eagles are among the top teams in the league in virtually every statistical category. Control has been the biggest calling card for head coach Tom Griffin's group as Carson-Newman has yielded the fewest walks in the SAC this season at 22.
The trio of senior righthander Quinton Yocom (Cable, Ohio), junior southpaw Vince Apicella (Dillsburg, Pa.) and junior lefty Jamie Miller (Wardensville, W.V.) has stymied Catawba and Brevard so far this season. Apicella has thrown nine-inning complete games in each of his last two outings tallying 13 strikeouts in each contest as he looks for a third straight dominate start.
Carson-Newman has dominated the all-time series leading 16-4, but Anderson was able to take two out of three games at Anderson Memorial Stadium a season ago.
Anderson's 3-2 win in the first game of the snapped a five-game winning streak as the Trojans scored two runs in the seventh inning to edge the Eagles.
Game two of the series was the 250th victory for Griffin as the skipper at Carson-Newman. The Eagles ran away with an 11-4 victory as shortstop Bryan Everhart (Greeneville, Tenn.) went 3-for-4 with four RBI and two runs scored.
Anderson used a four-run sixth inning to gain separation in an 8-2 victory in the rubber game of the series.
The Trojans have won six of their last seven games, but have given up a bunch of runs of late including 19, 16 and 12 in that span. Despite those huge run outputs, Anderson is third from the bottom in the SAC in earned run average at 6.01.
Offensively Anderson is averaging seven runs per game while hitting .297 as a team. Preseason first team All-SAC selection Steven Cooper leads the way with a .341 batting average, two home runs and 12 RBI.
All three games can be heard on the Eagle Sports Network with Eric Cain providing the play-by-play on cneagles.com/live.
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