Truman & Southwest Baptist Split Doubleheader

Game 1: Truman 10, Southwest Baptist 7 || Box Score
Game 2: Southwest Baptist 10, Truman 3 || Box Score

2014 Schedule || 2014 Season Stats || Truman Record: 9-10 (5-3 GLVC)

KIRKSVILLE – Jarod Hahn hit a pair of home runs and Corban Williams swiped four bases to run his consecutive steals streak to 16 in a non-conference doubleheader split with Southwest Baptist (Mo.) on Wednesday. The Bulldogs won game one 10-7 while the Bearcats took game two, 10-3. Truman returns to conference play on Saturday at Missouri S&T.

Hahn belted a home run in each game with his second and third of the season and added a double to go with five RBIs in the twinbill. Blake Deaton went 4-for-5 from the dish with a double and triple and drove in four runs. Truman had six extra base hits on the day while Williams swiped a pair of bases in both games and now has a team-leading 16 steals on the season.

Not to be outdone, the Bearcats hit .422 as a team with four players, Christian Binger, Ross Wolfe, Chance Wolfe and Landon Young, collecting four hits apiece.

The Bulldogs are now 9-10 on the season and the Bearcats move to 14-12. The two teams split a doubleheader in Bolivar in early March.

Game 1 Recap: Truman roared out to a 3-0 lead with Corban Williams being the catalyst. Williams drew a four-pitch walk, swiped second and third before Jarod Hahn doubled down the left field line. Chris Zrostlik worked a full count walk with two outs and Blake Deaton sliced a 2-1 pitch into the right field corner for a triple bringing in Hahn and Zrostlik.

Sam Reuter pitched a harmless first three innings before running into a bit of trouble in the fourth. With one out Chance Wolfe singled, Bo Helsel followed with a basehit and Drew Miller was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Paul Trenhaile snared a line drive off his shoe tops from Tyler Hampton and stepped on first base for the unassisted double-play to get out of the inning.

The Bulldogs turned that momentum changing play into three more runs in the bottom of the fourth. Blake Deaton singled and stole second, then after a walk to Dave Gambino, took third on a steal. Wyatt Fones singled through the left side to bring in Deaton and after a pitching change; Zak Larkin drove the ball up the middle to plate both Fones and Gambino.

SBU found their offensive rhythm in the fifth. Four straight singles with the last coming from Jake Vore and scoring two runs took Reuter out of the game. Taylor Brooks got the first man he faced but then allowed a two-out single by Helsel to cut Truman's lead in half at 6-3.

The Bearcats got a run closer in the sixth. Hampton started the inning and singled chasing Brooks for Chris Allard on the Truman hill. Allard retired the next two hitters with one pitch each but the third pitch thrown resulted in a single up the middle by Christian Binger to score Hampton from third. Cody Gardner followed Allard and struck out Ross Wolfe swinging to end the inning.

Hahn delivered the insurance that the Bulldogs needed in a four-run sixth. A pair of hits and a passed ball moved Will Nader and Larkin into scoring position with Williams hitting a sac fly to center. Trenhaile got an infield hit to put runners at the corners before Hahn blasted the first pitch he saw over the right field fence for a 10-4 lead.

Gardner got the first two out in the seventh but SBU made things interesting. After a hit by pitch and a walk, a fielding error brought in one run. Zach Snodgrass hit a ground-rule double to score another and a wild pitch brought in a third run. Gardner finished off Landon Young with a strikeout to notch his third save of the year and preserve the first win for Reuter. John Latham took the loss for the Bearcats.

Game 2 Recap: Cole Roark cooled off the Truman bats in game two allowing three hits in five innings. The SBU offense got 16 hits from eight of nine position players to roll to a 10-3 win in game two.

The Bearcats jumped on Tyler Spencer in the first with three runs on four hits. Ross Wolfe had a clutch two-out, two-run single to left center in the inning.

The Bulldogs got a run back in the second when back-to-back doubles from Chris Zrostlik and Blake Deaton. However Roark was not rattled as he struck out Dave Gambino and got the next two outs leaving Deaton standing on second.

The teams would exchange runs in the fourth. Christian Binger hit a two-out triple to right for the Bearcats and Jarod Hahn hit a towering home run near the right field scoreboard for the Bulldogs.

SBU broke things open with two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth for a 7-2 lead.

Deaton executed a perfect two-out squeeze play in the bottom of the sixth as the Bulldogs scratched out a run. However the Bearcats would score three times on two hits in the top of the seventh with Chance Wolfe getting a big two-out single up the middle.

Roark pitched five innings for his second win of the year and Spencer was tagged with his third loss for the Bulldogs.

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