BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – The Presbyterian College baseball team faced Gardner-Webb in a doubleheader on a Saturday full of rallies, home runs and drama that ultimately saw the Blue Hose fall in both games by margins of 9-5 and 6-5.

PC ends the day with an 18-23 overall record and a 4-14 marker in the Big South. Gardner-Webb improves to 24-13-1 and 9-9 in conference action.

Mack Hite (Abbeville, S.C.) and Tony Micklon (Sumter, S.C.) both posted four hits en route to a .444 average on the day. Brad Zebedis (Rock Hill, S.C.) led the team with five RBIs on Saturday as well.

The Blue Hose do not play a midweek game next week and take a break from Big South play with a weekend series against The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. The series begins on Friday at 2 p.m.

Game Two

After dropping the opening game, 6-5, PC rallied back to tie the second game in the ninth before Gardner-Webb escaped with a win.

Micklon went three-for-five in the second game and Zebedis (Rock Hill, S.C.) drove in three runs on a fifth-inning home run.

Chandler Knox (Columbia, S.C.) received the loss to move to 3-3. Adam Izokovic earned the win for Gardner-Webb.

Down 5-4 after eight innings in the day's second game, PC loaded the bases for John Wagner (Goose Creek, S.C.) with one out. Wagner delivered, driving a 1-1 pitch to right field to tie game at 5-5. Kyle Galloway (Mint Hill, N.C.) was thrown out on the play and another out in the next at-bat brought Gardner-Webb's bats to the plate.

The Blue Hose hoped to hold the Runnin' Bulldogs scoreless and force extra innings, but Gardner-Webb put three baserunners on and Daniel Merck ended the game with an RBI single, giving Gardner-Webb a 6-5 win.

Gardner-Webb jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning, beginning with two singles that came in on a Jake Watts double.

The Blue Hose cut the lead in half in the next inning, clawing back within one. Brandon Paul (Augusta, Ga.) singled the left side to reach first and moved to second on a Gabe Grammer (Irmo, S.C.). After a flyout, Galloway lined a 1-0 pitch to right center to plate Paul and bring PC closer, 2-1.

Neither team would score again until the fifth inning, when Zebedis brought in three on his team-leading 10^th home run of the season.

Andrew Williams (Augusta, Ga.) knocked a leadoff double to left field before Hite beat out a bunt to third base to put two on with nobody out. The play set the table for Zebedis to drive a ball deep over the left field fence, a three-run shot that handed the Blue Hose a 4-2 lead.

The Runnin' Bulldogs answered with a home run of its own in the bottom of the sixth, however, tying the game on a Brad Collins two-run homer to centerfield.

Gardner-Webb manufactured a run in the eighth, taking advantage of two PC errors to move a runner to third before a single put the home side in front, 5-4.

Game One

Five runs in the second and third innings gave PC the lead in Saturday's opening game, but they wouldn't hold up against three Gardner-Webb home runs in the first three frames.

Zebedis and Nate Horton (Spartanburg, S.C.) each posted two hits and drove in two runs. Hite added a hit and an RBI as well.

Bud Jeter (Columbia, S.C.) took the loss, moving to 4-5 on the year. Conner Scarborough earned the win for Gardner-Webb.

After falling behind 2-0 in the first inning on a two-run home run, PC responded by scoring three in the second to take a one-run lead.

A walk and two hit batters loaded the bases for Hite and the leftfielder took a pitch off of the body himself, bringing in a run and keeping the bases full of Blue Hose. Zebedis brought two more home by doubling to left field and putting PC ahead, 3-2.

Gardner-Webb used a solo home run in bottom of the frame to pull even but a 6-4-3 double play helped ensure the scoring stopped there as the inning ended with both teams tied at 3-3.

The Blue Hose broke the tie thanks to one swing of Horton's bat in the top of the third. The senior smacked a 1-2 pitch over the right field wall to score Grammer as well, giving PC a 5-3 lead.

Unfortunately for PC, Gardner-Webb loaded the bases in the bottom of the third and Adam McFarland cleared them with a grand slam. The home run put Gardner-Webb in front, 7-5.

The Blue Hose could not solve Gardner-Webb's pitching over the remaining six innings as the Runnin' Bulldogs tacked on two more in the eighth to win, 9-5.