CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Presbyterian College baseball team set a new Division I era record with its 25th win as the Blue Hose held onto an early lead for a 6-3 win at The Citadel on Tuesday evening.
PC improves to 25-27 on the year and will stay in Charleston to play a season-ending Big South series at Charleston Southern beginning on Thursday at 6 p.m. The Citadel falls to 23-27.
The Blue Hose reach the 25-win mark for the first time since 2004 and set a school record for wins as a Division I program (since 2008). Tuesday's victory also marks the seventh-straight midweek win for PC.
The Blue Hose rode a five-run first inning to the result, never trailing behind a two-run double from Jacob Midkiff (Rock Hill, S.C.), an AJ Priaulx (Warner Robins, Ga.) double and a Ryan Hedrick (High Point, N.C.) two-run home run.
David Sauer (Irmo, S.C.) pitched five innings of three-run ball and improved to 5-4. Russell Thompson (Alcolu, S.C.) threw 1.2 innings and allowed one hit with two strikeouts before Hayden Deal (Newton, N.C.) nailed down his third save with 2.1 scoreless innings. Deal struck out two as well and held the Bulldogs to one hit.
Peter Johnson (Seattle, Wash.) went 3-for-5. Jay Lizanich (Greer, S.C.), Cam McRae (Darlington, S.C.) and Midkiff each produced two hits.
Steven Hansen hit two solo home runs, cutting PC's lead to 5-2 in the second on the first dinger. PC scored its sixth run in the fourth inning, tallying a Johnson ingle and a Lizanich double before an error gave PC a 6-2 lead.
Hansen's second home run pulled the Bulldogs within three, but the Blue Hose pitching and defense shut out The Citadel for the rest of the way for the win.
Hedrick posted his 11th multiple-RBI game in the game, tying Lizanich for the team lead. Midkiff ran his reached base streak to 19 straight games and extended his hitting streak to 11 games.
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Presbyterian College 500 100 000 - 6 11 1 (25-27)
The Citadel......... 011 100 000 - 3 10 4 (23-27)
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Pitchers: Presbyterian College - SAUER, David; THOMPSON, Russell(6); DEAL, Hayden(7) and
McRAE, Cam; BURT, Patrick. The Citadel - Livingston; Lavery(1); Connell(3); J. Watcher(5);
Sherrill(7); Mason(8); Hunter(9) and Kilgallen.
Win-SAUER, David(5-4) Save-DEAL, Hayden(3) Loss-Livingston(1-3) T-2:56 A-288
HR PC - HEDRICK, Ryan (4).
HR CIT - Hansen 2 (4).
Weather: 84 and sunny
