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Zacchaeus Rasberry
Bennett Scarborough
9
Winner Presbyterian PC 21-21
6
Gardner-Webb GWU 29-22
Winner
Presbyterian PC
21-21
9
Final
6
Gardner-Webb GWU
29-22
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Presbyterian PC 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 3 9 14 1
Gardner-Webb GWU 0 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 6 10 1

W: Veach, Chris (2-0) L: CAMPBELL, Isaac (2-5)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Greg Hartlage

Blue Hose Punch Ticket to Conference Championship

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – The Presbyterian College baseball team used a four-run seventh and three-run ninth to propel them to the Ingles Big South Championship defeating Gardner-Webb 9-6 on Friday afternoon at Segra Stadium. Zacchaeus Rasberry connected on his 10th home run of the season and drove in five runs for the Blue Hose. 
 
FINAL SCORE: No. 4 Presbyterian 9, No. 3 Gardner-Webb 6
LOCATION: Segra Stadium (Fayetteville, N.C.) 
RECORDS: Presbyterian (21-21) | Gardner-Webb (29-22)
W: Chris Veach (2-0) | L: Isaac Campbell (2-5) 
 
NOTABLES
- Rasberry continued his torrid pace during the tournament on Friday with two hits including his 10th home run of the season and a career-high five runs driven in. 
- He has also reached base safely in 21 consecutive contests. 
- Rasberry is five-for-eight with two home runs and eight runs driven in during this tournament. 
- Toth totaled three hits including a pair of doubles which gives him a team-high 12 doubles on the season. He sits at .556 with five runs knocked in through PC's two victories. 
- Kyle Merkle and Kyle Decker each added a pair of hits in the win.
- Chris Veach earned his second win of the season in relief tossing 3.0 scoreless innings and recording three strikeouts. 
- PC will play for its first conference championship since 2017 when the Blue Hose fell in the title game to Radford. 
- The Blue Hose improved to 13-4 when outhitting opponents as PC totaled 14 hits on Friday afternoon.
- Presbyterian jumped to 15-6 in games scoring at least six runs this season. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED 
- Rasberry continued his hot streak in the championship with a two-run single in the third to open the Blue Hose scoring and give PC the 2-0 lead. 
- Gardner-Webb quickly answered with a pair of runs in the third to even the game at two. 
- The Runnin' Bulldogs gained the lead in the fourth with an RBI single to jump out in front by the score of 3-2. 
- In the sixth, GWU scored a pair of runs to extend the lead to 5-2.
- PC responded in the seventh with four runs off of an RBI single from Toth before a three-run shot from Rasberry to give Presbyterian a 6-5 lead. 
- The Runnin' Bulldogs tied the game at six in the seventh on a fielder's choice. 
- Presbyterian tacked on three runs in the ninth courtesy of an RBI double from Toth before a two-run single from Merkle helped secure Presbyterian's spot in Saturday's final. 
 
UP NEXT
- PC will await the winner of Gardner-Webb/Campbell in the Ingles Big South Championship on Saturday at noon on ESPNU. 
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