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Davenport University Athletics

DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY PANTHERS
Brandon Cable
Brandon Cable homered in the fifth
12
Winner Davenport DUB 1-0
3
Union (KY) UCB 0-1
Winner
Davenport DUB
1-0
12
Final
3
Union (KY) UCB
0-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Davenport DUB 0 0 0 1 1 6 0 0 4 12 9 3
Union (KY) UCB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 2

W: LaLumia, Luke (1-0) L: Matt Hasenbeck (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Panthers Win Season Opener 12-3 at Union (Ky.)

Corey Murphy earned 21st career win with five strikeouts and one earned run in seven innings

BARBOURVILLE, Ky. – The sixth-ranked Davenport baseball team opened its 2016 season in style on Friday (Feb. 5) with a 12-3 win over Union College. The Panthers gave up two runs in the bottom of the first inning and later tied the game up with single runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Zac Wilson scored on a RBI groundout by Zack Sardellitti to cut the lead to 2-1 in the fourth. Brandon Cable tied the game up in the fifth with a solo shot over the center field wall on a 2-0 pitch from Union starter Matt Hasenbeck.

Hasenbeck got into trouble in the top of the sixth inning as the Panthers knocked him out of the game after he loaded the bases with no outs. Connor Seymour and Wilson singled to start the six-run inning and Matt Priebe drew a walk to load the bases. Sardellitti reached on a fielding error by Bryan Mejia at first base to allow the go-ahead run to score. Brian Sobieski worked a walk to score Wilson for a 4-2 lead and that was it for Hasenbeck.

Trae Moseley inherited the jam and allowed four more runs to score in the inning. Nolan Page singled to shallow right for a RBI and a 5-2 lead. Cable drew a walk with the bases full for a 6-2 lead. Brandon Larkin-Guilfoyle also drew a free pass for a 7-2 lead. Page scored from third on a wild pitch with two outs to end the rally.

The Panthers made it 12 straight runs with four more in the top of the ninth. Priebe had a RBI double scoring Seymour who reached on an error and stole second. Sardellitti singled Priebe over to third and then Sobieski drilled a two-run double to left and took third on the throw home for an 11-2 lead. Sobieski scored the final run on a RBI groundout by Page.

Corey Murphy earned his 21st career win for the Panthers going seven innings and allowing six hits, one earned run and just one walk with five strikeouts. Michael Meade tossed the final two frames and yielded two hits and one unearned run. He struck out three and walked one. The two teams will play again tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the second game of a three-game series.

After the win, head coach Kevin Tidey commented "I was really happy with the way Murphy responded to the first inning miscues. He settled in and kept us in the game. It wasn't the offensive start we were looking for in the first few innings. We wasted a chance to do some damage in the first inning, but kept grinding out quality at-bats. Brandon Cable's home run was just the spark we needed to get things going."
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