PENSACOLA, Fla.. (Feb. 6, 2015) - The Rollins
baseball team (2-2) suffered a 7-5 loss to the West Florida Argos
Friday evening in non-conference action.
In the Tars' 7-5 loss to West Florida, the team managed to tally
nine hits. Rightfielder Zach
Persky had two hits including his second home run of the
season. Centerfielder Peter
Nicoletto and designated hitter Blake
Hutton also had two hits on the night.
Matt
Hendricks suffered his first loss in 4.0 innings of work. The
right-hander allowed five runs on four hits while walking five. Spencer
Mumford finished the rest of the game working 4.0 innings and
allowing two runs on four hits while striking out five.
The Tars outhit the Argos 9-8 while Rollins had two errors to
West Florida's three on the night.
West Florida began the bottom of the second drawing a walk and
having a hit batter advance the lead-runner to second. The Argos
scored four runs on two singles opening the game up.
Rollins quickly answered in the top of the third as Persky came
to the plate and hit a two-run homerun to cut the UWF lead in half,
4-2. Peter
Nicoletto then tripled and scored on a Philip
Burket single as the Tars scored three runs on three hits.
The Argos capped off the bottom of the fifth with one run and
tallied two more in the sixth to lead 7-3.
Mike
Purcell began the ninth inning with a single as Zach
Persky loaded the bases with a single to give Rollins a chance
to eventually tie the game. Christian
Coburn grounded out to the third baseman, scoring Purcell. Carlos
Garmendia reached on the second error of the inning by West
Florida as Chris Corbett scored to cut the UWF lead to 7-5. Grant
Ashline pitch hit for the Tars and grounded out in a fielder's
choice to end the game as Rollins ended the ninth with two runs on
two hits.
The Tars left eight men on base, while UWF left seven on.
Rollins (2-2) faces Flagler from Pensacola, Saturday, Feb. 7 at
12 p.m.
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