BOCA RATON, Fla. (April 24, 2015) - Skip Kovar
went 4-for-5 while Nick
Breen and Chris Corbett each hit home runs, but the Tars fell
to No. 25 Lynn 13-8 Friday evening.
The Tars and Fighting Knights totaled 27 hits in the game.
Rollins falls to 19-26 and 4-15 in the Sunshine State Conference
while Lynn is now 31-11 and 12-7 on the year.
Matt Tulley got the start for the Tars throwing 4.2 innings and
allowing nine runs (seven earned) on nine hits. Spencer
Mumford came in for relief 3.1 innings and gave up four runs on
five hits.
Several Tars had two more more hits on the day as Breen, Michael
Dolan, Corbett and Kovar all had two hits or more. Coburn added
a two rbi double while Philip
Burket and Grant
Ashline each added one hit to give Rollins 13 on the day.
Lynn began the scoring in the first inning as the Fighting
Knights scored four runs on three hits to take a 4-0 early
lead.
The Tars answered with two runs on two hits in the second inning
as Christian
Coburn doubled to left field, scoring Dolan and Burket.
Lynn tallied one run in the bottom of the second to retake a 5-2
lead. Rollins picked up four runs in the top of the third inning as
Dolan advanced to second on a throwing error by the pitcher,
scoring Garmendia. Kovar singled to right field scoring Dolan. The
inning continued for Rollins as Corbett homered to left field, his
fourth on the year, scoring Kovar as Rollins took a 6-5 lead.
The Fighting Knights would tie the game at 6-6 as Lefran scored
on an error by first baseman Nick
Breen. In the fifth inning Rollins took the lead again in a
sea-saw battle as Coburn grounded out to the pitcher, scoring Kovar
to give Rollins the 7-6 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth, Lynn scored three runs on two hits
with one Tars error as the Fighting Knights claimed a 9-7
lead.
The Tars scored once more in the bottom of the sixth as Nick
Breen hit his first home run of the year to cut the Lynn lead
to 9-8.
Lynn scored three more runs in the sixth and one more in the
eighth, winning 13-8.
Rollins left 10 men on base while Lynn left seven men on
base.
The Tars visit the No. 25 Lynn Fighting Knights for a
double-header Saturday, April 25 at 12 p.m.
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