Baseball shuts out King, 9-0
With a combined shutout by Jack Bembry, Graham Hooker, Deaglan Malally and Brian Baxa, the Milligan College baseball team won for the seventh time in the last nine games, posting a 9-0 victory over King University Monday afternoon at TVA Credit Union Ballpark.
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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King (TN)
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
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Milligan
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0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 9, 2020) – With a combined shutout by Jack Bembry, Graham Hooker, Deaglan Malally and Brian Baxa, the Milligan College baseball team won for the seventh time in the last nine games, posting a 9-0 victory over King University Monday afternoon at TVA Credit Union Ballpark.
The win moved Milligan to 14-8 on the season and marked the Buffs' second shutout of the season.
Milligan's pitching staff combined to scatter 10 hits and three walks. Bembry made the start and threw the first three innings, allowing only two hits. Hooker earned the winning decision after pitching the next three innings and allowing four hits and one walk with five strikeouts.
Malally, in the seventh inning, and Baxa, in the eighth and ninth innings, finished off King combining to strike out four.
All offense off the bats of Milligan
Milligan scored the deciding run in the bottom of the second when Kirby Smith led the inning off with a single, then Tyler Dimon, his pinch runner, came around to score on an Augustus Fraley one-out double. While it proved to be all the scoring the Buffs needed, they piled on three more runs in the fourth, one more run in the seventh and four more runs in the eighth.
Smith sent Chance Hall home on a double to right-center field with nobody out in the fourth, then Dimon scored again on a Fraley sacrifice fly. Ben Grable followed later in that inning with an RBI single, scoring Juan Vasquez who doubled in the previous at-bat.
The Buffs played small ball in the seventh as Will Oliver led off by reaching base via hit pitch, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch, then scored on a Blake Dutton sacrifice fly.
Vasquez doubled again in the eighth as part of Milligan's four-run frame to round out the scoring. It scored Richard Polinsky before Grable tripled home two runs with a liner down the right field line and scored a few moments later on a wild pitch.
In all, the Buffs posted 13 hits. Three came off the bat of Grable who went 3-for-4 with three RBI's and one run scored. Oliver (2-for-4), Dutton (2-for-4), Smith (2-for-5) and Vasquez (2-for-3) also earned multiple hits.
Up next
Milligan hosts Point University this weekend in a three-game Appalachian Athletic Conference set. Pending weather, the Buffs will play a single game Friday and a doubleheader Saturday.