WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. – The Lyon College Scots baseball team swept a double-header from Williams Baptist on Saturday afternoon in American Midwest Conference action at Walnut Ridge.
The Scots (25-14, 9-3) defeated Williams Baptist 6-3 and 12-5 to win the series 3-0 and continue a seven-game winning streak.
In the first game, Williams Baptist led 2-0 until the fourth inning when Alec White doubled to center field to score Alan West. Jayden Cull singled to right field to score White and tie the game at 2-2.
Williams Baptist took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, but Troy Strack singled in Evan Hylek to tie the game at 3-3. Aaron Hurd hit a sacrifice grounder to third base to bring in Strack and West singled to score Joe Weatherford. Cull reached first on an error and White came in to make it 6-3.
Clayton Burke was the winning pitcher, going 6.2 innings and giving up three earned runs. Jordan Olivera got the save for Lyon College.
In the second game, Lyon College took the lead in the top of the second inning when Strack walked with the bases loaded and Cull scored.
Williams Baptist came back to take a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second inning until the Scots tied the game 2-2 when West doubled in Weatherford in the top of the fifth inning.
In the top of the seventh, West singled in Hurd, White singled in West, Haydn Finley doubled
in Logan Doody and White, Kaden Doan singled to center field to bring in Finley and Strack doubled in Doan for a 7-2 Scots lead.
Lyon College scored two more runs in the eighth when Doan singled in Zane Wallace and Chris Lara scored on a wild pitch to make it 9-2.
In the top of the ninth, C.C. Burrup hit an infield single to bring in Jesse McGonigal for a 10-3 Scots lead.
On Friday, the Scots baseball team scored 11 runs in the final three innings, including a 5-run top of the ninth inning, to defeat Williams Baptist 18-8 on Friday in American Midwest Conference play at Walnut Ridge.
The Scots improved to 23-14 overall and are 7-3 in the AMC. Williams Baptist drops to 17-18 with the loss.
After WBU had a 1-0 lead after one inning, Lyon College picked up a run when Logan Doody singled in Jayden Cull to tie the game in the top of the second inning.
Williams Baptist took a 3-1 lead entering the top of the third inning when West doubled to centerfield to score Aaron Hurd and Alec White singled to center to bring in West and tie the game 3-3.
Williams Baptist went up 5-3 in the bottom of the fourth inning, but in the top of the fifth, White scored on a passed ball, and Cull scored when Chris Lara reached on an error. Doody doubled in Lara and Joe Weatherford singled in Derek Underwood to put the Scots up 7-5.
Even though Williams Baptist scored in the sixth to cut the lead to one, the Scots tacked on four more runs to go up 11-5. Weatherford singled in Doody and Zach Ellis and Hurd hit a two-run homer that scored Weatherford.
In the bottom half of the seventh, Williams Baptist closed to within 11-8.
In the top of the eighth, Troy Strack hit a sacrifice grounder that scored Lara and Weatherford reached on an error that scored Lara for a 13-8 Scots lead.
In the ninth, Cull reached first on an error, and West scored on the play. Cull scored on a wild pitch, then Strack singled in Zach Ellis. Hurd singled in Kaden Doan and Strack for an 18-8 Scots advantage.
Image via Lyon College
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