Barons Win 1 of 3 Over Point
Courtesy of BPCU
The Brewton-Parker Christian University (BPCU) Barons baseball team played a 3-game series against the Skyhawks of Point University last week. They played the first game on Friday, and then played a double header on Saturday.
Game 1
The Brewton-Parker Christian University (BPCU) Barons baseball team dropped the series opener on the road against the Skyhawks of Point University on Friday, April 3. The Barons fell behind early and were unable to overcome the deficit, dropping the game 11-5.
Point set the tone in the first, taking a 2-0 lead, scoring on a wild pitch and an RBI groundout. The decisive stretch came one inning later. The Skyhawks would add a threerun double to right field during the surge, and later in the inning, a tworun homer as Point built a 9-0 lead after two innings.
Brewton-Parker began to chip away in the fourth. Jack Morris lined a two-run single to right to bring home a pair of runs and cut the deficit to 9-2. The Barons added another run in the sixth when Michael Son drove in Anthony Savarese with a sacrifice fly, trimming the margin to 10-3 after Point had answered with an RBI single in the fifth.
The Barons’ best late push came in the eighth. Raul Morales opened the inning with a double, one of his two doubles on the day, and Son followed with a two-run double that brought Brewton-Parker within 10-5. Point answered in the bottom half with an insurance run, ending any realistic comeback bid.
Son finished with three RBI for Brewton-Parker, while Morales went 2 for 4 with two doubles and a run scored. The Barons totaled six hits, including three doubles, and left five runners on base.
Game 2
The Brewton-Parker Christian University (BPCU) Barons baseball team split a conference doubleheader on the road on April 4, against the Skyhawks of Point University. The Barons took the early game, 9-6, in the seven-inning contest and lost game two, 18-17.
The Barons controlled the opener with an early surge and timely insurance. Michael Son doubled during a threerun first inning that gave Brewton-Parker a 3-0 lead, and the Barons never gave it back. Point answered with two runs in the bottom of the second to trim the margin to 3-2, but Brewton-Parker created separation again in the fifth. Jeremi Lara delivered the biggest swing of game one with a two-run home run as part of a three-run inning, stretching the lead to 6-2. The Skyhawks scored three times in the bottom of the fifth to make it a one-run game, and Brewton- Parker had to answer. Caleb Strott doubled home a run in the sixth as the Barons pushed the lead to 8-3, then added another insurance run in the seventh. Brewton-Parker finished with 13 hits, while Lara led the offense by going 2-for-2 with three RBI and a homer. Fred Diaz added two hits and an RBI.
Game 3
Game two of the double header turned into one of the day's most chaotic stretches. Point struck first with three runs in the opening inning, then Brewton-Parker erupted for nine runs in the second to seize control. Strott fueled that inning with two home runs, including a three-run shot, and the Barons built a 9-3 advantage. Even after Point answered with a five-run fourth to cut the deficit to 12-8, the Barons kept producing offense. The Barons scored three in the fourth, two in the fifth, and three more in the seventh, the last on Lara's three-run homer to left-center that made it 17-14. The Skyhawks rallied in the bottom of the ninth to walk off the game after manufacturing four runs off RBI singles to take the game 18-17 and win the series.
The Barons took on the Knights of Middle Georgia State University on Tuesday of this week after presstime in Cochran.
