All five runs scored with two outs, and the teams combined for 20 hits in the seven-inning contest. Liam Sullivan started for the Black Team and went the first two innings. Then Kyle Greenler, DJ Radtke and Michael Polk combined to throw five innings of shutout relief with seven strikeouts for the win. Sullivan got the win while Polk threw one pitch in the seventh for a save.
The three-game series continues Saturday with first pitch at 2 p.m. Admission is free.
Game One Highlights
*Sophomore Cole Wagner (2-for-3, 2 RBI) put the Black team in front with a two-out, two-run double in the first.
*Graduate Will David (2-for-2, BB) gave the Black team a 3-0 lead in the first with a two-out, RBI-single.
*Junior Parks Harber smashed a solo home run for the Red team in the first that had an exit velocity of 106 miles per hour and traveled 414 feet per TrackMan.
*Senior RHP Nolan Crisp and junior LHPs Liam Sullivan and Jaden Woods made their fall debut.
*Sullivan struck out four of the final five batters he faced in going two innings.
*Woods notched a strikeout as the Black team left the bases loaded in the second and ended up tossing 2.1 scoreless innings with a walk and four strikeouts.
*Graduate shortstop Mason LaPlante made a sliding catch on a sinking liner for the final out of the third as the Red team left the bases loaded.
*Graduate Kyle Greenler pitched two scoreless innings, scattered four hits and struck out four.
*Redshirt junior Bryce Melear tossed three scoreless innings, allowed four hits and fanned three.
*With two outs in the sixth, freshman Leighton Finley (2-for-3, RBI) made it 3-2 with an RBI-single as junior Sebastian Murillo scored after reaching on a leadoff walk.
*In the sixth, junior Garrett Spikes picked up an outfield assist as he threw out freshman Jonathan Little trying to stretch a single into a double on a ball hit down the right field line.
*Senior Michael Polk threw one pitch for a save, retiring Harber with one on in the seventh.
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