From Emory University Athletics
The Emory University Baseball Team, ranked second in Division
III, earned a pair of come-from-behind wins on Friday night against
Millsaps College and 11th-ranked Webster University to
improve to 5-0 for the 2015 campaign.
In the early game, Emory utilized a six-run seventh inning to
overcome host Millsaps College by a final score of 7-5.
Senior Connor Dillman picked up the win to improve to
2-0, while sophomore Kyle Monk pitched the final three
innings to earn his second save of the year.
The Majors took a four-run lead in the third inning of the game,
walking three times to load the bases before scoring on a pair of
two-RBI singles. The Eagles cut the lead down to 4-1 with a
run in the top of the fifth, when junior Dylan
Eisner reached on an error, and later scored on a second
error.
In the seventh, the Eagles pulled within a run on a pair of pinch
hits, an RBI double from junior Ben Vizvary and a single
from sophomore Wilson Morgan. Senior Wes
Peacock would give Emory its first lead of the game with a
two-run double, and sophomore Philip Maldari added
another run with an RBI single. Peacock capped off the
scoring for the Eagles, coming across the plate on a throw down to
second on a steal by Maldari.
Keith Shumaker hit a solo home run in the seventh against Monk, but
would be unable to get any closer, despite getting the tying runs
on base with two outs on the ninth. The loss was the first of
the season for Millsaps, which dropped to 2-1.
Emory found itself behind 4-2 in the eighth inning of the late
contest against Webster, but a two-run home run from Cody
Wetmore, the first of his career, tied the game at 4-4, and a
fielding error by the Gorloks in the ninth scored Brett
Lake to give the Eagles the win. Sophomore Jackson
Weeg earned the win in relief for the Eagles to improve to 2-0
on the year.
Emory jumped out to an early lead in the game, when
junior Jeff Ronpirin reached on a catcher's interference
to start the game, eventually scoring on a double by Lake.
The Eagles added a second run on a groundout by senior Jordan
Selbach in the fourth to take a 2-0 lead.
Webster would even the game in the sixth on a two-RBI double from
Kyle Uhrich, and take advantage on a pair of Emory errors in the
eighth to take a 4-2 lead. However, Wetmore's dramatic home
run in the bottom of the inning would even the score heading into
the ninth.
Weeg would work around a leadoff double to pitch a scoreless top of
the ninth. Lake, who finished the game four-for-five, led off
the bottom of the frame with a base hit, and it appeared he would
be stranded there to send the game into extra innings.
However, on a windy night, a Wetmore fly ball to deep right field
was misplayed by the Webster outfielder, allowing Lake to score the
game-winning run from first, and give the Eagles the walk-off
win.
Emory's 5-0 start is just the sixth in school history, and the
first since the 2007 campaign.