
Baseball
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (February 28, 2025) – The College of North Alabama baseball fell to the UAB Blazers at Younger Memorial Subject by a 4-1 closing on Friday. The Lions had 34 at-bats with solely two strikeouts, a season-low, however left eight runners on base.
The Lions began off sluggish on this one, usually an aggressor offensively early in video games. Within the first inning, the Blazers snagged a three-up and three-down inning.
UAB blazed early as beginning right-hander Brycen Parrish struck out the lead batter however walked the following. After that, two straight singles got here for the Blazers as they scored the opening run. One other Blazer single led to bases loaded and a sac fly from the following one up made it 2-0. A double to left discipline scored the third run of the inning, finalizing the primary 3-0.
North Alabama answered within the high of the sixth. Third baseman Jayden Sloan singled down the fitting aspect. Freshman Wes Walker double down the fitting discipline line to push Sloan all the way in which round for the rating to make it 3-1 earlier than the top of the inning.
Parrish continued to deal within the low-scoring 3-1 recreation. Within the backside of the fourth, UAB tripled to proper middle, however due to a floor and fly out the Lions stranded the runner to maintain their hopes alive.
From the underside of the second to the underside of the seventh, there have been a complete of 5 hits between the 2 groups. Each defenses supplied to stout protection to forestall anybody getting on base.
It wasn’t till the underside of the seventh when one other rating arrived. The senior right-handed pitcher Dylan Morrill got here in, in reduction of Parrish. A pop up and fly out helped Morrill with two fast outs, however the heavy hitter for the Blazers, Logan Braunschweig, homered to extend the result in 4-1.
The highest of the ninth noticed some motion for the Lions as they battled again. Walker reached on an error by the shortstop which obtained him to first. Senior Zak Majer pinch hit for RJ Sherwood the place he singled via the fitting aspect which put a second Lion on base. Nonetheless, a closing UNA batter grounded right into a double play resulting in the ultimate out of the sport.
The Lions had no errors on this recreation and recorded extra hits than the Blazers, eight to only their six. North Alabama solely recorded two strikeouts on the plate, the bottom of any recreation this season. The subsequent closest video games was the Military recreation on Feb. 14 the place the Lions had six strikeouts in 32 at-bats.
Sloan went 3-4 on the plate and the one North Alabama participant to have a number of hits on the day.
Lions held the Blazer’s large batter Braunschweig to 1-4 on the day as his season common is .412.
Pitchers of Report
W – Cole Cheatham (2-1)
L – Brycen Parrish (0-3)
S – Brendan Conner (3)
COMING UP NEXT
The Lions play recreation two of the collection tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Younger Memorial Subject.
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