Purple-Gold Series Game Two Suspended, 2-2
October 06, 2010 | Baseball
Oct. 6, 2010
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l Game 2 Play-by-Play
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Six East Carolina's hurlers combined to strikeout 17 batters in game two of the Purple-Game World Series Wednesday night at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. The contest was suspended after 10 innings with the score knotted at two and will resume Thursday afternoon at 3:30 p.m.
Head Coach Billy Godwin stated the game will pick up in the 11th inning with the International Baseball Federation's (IBAF) tie-break rule in effect, where the start of each inning, base runners are placed on first and second with no outs.
Senior Brad Mincey toed the rubber to start the contest for the Gold working 4 2/3 innings where he allowed one run on three this with five punch outs. Joseph Hughes spelled Mincey in the fifth and tossed 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief with five strikeouts. Junior Patrick Somers was touched for a run (earned) on one hit in two-thirds of a frame, while freshman Drew Reynolds gave up two hits in 1 1/3 innings.
Fellow upperclassman Kevin Brandt took the hill for the Purple squad going 5 2/3 innings where he gave up two runs (one earned) on four hits with a walk and three strikeouts. Sophomore Jake Harris worked 4 1/3 scoreless innings with a pair of strikeouts in relief.
Gold took an early 1-0 lead in the second inning on a sac fly by Jonathan Holt. Austin Homan walked to start the frame then moved to second on Reynolds' sac bunt and took third on a Brandt wild pitch before crossing home on Holt's fly out to right field.
Holt scored on a Will Connerley fielding error to extend the Gold squads lead to 2-0. The freshman from Clemmons, N.C. singled through the left side to start the fifth and landed on third on Austin Blake's one-out single through the left side before coming home when Joshua Lovick reached on error.
Purple answered with a run in the bottom of the stanza pulling within one, 2-1. Connerley reached on a throwing error by Reynolds and moved to second on Kyle Pittman's sac bunt. After Hughes took the mound, Junior College Transfer MIchael Ussery singled through the left side plating Connerley.
Ussery notched his game-high third hit in the ninth tying the game at two. Pittman singled through the left side and moved up 90-feet when Timothy Younger was plunked by Reynolds setting up Ussery's game-tying hit to left field.
Offensively both teams combined for 16 hits (Gold-6, Purple-10) with four players collecting multiple base knocks (Ussery-3, Holt-2, Jack Reinheimer-2, John Wooten-2).
When play continues on Thursday, Tyler Joyner will take the mound for the Gold, while the Purple will counter with Seth Simmons.
Game three will start approximately 20 minutes after the conclusion of game two with Shawn Armstrong (Purple) and Mike Wright (Gold) on the bump.
