Tuesday, March 14
Athens, Ga.
6 p.m.
Mercer University
14-4
4
at
3
Georgia
7-10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
R
H
E
Mercer
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
4
10
0
Georgia
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
10
0
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Spear, Nick (4-0)
L: Shaefer Shepard (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Hagan, Ryan 1 ; Joe, Howard 1
RBI: Madden, Charlie 1 ; Hagan, Ryan 1 ; Joe, Howard 1 ; Meeder, Matt 1
SH: Hanson, Alex 1 ; Hagan, Ryan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Ware, Jackson 1 ; Hagan, Ryan 2 ; Moore, Adam 1
SB: Hanson, Alex 1 ; Ware, Jackson 1
Batting:
2B: Keegan McGovern 1 ; Michael Curry 1
RBI: Michael Curry 3
Base Running:
RUNS: Will Campbell 1 ; Keegan McGovern 2
SB: Tucker Maxwell 1 ; Cam Shepherd 1
CS: Tucker Maxwell 1
HBP: Cam Shepherd 1
Game Leaders
AB
4
R
2
H
3
RBI
1
AB
4
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
AB
4
R
0
H
1
RBI
1
Players Mentioned
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Photo by: Bill Hirsh
Joe Powers Mercer to 4-3 Win at Georgia in Extra Innings
3/14/2017 11:08:00 PM | Baseball
Redshirt-senior comes through with game-winning double in the 12th inning
ATHENS, Ga. – Howard Joe connected on a game-winning RBI-double in the 12th inning to vault Mercer past Georgia, 4-3, in a rollercoaster game Tuesday night at Foley Field.
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The win completed Mercer's season sweep of the Bulldogs and marked the fifth time in the last six head-to-head meetings that the Bears have walked away victorious. Mercer improved to 14-4 overall while Georgia dropped to 7-10.
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After Ryan Hagan drew a one-out walk in the 12th, Joe roped the go-ahead double down the left field line to plate Hagan from first base. Nick Spear (4-0) picked up the win on the mound as Mercer used three pitchers – Chase Burks, Robert Broom and Spear – over the 12 frames. Burks worked around a rocky first inning to toss a career-high 4.1 innings while Broom notched six strikeouts over four innings of two-hit relief.
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Mercer appeared to have the victory in hand three innings earlier when Charlie Madden drew a two-out bases-loaded walk that scored pinch runner Adam Moore from third base. However, Georgia responded with a RBI-double in the bottom of the ninth to equalize it and send the game to extra innings. Both teams traded a pair of runs in the bottom of the first and top of the second innings.
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PLAYER OF THE GAME
Fifth-year senior Howard Joe came through in the clutch with the game-winning hit to cap a well-rounded game by the Bears. Joe went 1-for-2 at the plate after checking into the game at first base in the bottom of the ninth after Hunter Bening was pulled for a pinch runner.
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Joe now has three doubles among his five total hits this season.
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STAT OF THE GAME
Twelve innings. After it took Mercer nine innings to earn a walk-off win over Georgia in Macon earlier this season and they played three frames more Tuesday night. It is the Bears' longest game of the 2017 season.
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COACH GIBSON'S TAKE
"Tonight was a great baseball game. I'm really proud of Chase Burks to get a big start up here. Our bullpen was phenomenal; you can't say enough about [Robert] Broom and Nick Spear. We were about to get one more [run]…I'm really happy for Howard Joe who came up with the big hit to score [Ryan] Hagan from first base.
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"This is a great win for us, our university and our program. The big thing is we're 4-0 in state [Georgia] and Georgia is a really good ball club that will win games this year. To come up here and win at their place, it says a lot about the kind of program we have."
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PITCHER'S OF RECORD
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The win completed Mercer's season sweep of the Bulldogs and marked the fifth time in the last six head-to-head meetings that the Bears have walked away victorious. Mercer improved to 14-4 overall while Georgia dropped to 7-10.
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After Ryan Hagan drew a one-out walk in the 12th, Joe roped the go-ahead double down the left field line to plate Hagan from first base. Nick Spear (4-0) picked up the win on the mound as Mercer used three pitchers – Chase Burks, Robert Broom and Spear – over the 12 frames. Burks worked around a rocky first inning to toss a career-high 4.1 innings while Broom notched six strikeouts over four innings of two-hit relief.
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Mercer appeared to have the victory in hand three innings earlier when Charlie Madden drew a two-out bases-loaded walk that scored pinch runner Adam Moore from third base. However, Georgia responded with a RBI-double in the bottom of the ninth to equalize it and send the game to extra innings. Both teams traded a pair of runs in the bottom of the first and top of the second innings.
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PLAYER OF THE GAME
Fifth-year senior Howard Joe came through in the clutch with the game-winning hit to cap a well-rounded game by the Bears. Joe went 1-for-2 at the plate after checking into the game at first base in the bottom of the ninth after Hunter Bening was pulled for a pinch runner.
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Joe now has three doubles among his five total hits this season.
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STAT OF THE GAME
Twelve innings. After it took Mercer nine innings to earn a walk-off win over Georgia in Macon earlier this season and they played three frames more Tuesday night. It is the Bears' longest game of the 2017 season.
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COACH GIBSON'S TAKE
"Tonight was a great baseball game. I'm really proud of Chase Burks to get a big start up here. Our bullpen was phenomenal; you can't say enough about [Robert] Broom and Nick Spear. We were about to get one more [run]…I'm really happy for Howard Joe who came up with the big hit to score [Ryan] Hagan from first base.
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"This is a great win for us, our university and our program. The big thing is we're 4-0 in state [Georgia] and Georgia is a really good ball club that will win games this year. To come up here and win at their place, it says a lot about the kind of program we have."
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PITCHER'S OF RECORD
- Win: Nick Spear, Mercer (4-0)
- Loss: Shaefer Shepard, Georgia (0-1)
- Mercer: 14-4
- Georgia: 7-10
- Mercer: At East Carolina, March 17-19 at Clark-LeClair Stadium (Greenville, N.C.)
- Georgia: Hosts Presbyterian, 4 p.m. March 15 at Foley Field (Athens, Ga.)
- Mercer improved to 3-0 when tied after the eighth inning this season.
- Ryan Hagan tied a career-high with three hits. It was his second multi-hit performance of the season.
- Hagan and Matt Meeder picked up one RBI apiece as they helped Mercer tie the game, 2-2, early on.
- Trey Truitt extended his on-base streak to 13 games with an intentional walk in the seventh.
- Tuesday marked Mercer's second extra-inning game and win of the season.
- Mercer notched 10 hits and nine walks collectively. Eight Bears had at least one hit.
For complete coverage of Mercer Baseball, please follow the Bears on social media at @MercerBaseball (Twitter), /MercerBaseball (Facebook) and @Mercer.Baseball (Instagram) or visit the official home of Mercer Athletics at MercerBears.com.
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