Tuesday, March 28
Macon, Ga.
6 p.m.
Mercer University
21-6
3
vs
11
Georgia Tech
14-9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
Georgia Tech
0
0
4
1
0
2
3
0
1
11
18
0
Mercer
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
3
5
1
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Ben Schniederjans (1-1)
L: Coulter, Kevin (2-2)
Batting:
2B: Wade Bailey 2 ; Coleman Poje 1 ; Chase Murray 1 ; Brandt Stallings 1
HR: Wade Bailey 1 ; Joey Bart 2
RBI: Wade Bailey 1 ; Joey Bart 5 ; Kyle McCann 1 ; Chase Murray 1 ; Austin Wilhite 2
SH: Wade Bailey 1 ; Keenan Innis 1
SF: Kyle McCann 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Trevor Craport 2 ; Wade Bailey 4 ; Joey Bart 3 ; Kel Johnson 1 ; Chase Murray 1
HBP: Kel Johnson 1
Batting:
2B: Lingo, Drew 1 ; Upton, Ben 1 ; Meeder, Matt 1
HR: Crotty, Alex 1
RBI: Bening, Hunter 1 ; Crotty, Alex 2
SH: Ware, Jackson 1
SF: Bening, Hunter 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Madden, Charlie 1 ; Moore, Adam 1 ; Crotty, Alex 1
HBP: Madden, Charlie 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
ph/rf
AB
2
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
3b/2b
AB
4
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
AB
1
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
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Photo by: Bill Hirsh
Mercer Falters to Georgia Tech, 11-3, at Home
3/28/2017 10:03:00 PM | Baseball
16 Bears see the field in mid-week defeat
MACON, Ga. – A season-high 18 hits by Georgia Tech powered the visiting Yellow Jackets to an 11-3 victory over Mercer Tuesday night at OrthoGeorgia Park.
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A full house of 2,267 attendees were on hand for the game despite the Bears' second straight loss, which dropped them to 21-6 overall and 14-3 on their home turf. Georgia Tech improved to 14-9 with the win.
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Mercer claimed a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a sacrifice fly by Hunter Bening that scored Charlie Madden. It was all Yellow Jackets from there on, however, as they used a four-run third inning and three-run seventh inning to win the first of two meetings between the programs this season.
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Six Bears took the mound including starter Kevin Coulter, who took the loss and moved to 2-2. A plethora of late-game substitutions led to Mercer using 16 position players in total. Freshman Alex Crotty hit his first career home run on the first pitch he saw in a pinch-hit at bat in the seventh.
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PLAYER OF THE GAME
While Crotty's late home run did not change the outcome of Tuesday's game, it provided a jolt to a quiet Mercer offense. The freshman is batting .320 with eight hits in 24 at bats this season.
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STAT OF THE GAME
Mercer's pitching staff struck out 14 Georgia Tech batters. Robert Broom and Nick Spear had three apiece while each pitcher notched at least one.
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COACH GIBSON'S TAKE
"Georgia Tech beat us in all phases tonight. That's a good club but we'll have another chance to play them this season. They were just really good.
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"We've got to raise our level of play moving forward…we got off to a good start but teams are going to give us their best from now on. ETSU played us hard, Georgia Tech played us hard and Furman will be good this weekend."
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PITCHER'S OF RECORD
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A full house of 2,267 attendees were on hand for the game despite the Bears' second straight loss, which dropped them to 21-6 overall and 14-3 on their home turf. Georgia Tech improved to 14-9 with the win.
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Mercer claimed a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a sacrifice fly by Hunter Bening that scored Charlie Madden. It was all Yellow Jackets from there on, however, as they used a four-run third inning and three-run seventh inning to win the first of two meetings between the programs this season.
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Six Bears took the mound including starter Kevin Coulter, who took the loss and moved to 2-2. A plethora of late-game substitutions led to Mercer using 16 position players in total. Freshman Alex Crotty hit his first career home run on the first pitch he saw in a pinch-hit at bat in the seventh.
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PLAYER OF THE GAME
While Crotty's late home run did not change the outcome of Tuesday's game, it provided a jolt to a quiet Mercer offense. The freshman is batting .320 with eight hits in 24 at bats this season.
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STAT OF THE GAME
Mercer's pitching staff struck out 14 Georgia Tech batters. Robert Broom and Nick Spear had three apiece while each pitcher notched at least one.
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COACH GIBSON'S TAKE
"Georgia Tech beat us in all phases tonight. That's a good club but we'll have another chance to play them this season. They were just really good.
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"We've got to raise our level of play moving forward…we got off to a good start but teams are going to give us their best from now on. ETSU played us hard, Georgia Tech played us hard and Furman will be good this weekend."
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PITCHER'S OF RECORD
- Win: Ben Schniederjans, Georgia Tech (1-1)
- Loss: Kevin Coulter, Mercer (2-2)
- Mercer: 21-6
- Georgia Tech: 14-9
- Mercer: At Furman, 6 p.m., March 31, in Greenville, South Carolina
- Georgia Tech: vs. Clemson at 6 p.m., March 31, in Atlanta, Georgia
- Mercer is 4-1 against in-state opponents this season.
- This is only the second time the Bears have dropped two consecutive games this season.
- Crotty, Drew Lingo and Ben Upton all notched extra-base hits in their pinch-hit appearances, the latter two of which were doubles.
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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