WILSON, N.C. – The King University baseball team fell to Mount Olive on Thursday evening in their second game of the Conference Carolinas tournament. A seven-run fifth inning propelled the Trojans to the 13-4 victory.
THE BASICS: Mount Olive 13, King 4
LOCATION: Fleming Stadium; Wilson, N.C.
RECORDS: King 14-23, 11-20 Conference Carolinas; Mount Olive 33-8, 27-5 Conference Carolinas
TIME OF GAME: 2:57
KING HIGHLIGHTS
- Austin Meyer led the Tornado by driving in two runs on the day. He registered a pair of hits and scored one time.
- David Carnicella tallied two hits and also drove in a run.
- Junior Renwick also recorded a pair of hits in the contest.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Reed Parris had an ideal start to the game, retiring the first three King batters with swinging strikeouts.
- Jake DeLisi answered back by giving up no hits in the bottom half of the first inning.
- The Trojans opened the scoring after plating two runs in the second. Alan Alonso brought in Jack Casbarro following a single to center field.
- Alonso then touched the plate after Dusty Baker roped a double down the left field line.
- After Mount Olive added another run to make the score 3-0, King fired back with two runs in the top of the fourth.
- Meyer circled the pillows on a two-run shot that flirted with the foul pole in left field, also scoring Renwick.
- A bases-clearing single from Blake McLean drove in two runs to regain the Trojans' three-run advantage, this time at 5-2.
- A solo bomb from Carnicella brought King back to within two runs but that was the closest the Tornado would come the rest of the way.
- Three home runs in the fifth inning put the Trojans in command and they never looked back.
- Back-to-back home runs from Vito Patierno and Aaron Hedgepeth pushed Mount Olive's lead to five.
- Zack Smith poured it on as he laced a two-run shot over the left field wall, making it a 12-3 affair after five innings of play.
- Another round-tripper from Patierno gave the Trojans a double-digit advantage at 13-3, their largest lead of the day.
- King plated the last run of the game after Bennett McCann brought home Simon Desnoyer via a single to left field.
FOR THE FOES
- Patierno paced the Trojans with three hits. He droved in four runs while also scoring twice.
- McLean picked up one hit, bringing in a game-high three runs.
- The duo of Smith and Alonso had similar contributions as they both posted a pair of hits. They also brought two runs home and scored two as well.
OF RECORD
Winning Pitcher: Reed Parris (8-2) 6.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 10 SO
Losing Pitcher: Jake DeLisi (0-5) 4.0 IP, 10 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO
Save: Steven Worley (1) 3.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO
UP NEXT
- King will now face the No. 2 seed and fifteenth ranked Crusaders of North Greenville University in an elimination contest of the conference tournament. First pitch is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. tomorrow.
