(DEMOREST, Ga.) – Heading into the top of the sixth inning Saturday afternoon, the Wilmington College baseball team found themselves clinging to a 1-0 lead over Randolph-Macon College. Zach Shepherd threw four great innings followed by a solid inning of relief from Kaleb Stines to get them to this point. Unfortunately, the Yellow Jackets plated four runs in the following two innings and the Quakers couldn't complete the comeback in a 4-3 loss Saturday afternoon. Wilmington will finish up their Georgia trip tomorrow against host school Piedmont University.
Neither team scored a run until the bottom of the fifth inning. The Quakers had runners in scoring position in the first and fourth innings but couldn't score any runs. The Yellow Jackets had runners in scoring position in four out of the five innings, but the Wilmington defense did a great job of keeping them off the board.
The Quakers made two outs to begin the bottom of the fifth before beginning a two-out rally. J.C. Calhoun walked and stole second before Evan Kelsey reached on an error, which brought Calhoun to third base. Dominic Depa came up with a clutch hit to plate Calhoun and give Wilmington a 1-0 lead.
Randolph-Macon scored four unanswered runs to take a 4-1 lead. In the bottom of the eighth, Wilmington scored two runs. Kelsey reached on an error to start the inning and advanced on a wild pitch before Depa hit a triple to bring Kelsey home and cut it to 4-2. Later in the inning, Kyle Jennings brought Depa to the plate on a sacrifice fly to make it a 4-3 contest. The Quakers had a baserunner in the final frame but couldn't bring him in to tie the game in the loss.
Notables
- Dominic Depa led Wilmington with three hits in the game and two RBI.
- Kyle Jennings provided the other RBI for the Quakers.
- A pair of Quakers walked in the game.
- Zach Shepherd struck out five hitters over four innings.
- JP Donelan had three strikeouts over two innings of relief work.
What's Up Next
The Quakers battle the Piedmont University Lions tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 P.M. in their final game in Demorest, Georgia.
