Sunday, June 10, 2018

Lexington County Blowfish 5 Savannah Bananas 4

The Savannah Bananas (6-1) in first place in the CPL West division, played the Lexington County Blowfish(3-5) Saturday evening in front of a sold out crowd 4,462(Bananas owner Jesse Cole reports this is an attendance record).
Trailing by 4 runs going into the top of the 9th, Lexington rallied for 5 runs and won the game 5-4,
Savannah scored a run in the 2nd inning when Trenton Nash,2b(Middle Georgia State) walked, stole second and scored on a single by catcher Jacob Sullivan(South Florida).
In the second inning Savannah scored a run. Yorvis Torrealba,lf(Central Florida) singled and later scored on a single by Nash.
The Bananas scored 2 runs in their 4th inning to close out their scoring. A double by Sullivan scored the first run and Sullivan scored on a single by Clay Dungen,ss(Indiana State).
It was a big 9th inning rally for the Blowfish. With the bases loaded,  pinch hitter Hunter Lipscomb(Winthrop) drove in the first run with a single. A single byPatrick Price2b(Gardner-Webb) drove in 2 runs. Zachary Spivey,cf( Bethune-Cookman) drove in a run with a single. Aaron Adams,3b(College of Charleston) singled to drive in the final run.
Savannah had 11 hits for the game. Leading hitters: Sullivan was 4-for-4 with 2 RBI’s and a run scored. Dungen was 4-for-4 with 1 RBI. Nash was 2-for-4 with 1 RBI.
Starting Savannah pitcher Zach Brockman(Liberty) was superb pitching 6 shutouts innings, allowed 4 hits, 7K’s and 0 BB.
The next Savannah home game is on Wednesday(June 13th) again the Florence RedWolves.




                             Starting Savannah pitcher Zack Brockman pitched 6 shutout innings

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