Game 1 Boxscore | Game 2 Boxscore
GARDEN CITY, Ga. – The Savannah College of Art and Design baseball team used some late-inning heroics to sweep a doubleheader from Shawnee State University Saturday (March 6) afternoon in Chain Field.
The Bees scored twice in the bottom of the seventh in the opener to take a 2-1 decision in the opener before scoring twice in the sixth in the nightcap to pull out a 5-4 win.
SCAD won its sixth consecutive game and improved to 12-7 while the Bears fell to 6-4. The two teams wrap up their four-game series Sunday (March 7) with a noon doubleheader at Chain.
The Bears took a 1-0 lead in the third inning of game one. Quentin Everman led off by being hit by a pitch and moved to third on Danny Gesick’s one-out single. Everman later scored on a Brian Ramey single.
It would stay that way until the Bees rallied in their final at bat. Pinch hitter
Michael Imbriale drew a one-out walk and came around to tie the game at 1 on Gesick’s error on
Kelvin Goodson’s single to right. Goodson advanced to third to play and would score the winning run on a wild pitch from reliever Adam Wamsley.
Stephen Shackleford (4-1) went the distance for the Bees as he struck out seven and walked just one in seven innings of work.
Shawnee State took a 2-0 lead in the second inning of game two as the Bears scored two unearned runs on two SCAD errors. The Bees tied the game at 2 in their half of the inning as
Mark Stewart Jr. doubled home two runs.
SCAD took a 3-2 lead in the third on
Patrick Braswell’s RBI single. The Bears retook the lead at 4-3 as they scored two more in the fourth as SCAD committed another costly error. The Bees again rallied in their final at bat. SCAD tied the game at 4 on pinch hitter
Kyle DeYoung’s double and Goodson drove in the winning run with a single.
Ty Donaldson (2-0) pitched 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief and struck out four to earn the win.