The Lipscomb Bisons baseball team took the series over the Mercer Bears this weekend and now sits in first place in the Atlantic Sun conference.
After a rain delay on Friday, Lipscomb came out on top 4-2.
Mercer struck first with a solo home run by Sasha LaGarde but the Bisons punched back and were winning 2-1 after three innings.
Head Coach Jeff Forehand told Lipscomb Athletics that Friday’s game was just a good game between two good teams.
“Luckily for us we got some fortunate hits and scored when we had runners in scoring position,” Forehand said. “They made a mistake that gave us one run but it was just a good ball game all the way around.”
Saturday’s game resulted in a 2-1 victory for the Bisons to give them the series win. Junior John Allison earned a lead-off walk in first inning and would later score on a sacrifice fly from senior Drew Adams. Junior Grant Massey would also score in the first inning capping off the scoring for the Bisons for the rest of the game.
“It was a great first inning,” Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand said. “Drew and [Austin] Sistrunk had a couple of clutch, situational at-bats for us to get those runs on the board early. But we have to give Mercer credit because they pitched really well after that point to hold us in check. Both teams made some big plays throughout the game, but we were able to hold on for the win.”
Redshirt junior pitcher Hunter Brothers got the win giving up one run on two hits. Massey went 3-for-4 at the plate and extended his hit streak to 10 games.
Mercer’s pitching shutout the Bisons on Sunday. Bears freshman Kyle Lewis led off the sixth with a single and scored on a squeeze bunt from junior Chesny Young. Mercer scored another run in the ninth.
Lipscomb only had two hits from Adam Lee and Sistrunk. Sophomore pitcher Denton Norman got the loss putting his record at 5-2.
Lipscomb improved to 24-13 overall and 12-3 in the A-Sun after the weekend. Mercer finished 28-10 overall and is now 11-4 in the A-Sun.
Because of weather advisories the Bisons will return to Dugan Field on Tuesday to face Belmont at 4 p.m. instead of the originally scheduled time of 6 p.m.
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