The Lipscomb baseball team rallied in the ninth but fell short as it lost to the Vanderbilt Commodores 4-3 Tuesday night.
Vanderbilt scored four runs in the bottom of the third. The big hit for the Commodores came from sophomore right fielder Jeren Kendall on a two-run RBI double. Vanderbilt’s other runs came from an RBI single and an error made in the inning.
Lipscomb scored two runs in the top of the sixth, with the first run coming from a solo home run by junior Hunter Hanks.
“Hanks got in front of a changeup and was able to put a great swing on the ball,” said Lipscomb baseball head coach Jeff Forehand. “He was able to crack the lid on a scoring drought at the beginning of the game. It was a huge home run that started our scoring.”
Lipscomb’s other two runs came from two RBI groundouts by freshman Tevin Symonette and sophomore Lee Solomon.
The Bisons’ bullpen combination of freshman Alex Dorso and junior John Pryor gave up no runs for the rest of the game.
“We finally got from our bullpen what we knew they were capable of doing tonight,” Forehand said. “John and Alex both had great outings. If we can get more consistency from our bullpen, like we did tonight, we should be able to have a great season.”
Lipscomb will be at Dugan Field this weekend as it plays a three-game series against USC Upstate.
“I hope we can build off of how we played in this game,” Forehand said. “We made a couple of mistakes in the third inning but were able to battle back. I thought we had a pretty good game, and I am looking forward to conference play.”
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