Eagles Lose Heartbreaker at #26 Methodist, 4-3
The Emory University baseball team suffered a heartbreaking
defeat in the bottom of the ninth inning on Saturday, losing 4-3 to
26th-ranked Methodist University in Fayetteville,
NC.
Junior third baseman Andrew Cohn led the Eagles in
the game with three hits, and four other Emory players picked up
two hits in the game. The Eagles totaled 12 hits in the game,
while holding the Monarchs to just six, the second lowest this
season by the Emory pitching staff.
Emory took a 1-0 lead in the second inning, when a one-out bases
loaded single from Gabe Shivers scored
Andrew Cohn for the first run of the game.
Emory starter Paul Schwendel would keep the
Monarchs off the board until the fifth inning, when Methodist
picked up an RBI double from Trey Such and a sacrifice fly from
Brian Halpin. However, the Eagles would answer right back in
the top of the sixth, scoring runs on singles from Shivers and
Ryan Jones to take a 3-2 lead.
Schwendel would leave with the lead after five and a third innings,
allowing just two runs on three hits, while scattering seven walks
and striking out three.
Emory senior Brian Cournoyer would enter the game
with one out and one on in the sixth inning, and quickly got two
more outs to end the frame. Cournoyer would escape trouble
with inning-ending double plays in both the seventh with the bases
loaded, and again with one and one out in the eighth, to protect
the one-run Emory lead.
However, Eagles’ closer Zeb Heidt entered
the game in the ninth inning, but issued a walk with one out, and
two more with two outs to load the bases. Senior Will
Gumm would then enter the game and give up the walk off
two-RBI double to Brian Goodwin to end the game. Heidt took
the loss for Emory, falling to 1-3 on the season.
Emory dropped to 14-17 with the loss, while Methodist improved to
23-8 with the win. Emory is now 0-5 in one run games this
season.
The Eagles will wrap up their two-game series with the Monarchs
tomorrow, as the two teams will face off in Fayetteville, NC at
2:00 PM.
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