Troy Pounds Jacksonville State to Complete Season Sweep

Tuesday, April 10

Troy, Ala.

6:00 p.m.

Troy University

Jacksonville State

Garrett McHenry

Photo by: Edward Fieder

Troy Pounds Jacksonville State to Complete Season Sweep

4/10/2012 9:52:00 PM | Baseball

By: Adam Prendergast

BOX SCORE

TROY, Ala. – Troy scored multiple runs in seven different innings and got a combined seven RBIs from Logan Pierce and Danny Collins in a 15-7 victory over Jacksonville State Tuesday night at Riddle-Pace Field to complete the home-and-home non-conference series sweep.

The Trojans scored three runs in the first inning and two runs in six straight frames from the third through the eighth inning. Pierce for 4-for-5 with three RBIs in the first game since his 20-game hit streak was snapped and Collins was 2-for-3 with four RBIs and a triple.

Jakob Nixon was 3-for-5 with three runs scored, Tyler Hannah was 2-for-5 with three runs scored and two RBIs and Jake Harrell was 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs and a home run. Seven of Troy's nine position starters recorded a hit in the game as the Trojans (14-18) out-hit the Gamecocks (12-19) 15-8.

Garrett McHenry (1-0) picked up his second career win with three innings of scoreless relief for the Trojans. He allowed just one hit and worked around three walks while striking out a pair. Ryan Brady struck out four in two scoreless innings. Troy used seven pitchers in the game.

Collins wasted no time putting the Trojans in the lead with his second triple of the season to score Hannah and Pierce in the first inning. After the Gamecocks tied the game with three runs on no hits in the second, Nixon led off the third with a double and scored on a Hannah single to put Troy in front for good. Collins added a sacrifice fly later in the frame.

Troy continued its barrage of two-run innings in the fourth as Harrell tattooed a 1-2 offering from Cody Ponder quickly out of the park in left field. Nixon added an RBI single later in the frame to score Clay Holcomb who singled and stole second.

The lead swelled to 9-3 in the fifth on an RBI single by Harrell and one of four Jacksonville State errors in the game allowed another run to score. Pierce lined a double to right-center in the sixth and Boone Shear, who drove in two runs in the game, added a sacrifice fly.

Pierce and Collins delivered RBIs in the seventh inning while Hannah and Pierce drove in a run each with two outs in the eighth.

Jacksonville State scored a run in the eighth as Kyle Bluestein hit a lead-off homer and then added three more in the ninth, two of which were unearned.

Ponder (0-2), one of seven pitchers used by Jacksonville State, was charged with the loss after allowing two runs – one earned – on two hits in two innings of work.

The Trojans will look to carry some momentum into from tonight's victory into its Sun Belt Conference series this weekend against Middle Tennessee at Riddle-Pace Field.