Troy University Athletics
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Troy’s Bats Come Alive in Doubleheader Sweep over Holy Cross
2/19/2022 6:54:00 PM | Baseball
TROY, Ala. – Troy scored 34 runs and pounded out 36 hits, with 14 going for extra-bases, as the Trojans swept a doubleheader from Holy Cross Saturday afternoon at Riddle-Pace Field. Troy won the opener 23-3 and took the nightcap 11-3.
Easton Kirk finished the day 5-for-7 with three RBIs, and Clay Stearns was 5-for-8 with a pair of RBIs. Both Trojans hit two doubles and a home run in the doubleheader, while Colin Summerhill, Caleb Bartolero and Jesse Hall each had four hits on the day.
Troy (3-0) flashed the leather all over the diamond, turning a pair of key double plays in the opener before the outfield got into the action in game two with a trio of assists in the opening three innings of play.
On the mound, Troy's pitchers combined for 24 strikeouts over the 18 innings of action with just eight walks, four of which came in the first two innings of game one.
Game One – Troy 23, Holy Cross 3
Troy scored 23 unanswered runs paced by multi-hit games from six different players in the game one 23-3 route of Holy Cross (0-3). The Trojans' 23 runs were their most since a 26-run outburst in 2012 against Bethune-Cookman, and Troy's 23 hits were the most since game two of the 2014 season. Troy posted a crooked number in five different innings.
The Trojans belted eight extra-base hits in the win, including two from Kirk, who finished a triple shy of the cycle; his home run left the bat at 104 MPH and traveled 414 feet over the 30-foot wall in right-center field.
Hall had the big bat for the Trojans going 4-for-6 with three RBIs and three runs scored, while William Sullivan, Donovan Whibbs, Bartolero and Stearns all added a pair of hits. Stearns put Troy on the board with a 2-run blast in the second inning, his second straight season cranking a homer run on his first official at-bat of the season.
True freshman Brady Fuller (1-0) worked through some early jitters to earn his first collegiate win after allowing three runs on five hits in five innings of work. Fuller struck out six and walked four in his debut and induced a pair of key double plays early in the game.
Nate Wolf infused some early life in the Holy Cross dugout with a 3-run home run just three batters into the game after Fuller walked the first two Crusaders. That would be all the offense that Fuller and the Troy bullpen would yield – Kyle Gamble tossed three scoreless innings with six strikeouts and just one hit allowed, and Dillon Cook closed out a perfect ninth.
Tyler Mudd's (0-1) collegiate debut was not as kind as Fuller's, as he allowed 11 runs on nine hits over 4.1 innings of work in the losing effort for Holy Cross.
Game Two – Troy 11, Holy Cross 3
The Trojans quickly erased any thoughts of a Crusader split on Saturday with seven runs in the first two innings of the nightcap.
One of Holy Cross' three errors in the game put Troy on the board in the first, and then the Trojans exploded for six runs in the second inning.
Whibbs started the scoring outburst in the second with a two-run double into the right-center field gap and then came around to score a pitch later on a Rigsby Mosley single. Cameron Gray added a run with a grounder to second and a throwing error on the play plated two more Trojans.
Last night's hero, Colin Summerhill, hit a 106 MPH blast that traveled 418 feet over the left field wall for his second home run of the season. Gray followed with an RBI single two batters later, and Kirk capped Troy's scoring with a double down the line in right.
Sam Kirkpatrick and Connor Cooney each had three hits for the Crusaders; all three of Cooney's hits were two-baggers, while Nick Wang added a pair of doubles. Holy Cross scored twice in the third and added a single run in the seventh.
Bay Witcher (1-0) struck out seven and walked just one in six innings of work to pick up the win before turning it over to Noah Janney and Keaton Fuller to close it out.
Matt Remley (0-1) was roughed up to the tune of 11 runs – eight earned – on 12 hits in just four innings. Trevor Neff provided the Crusaders with four strong innings of relief, limiting Troy to just one hit and four zeros in the run column.
Up Next
Troy looks to complete the four-game sweep of Holy Cross Sunday at 12 p.m.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Fuller, Brady (1-0)
L: Mudd,Tyler (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Wolf,Nate 1
HR: Wolf,Nate 1
RBI: Wolf,Nate 3
Base Running:
RUNS: McElroy,Jake 1 ; Kirkpatrick,Sam 1 ; Wolf,Nate 1
Batting:
2B: Hartsfield, Hudson 1 ; Leonard, Trey 1 ; Schrepf, Brandon 1 ; Kirk, Easton 1 ; Whibbs, Donovan 1
3B: Summerhill, Colin 1
HR: Stearns, Clay 1 ; Kirk, Easton 1
RBI: Mosley, Rigsby 2 ; Summerhill, Colin 1 ; Bartolero, Caleb 1 ; Kelley, Justin 1 ; Gray, Cameron 2 ; Stearns, Clay 2 ; Leonard, Trey 2 ; Schrepf, Brandon 1 ; Hall, Jesse 3 ; Kirk, Easton 2 ; Whibbs, Donovan 2
SF: Mosley, Rigsby 1 ; Gray, Cameron 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Mosley, Rigsby 1 ; Hartsfield, Hudson 2 ; Summerhill, Colin 1 ; Johnson, Seth 2 ; Bartolero, Caleb 2 ; Kelley, Justin 2 ; Sullivan, William 3 ; Gray, Cameron 1 ; Stearns, Clay 2 ; Leonard, Trey 1 ; Hall, Jesse 3 ; Kirk, Easton 2 ; Whibbs, Donovan 1
HBP: Johnson, Seth 1 ; Stearns, Clay 1
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