KNOXVILLE, TN – No. 6 Walters State scored 16 runs and held Pellissippi State to just three hits on Tuesday afternoon, going on for a 16-5 win over the Panthers.
With the victory, the Senators improved to 36-6-1 overall.
Tyler Welch got the start on the mound for the Senators and threw three innings, allowing four runs, just one earned, on two hits. Rowan Park pitched the next inning, allowing one run on no hits while striking out one, and Reilly Byers threw a scoreless fifth. Byers struck out one.
After Byers, Brayden Blankenship (1-0) struck out one in a scoreless sixth before Matthew Porchas struck out one in the seventh to end things.
At the plate, Tyler Myatt went 3-3 with three RBIs and a stolen base while Kole Fenton had two hits, scored three runs and stole two bases. Carson Cabbage, Holden Pantier and Justin Bell drove in two runs each, as well.
The Senators got the scoring going in the top of the first as Myatt singled home Nate Conner and Cabbage singled in Myatt to make it 2-0. Pellissippi scored two in the second to tie the game but a wild pitch that scored Fenton and a bases-loaded walk to Cabbage in the top of the third gave the Senators a 4-2 lead.
Pellissippi State again answered back in the bottom of the third to tie the game at four, but Walters State broke the game open in the fifth with five runs. Those runs came on a sacrifice fly by Myatt that scored Fenton, a wild pitch that scored Conner, a wild pitch that scored Vogele and a two-RBI single by Bell to make it 9-4.
The Panthers scored one more time in the game, a run in the fifth, but the Senators scored five more runs in the sixth on two bases-loaded walks, a sacrifice fly by Pantier that scored Vogele, an RBI single by Walker Morgan and a wild pitch that scored Cabbage to make it 14-5.
The final two runs of the game came in the top of the seventh when a hit by pitch with the bases-loaded and a bases-loaded walk put the score at 16-5.
Up Next:
Walters State will travel to Jackson State on Friday. The doubleheader is set to begin at 1 pm ET.
