Steamers Hangs on For Win In Game Two
June 21, 2012 - Coastal Plain League (Coastal Plain)
Edenton Steamers News Release
HAMPTON, VA - After dropping game one to the Pilots, the Steamers (15-5) came back and held on for a 3-2 win in game two over the Pilots (9-11-1) giving Joshua Branstetter his first win of the year and Jordan Egan picked up save number eight at War Memorial Stadium.
Starting game two for the Steamers, which was the originally scheduled game for the night of Thursday June 21st, was right-handed pitcher Joshua Branstetter (Delta State University). Right-handed pitcher Aaron Meyers made his first start for the Pilots.
Branstetter and Meyers both pitched scoreless baseball through three innings of the seven inning contest with each team picking up one hit against each starting pitcher.
Koby Kraemer (Indiana State University) hit his third home run of the season off of Meyers to give Edenton an early 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth.
Right-handed pitcher Jonathan Roberts came into the game in the fifth inning for the Pilots and promptly gave up three straight singles and one run. Wes Meadows (Otterbein University), who singled to begin the inning, scored on Michael Massi's (Mercer University) RBI single to make it 2-0 Steamers. DJ Johnson laid down a sacrifice bunt and then a wild pitch thrown by Meyers allowed Blaise Fernandez (George Mason University) to score and it was 3-0 Steamers.
Peninsula got on the board in the bottom of the fifth after a Tyler Shover leadoff double and an infield single from Dakari Cooke that put runners on first and third. Zac MacAneney hit into four-three double play that brought home Shover from third and made the score 3-1 Steamers.
Branstetter pitched five innings, allowing the one run on five hits; he walked three and struck out four. He departed in line for his first win of the season, up 3-1.
DJ Johnson came into the game after the Steamers did not score in the top of the sixth inning. Johnson gave up back-to-back singles to begin the inning. Andrew Amaro laid down a sacrifice bunt that moved up both runners 90 feet and Roberto Duran hit a sacrifice fly to right field that scored Gino Escalante to make it 3-2 Steamers.
Edenton failed to score in the top of the seventh and right-handed pitcher Jordan Egan (Norfolk State University) came into the game to close out the 3-2 Steamer victory. Egan made quick work of the Pilots in the bottom of the seventh, retiring them in order with two strikeouts. Egan picked up save number eight on the season, Branstetter improved to 1-1 and Meyers fell to 0-1.
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