GREENVILLE, S.C. – The Brevard College baseball team (3-9) earned its second victory in a row, dismantling Bob Jones (2-11) by a final of 11-2 on Tuesday afternoon at Conestee Park in Greenville, South Carolina.
BC, who led from the third-inning on, pulled away for with a five-run seventh inning.
Senior infielder
Frankie Vasquez led the way with a 3-for-4 performance at the plate, launching a solo home run.
Hayden Jennings and
Cale Oehler each went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI, while
Nico Bartolotti collected a pair of hits as well.
CP Pyle scored twice and stole a base, with Bartolotti, Jennings, and
Tyler Kelson also logging stolen bases.
Five different Tornados worked on the mound in a midweek bullpen day, with
Jordan Searcy (1-3) making the start and going three innings with two hits and a run allowed.
Jacob Thompson worked two scoreless frames, and
Jacob Wilde also worked two innings with a strikeout.
Kaden Tuten and
Matthew Evans were called on to work the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, with Evans logging a pair of K's.
Pyle led off the top of the first inning with a single, but was picked off on the basepaths. Jennings launched a home run that sailed over the left-field wall down the line to put BC up early, 1-0. Bob Jones was able to find an answer after a leadoff double, sacrifice bunt, and a sacrifice fly manufactured the Bruins' first run, tying things at one run apiece.
The Tornados were able to threaten with a pair on in the top of the second, but the runners were left stranded. The Bruins followed suit, stranding a pair aboard in the bottom half of the frame. BC's Oehler came through with two outs in the top of the third, drilling a two-RBI double that brought
Adam Newcomb and Pyle around to score as BC retook the lead, 3-1.
Each side traded zeros on the scoreboard until the top of the fifth, when Brevard capitalized on a leadoff double by Newcomb, with Jennings sending him home via an RBI single. The Tornados added to their advantage in the top of the sixth when Vasquez sent his first home run of 2025 out of the ballpark. The big fly marked the 11
th of Vasquez's career.
After Wilde put up a scoreless frame in the bottom of the sixth, BC exploded for a five-run top of the seventh, put in motion by a wild pitch that allowed Pyle to come across and score. Following three walks that loaded the bases,
Lucas Granata drew a bases-loaded walk to push BC's lead up to a six-run margin. Usher capped the frame off with a bases-clearing, three-RBI double that helped seal the contest in Brevard's favor.
Bob Jones scored once more in the bottom of the seventh on a bases-loaded HBP, but the Bruins were held off the scoreboard in the last two innings by BC's bullpen. Granata recorded his second RBI of the contest in the top of the ninth, plating Oehler, to wrap up Brevard's second-consecutive victory.
The Tornados return to action this weekend, as Brevard travels to Montgomery, Alabama for three total contests. Brevard first faces host Huntingdon on Friday at 4:30 p.m. ET before taking on MUW on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET. BC closes play in Alabama on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET against Millsaps.
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