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Debo Throws 04152017
11
Winner UNC Pembroke UNCP 29-11, 12-9 PBC
5
Flagler FLG 26-18, 12-8 PBC
Winner
UNC Pembroke UNCP
29-11, 12-9 PBC
11
Final
5
Flagler FLG
26-18, 12-8 PBC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UNC Pembroke UNCP 4 0 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 11 14 1
Flagler FLG 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 8 0

W: Buffkin, Hayden (1-0) L: Luke Cooksey (3-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Rallies Late To Clinch Series At Flagler

Related: Baseball Too Much For Flagler In Series Opener

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Home-standing Flagler battled back from a pair of deficits in the first five innings, but Stibel Aleman Saba's two-run single with one out in the sixth gave the UNC Pembroke baseball team the lead for good as the Braves clinched their weekend series at Flagler with an 11-5 win over the Saints on Saturday afternoon at Drysdale Field.
 
It is the 10th series win of the season for the Black & Gold (29-11, 12-8 PBC) who have now won eight-straight games and 13 of their last 15 outings. It is the fifth loss in the last six home outings for the Saints (25-18, 12-8) who fell to 7-16 all-time in the series with the Braves.
 
Nick Debo hit his team-leading 10th home run of the season and scored three times on a 3-for-5 day at the plate to pace UNCP, while Roberto Rivera singled three times and scored twice on a 3-for-4 hitting line. Ethan Baucom (2-for-4) registered a pair of hits for the visitors as well.
 
Three players recorded a pair of hits for Flagler, including Ethan Crout who doubled and scored twice on a 2-for-5 day at the plate. Cole Ondrejka (2-for-4) and Igor Baez (2-for-5) turned in a pair of hits as well.
 
Reliever Hayden Buffkin (1-0) needed just 11 pitches to grab his first win in the Black & Gold, collecting the final out in the bottom of the fifth before giving way to Dale Masterson in the middle of the sixth. Masterson struck out one and allowed just one hit over three scoreless innings of work, but was not awarded a decision.
 
Luke Cooksey (3-2) yielded five earned runs on eight hits in five innings of relief work to take the loss for the hosts. He also struck out four.
 
The Braves struck for four runs in the first to grab the momentum early, but Flagler got a 3-run homer from Jake Hathaway in the second, as well as a RBI single from Baez in the third, to knot things back up. Debo hit a solo homer to lead off the fourth and give the lead back to the Braves, but Baez hit a game-tying RBI single up the middle in the fifth to even things back up again.
 
Aleman Saba's run-scoring single in the sixth would, inevitably, be all of the run support Masterson would need, but UNCP pushed across two more runs in the seventh, and then added a pair of insurance scores on River Ryan's two-run single in the eighth.
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