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Mobley Squeeze Play 05172018
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UNC Pembroke UNCP 38-14
8
Winner Columbus State CSU 41-12
UNC Pembroke UNCP
38-14
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Final
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Columbus State CSU
41-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UNC Pembroke UNCP 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 6 0
Columbus State CSU 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 X 8 6 1

W: Kolton Ingram (12-3) L: Burke, Anthony (9-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

No. 10 Columbus State Walks Past No. 18 Baseball In NCAA Opener

TIGERVILLE, S.C. – The 18th-ranked UNC Pembroke baseball team rallied for a pair of runs in the fifth to take its first lead of the ballgame, but 10th-ranked Columbus State used three walks and a clutch homer in the sixth to fuel an 8-2 win over the Braves in the NCAA Southeast Regional opener for both teams on Thursday evening.
 
The setback moved UNCP (38-14) into Saturday's elimination game against the loser of Friday's matchup between seventh-seeded Lincoln Memorial and third-seeded Belmont Abbey. The Cougars (41-12) will lock horns with top-seeded North Greenville (44-8) on Friday at Ashmore Park.
 
Jarratt Mobley walked twice and scored once on a 1-for-2 night at the plate, while Roberto Rivera doubled and drove in a run on a 1-for-5 hitting line. Four other Braves logged base hits as well.
 
The Cougars got home runs from both Chase Brown (1-for-4) and Austin Pharr (2-for-3, 3 RBI) to lead the offensive charge. Garett Kirkwood (1-for-3) hit a two-run single for CSU as well.
 
Anthony Burke (9-3) registered the fifth double-digit strikeout performance of his career, but was still tagged with the loss after surrendering five earned runs on four hits and as many walks in seven innings of work. The result snapped a personal five-game win streak for the senior as well. Kolton Ingram (12-3) struck out seven and allowed just five hits and  a pair of earned runs to grab the win for the Cougars.
 
Brown got the scoring started for both teams via a one-out solo blast in the bottom of the first but, after four relatively quiet innings, the Braves answered back. Consecutive one-out singles from Connor Grainger and Mobley in the fifth set the table for a ground-rule double from Rivera that knotted the game back up. A suicide squeeze bunt from Trevor Clemons minutes later, coupled with a nifty slide by Mobley, put the Braves out in front.
 
Burke needed just seven pitches to retire the side in the bottom of the fifth, but ran into some trouble in the sixth, walking the first two batters he faced in the frame, and then conceding the game-tying run on a pair of ill-timed balks. After issuing his third walk of the inning to Mason McClellan, Pharr hammered Burke's first offering of the next at-bat over the wall in right field to give the Cougars a 5-2 advantage.
 
UNCP had a golden opportunity to chop into its deficit in the eighth after loading the bases with its first four at-bats, but reliever Jalen Latta got Grainger to hit into an inning-ending double play and nix the threat. 
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