Baseball routs Concordia at home
The baseball team dominated Concordia College Tuesday in its fourth straight home game, winning 12-2.
Junior designated hitter Billy Anderson displayed some speed on the basepaths. He beat out a ground ball to the shortstop for his first hit in the top of the first inning, before stealing second base and scoring on a single by freshman left fielder Sam Russell for the first run of the game.
"I was just trying to get on base," Anderson said. "I haven't been doing so well lately and I just needed to get my hands around faster."
Anderson scored his second run in the bottom of the third inning to break a one-run tie. The run was scored after a single by junior third baseman Dale Cornstubble. Anderson finished the game 3-for-3 with three runs and one RBI.
The Chippewas also showed superb defensive play in the beginning of the game. Tom Howard made a diving stop in the top of the first inning to end the inning. He made another diving catch to lead off the top of the third inning. CMU began to pull away from Concordia in the bottom of the third inning, scoring two runs with the scored tied 1-1. The Chippewas scored two more runs in the fourth inning to make the score 7-1.
"We have been working on being more consistent," said coach Steve Jaksa. "When the guys are more consistent, they see more opportunities. It is late enough in the season that when we have a situation, I need to know who is going to be able to come through for us."
Concordia scored in the fifth inning with back-to-back triples. However, the 7-2 score was the closest the game got, as CMU put three more runs on the board in the bottom of the fifth inning for an eight-run lead.
The game featured 15 pitchers between the teams and CMU played 24 position players.
"Pitching wise, we wanted to throw everybody for at least one inning," Jaksa said. "We have guys that just haven't had a lot of time throwing. We needed to get them out there, and we did that today."
Emmett returns
Sophomore infielder Brendan Emmett recorded his first hit of the season on Tuesday against Concordia.
Appearing in only his fourth game of the season because of Tommy John surgery, Emmett singled to center field in the seventh inning, scoring redshirt freshman Harvey Martin from second base.
"It was a big monkey off my back," he said. "I feel like I have been swinging the bat pretty well, but it feels good to get that first hit."
Before missing the last two weeks of last season, Emmett started 37 games last season and batted .261.
He played well for us last year and we are glad to have him back in the lineup," said coach Steve Jaksa. "I knew he has been able to play. We have just been waiting on the doctors to give him the OK."
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