BATESVILLE, Ark.- The Lyon College Scots baseball team defeated the 12^th-ranked Loyola University-New Orleans Wolf Pack 12-2 on Monday afternoon in eight innings.

Joe Weatherford led the Scots at the plate with a 4-for-5 performance and he scored two runs. Kaden Doan scored twice for Lyon College pinch-running for Logan Doody, who was 1-for-4 at the plate. Troy Strack was 1-for 4 with a run scored and an RBI.

Alan West was the winning pitcher, going seven innings and giving up only two runs off of five hits.
After the Wolf Pack took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, Weatherford singled in Strack to tie the game and Alec White doubled in Derek Underwood to put the Scots up 2-1.

Loyola tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the second inning, but in the bottom of the fifth, Weatherford and Hakeem Yatim scored on consecutive passed balls and Strack walked to score Doan to make it 5-2.

The Scots got two more runs in the bottom of the sixth, Zach Ellis singled in CC Burrup and Weatherford. And in the bottom of the seventh inning, West hit a solo homer to make it 802. Logan McLevain Singled to score Doan in the bottom of the eighth and Tristan Buschow scored on a wild pitch.

But the night belonged to Clayton Aleya, who in his first at-bat ever for the varsity, doubled to the gap and scored McLevain and Cameron Gordon to put the Scots up 12-2 and end the game.

Lyon College is 10-5 overall and will host Freed-Hardeman (11-4) on Tuesday, March 1 at 5 p.m. at Fred Wann Field.