WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. - The Lyon College Scots baseball team swept a double-header from Williams Baptist on Saturday afternoon in American Midwest Conference action at Walnut Ridge.
The Scots (25-14, 9-3) defeated Williams Baptist 6-3 and 12-5 to win the series 3-0 and continue a seven-game winning streak.Â
In the first game, Williams Baptist led 2-0 until the fourth inning when
Alec White doubled to center field to score
Alan West.
Jayden Cull singled to right field to score White and tie the game at 2-2.Â
Williams Baptist took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, but
Troy Strack singled in
Evan Hylek to tie the game at 3-3.
Aaron Hurd hit a sacrifice grounder to third base to bring in Strack and West singled to score
Joe Weatherford. Cull reached first on an error and White came in to make it 6-3.Â
Clayton Burke was the winning pitcher, going 6.2 innings and giving up three earned runs.
Jordan Olivera got the save for Lyon College.
In the second game, Lyon College took the lead in the top of the second inning when Strack walked with the bases loaded and Cull scored.
Williams Baptist came back to take a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second inning until the Scots tied the game 2-2 when West doubled in Weatherford in the top of the fifth inning.
In the top of the seventh, West singled in Hurd, White singled in West,
Haydn Finley doubled
in
Logan Doody and White,
Kaden Doan singled to center field to bring in Finley and Strack doubled in Doan for a 7-2 Scots lead.
Lyon College scored two more runs in the eighth when Doan singled in
Zane Wallace and
Chris Lara scored on a wild pitch to make it 9-2.
In the top of the ninth,
C.C. Burrup hit an infield single to bring in
Jesse McGonigal for a 10-3 Scots lead..