The Lions of Florida Memorial University (7-6 4-4 TSC) were looking to get even against the Sand Sharks of the University of South Carolina Beaufort on Saturday afternoon.
This game was originally scheduled to be played on Friday afternoon as part of a double-header but was postponed to Saturday afternoon due to a rain delay on Friday. The Lions had lost the first game of the series, 4-6 and were looking to even up the series at one game apiece. Early on it looked as if the Sand Sharks were poised to take a 0-2 lead in the series as they were able to score 3 runs in first two innings of play. In the bottom of the third inning, the Lions were able to push a runner across home plate to make the score 1-3. However, the Lions suffered a bad inning defensively and allowed 2 more runs on one hit and had 2 errors in the top half of the 5th inning. With the score 1-5 in favor of the Sand Sharks the Lions came out swinging in the bottom of the 5th inning to tie the score 5-5. The Lions took advantage of two errors from the Sand Sharks, the lone base hit in the inning was from
Darrin Brown, a triple that went over the head of the left fielder that scored 3 runs. In the bottom of the 7th inning, the Lions would score one more run off the bat of
Darrin Brown again. This time it was
Francisco Quinonez who laced a double to center scored on a single by Brown to right field to make the score 6-5 in favor of the Lions.
In the top of the 9th inning, the Sand Sharks would score 2 runs on 3 hits and take the lead back, 6-7. This meant that the Lions were left to their last at bat if they had any hopes of winning this game.
Francisco Quinonez walked with one out then
Darrin Brown reach on base as he was hit by the pitch, this put runners on first and second base.
Raymond Guerrero hit a ball to the left fielder that went under his glove and that score the two runs that the Lions would need to win this game. Guerrero's RBI walk off single allowed the Lions to capture the victory 8-7.
Leading the way for the Lions were
Darrin Brown, 3-4, with 4 RBI and 1 run scored and
Jouseph Renovales, 3-4 with 1 run scored.
Carlos Alcon picked up the victory, pitching 5.1 innings, allowing 7 hits, surrendering 4 walks, 4 earned runs, and striking out 5 batters.
GO LIONS!!!