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Official Athletics Site of the Oglethorpe University Stormy Petrels
Will Arnold
Hannah Banfiel
9
Winner Birmingham Southern BSCBB 27-7, 15-3 SAA
7
Oglethorpe OUBSB 16-18, 9-9 SAA
Winner
Birmingham Southern BSCBB
27-7, 15-3 SAA
9
Final
7
Oglethorpe OUBSB
16-18, 9-9 SAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Birmingham Southern BSCBB 0 3 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 9 13 2
Oglethorpe OUBSB 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 1 0 7 11 1

W: White, Joey (5-0) L: Paul, Harry (1-2) S: Williams, Davis (5)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Early lead, late rally not enough against No. 4 Birmingham Southern

ATLANTA – Carter Guarino doubled in a run in the first inning and Oglethorpe scored three runs in the last three innings but ultimately came up short, 9-7, to No. 4 Birmingham Southern on Saturday. The game concluded a three-game Southern Athletic Association set, which Birmingham Southern won to hand the Stormy Petrels only their second SAA series loss of the year.

Guarino's double drove in Will Arnold who was hit by a pitch for an Oglethorpe record 37th time in his career, giving the Petrels a 1-0 lead after one. The lead was short-lived, though, as the fourth-ranked Panthers leapt into the lead with eight runs over their next three frames.

Oglethorpe got three of those runs back in the fourth and fifth before cutting the deficit to 9-6 in the seventh and 9-7 in the eighth. Carson Weir had an RBI groundout for the first run of the seventh, then Mason Pearcy singled through the left side to score Jonathan Cruz. An inning later, Oglethorpe put runners on second and third with one out in a 9-6 game but only a Connor Ledet ground ball would produce a run, and the Stormy Petrels went down in order in the ninth.

Game Notes

  • Cruz, Weir and Pearcy all had multiple hits
  • This was Cruz's 11th multihit game of the season, Weir's and Pearcy's 10th
  • Arnold singled in the eighth to go 1-for-3 and extend his hitting streak to 13 games
  • Arnold ranks No. 6 in the SAA with a 1.124 OPS and No. 10 in the SAA with a .390 batting average
  • Pearcy and Guarino both extended their streak of reaching base to 15 games
  • Oglethorpe is 9-9 in the SAA and has won four of the six series
  • Oglethorpe is 3-5 this year against national top-25 competition, with five of those games coming against top-five competition

Up Next

Oglethorpe finishes the regular season on the road starting with a trip to Piedmont on Tuesday for a nonconference game and ending with a trip to Centre over the weekend for the final SAA series. The SAA postseason tournament starts April 28.

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