MEMPHIS—The Oglethorpe baseball team lost all three games of a Southern Athletic Association set Saturday and Sunday at Rhodes. Rhodes won the series-opening doubleheader 11-6 and 8-1 on Saturday before finishing the sweep Sunday with a 5-2 win.

Oglethorpe had a great chance to salvage the series with a victory in Sunday's finale but came up short in the late innings. After Rhodes took a 2-0 lead, Greg Johnson helped tie the game in the top of the sixth inning with an RBI ground ball that scored Nick Tarantino to make it 2-2. The lead would quickly go back into Rhodes favor, however, as the Lynx plated one in the bottom half to make it 3-2 then added another run in each of the seventh and eighth innings to go ahead 5-2.

Oglethorpe's eighth featured another chance to claw back, as Jonathan Cruz led off by reaching and the Petrels had runners on first and second with two out. However, a groundout ended the threat.

An inning later in Oglethorpe's final at-bat, Sam Mills reached on a two-out single, and the Petrels once again had two aboard with two out. Again, Rhodes escaped the danger, this time with a strikeout ending the threat.

Series Notes

• Tarantino and Johnson led Oglethorpe's offensive effort in the series with four hits apiece. Tarantino was 4-for-9 with two runs and an RBI; Johnson was 4-for-10 with a double and two RBI's.
• Grant Guinther had the best pitching numbers for the Stormy Petrels, throwing 3.1 scoreless innings on Sunday to help keep the game close. He struck out four.

Up Next

Oglethorpe hosts Piedmont Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. at Hermance Stadium. This will be game two of the season series after Piedmont won their home game 7-6 during the first week of March.