SEWANEE, Tenn.—Despite winning the series opener 4-2 Friday night, the Oglethorpe baseball team lost the three-game Southern Athletic Association series to Sewanee when the Tigers pulled off a doubleheader sweep on Saturday. All three games were tied in the eighth inning, with Sewanee pulling off an 8-3 win to even the series in the first game Saturday then winning the series with a 4-3, 11th-inning win in Saturday's nightcap.

The Stormy Petrels had moved within half a game of the SAA lead after Friday's win but now sit one and a half games back.

Game One | Oglethorpe 4, Sewanee 2

Oglethorpe had the earlier 2-0 lead before Sewanee quickly tied the game 2-2, then both teams went quiet until the Petrels won it in the ninth. It was 2-2 through eight when a pair of errors led to the first two reaching for Oglethorpe in the top of the ninth.

An RBI sacrifice fly from Jonathan Cruz gave Oglethorpe the 3-2 lead, and Brick Conway followed with an RBI single to right a few moments later. Colin Stewart finished a strong pitching effort with a 1-2-3 bottom half of the ninth to take the opener.

Will Marconi, the reigning SAA athlete of the week, was the other part of that strong pitching effort. He went the first six innings scattering four hits and two runs with three walks and six punchouts. Marconi did not get a decision despite turning in second straight quality start.

Stewart closed the door on the last three innings, allowing only one hit across three scoreless innings, walking one and striking out one. He faced two over the minimum.

Trey Kinnan (2-for-5), Nick Tarantino (2-for-4) and Sam Mills (2-for-4) finished in the multihit column.

Game Two | Sewanee 8, Oglethorpe 3

Following the theme of tight ballgames in the late innings, Shane Newsome came home on a wild pitch in the top of the eighth to tie the game 3-3. It followed a bit of back and forth from the two clubs, as Sewanee had the lead 1-0 in the first, then both teams plated a run in both the third and the fifth.

Oglethorpe managed to tie the game in the top of the third only to see Sewanee regain the lead in the bottom half, and the same events transpired in the fifth. It looked to be the same way when Newsome tied the game in the eighth, but this time Sewanee answered with a five-spot in the bottom half to surge into the lead for good.

Cooper Krause led the Petrels at the plate, going 2-for-4.

Game Three | Sewanee 4, Oglethorpe 3 (11 innings)

The Stormy Petrels could not have asked for a better start but followed that with an empty hand the rest of the way. Just two batters into the game, Oglethorpe led 2-0 as Isaiah Pou lifted his third home run of the season over the left-field fence, driving home Krause.

Six batters later in the same inning, Newsome drew a bases-loaded walk to score Conway and make it 3-0.

From there, however, Oglethorpe was held scoreless, and Sewanee tied the game with three runs, all unearned, in the bottom half then won it on a walk-off bloop single to left field in the 11th.

The game saw nine straight scoreless innings from both teams, spanning the second through the 10th.

Cruz led Oglethorpe in the finale with a 3-for-6 effort. Pou went 2-for-5, Tarantino went 2-for-4, and Carter Guarino went 2-for-3.

Dylan Quintilio handed in the best start of his career with eight strong innings, giving up no earned runs and only one walk while striking out four and keeping the Tigers scoreless across his last seven innings.

Stewart, who was lights-out against Sewanee Friday night, pitched a similar effort but was saddled the loss when the Tigers punched across the winning run in the 11th. It came after a leadoff single and stolen base put the winning run on second with nobody out. Sewanee then followed with a flyout and single to left just over the reach of Newsome at third.

Up Next

Oglethorpe hosts Huntingdon on Tuesday at 4 p.m. and will be on the road next weekend facing Hendrix.