Baseball: Eagles Host NCCAA #1 Fort Lauderdale for Two
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E | |
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Fort Lauderdale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 2 |
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Trinity Baptist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Fort Lauderdale | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
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Trinity Baptist | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
TBC Eagles Baseball hosted a double-header with the #1 team in the NCCAA when the University of Fort Lauderdale Eagles came to Trinity Ballyard on Tuesday. Game 1 starter Michael Cardenas pitched a gem against the defending South Region champions, but a miscue in the seventh allowed UFTL to send the game into extra innings. UFTL won it in eight then completed the sweep in Game 2.
Game 1: UFTL 7, Eagles 3
Cardenas worked 6.2 innings, holding the #1 team in the NCCAA that came into play at 24-3 to 3 runs (1 earned) on 9 hits while walking 4 and striking out 3.
After a rough start in the top of the first in which UFTL got its only earned run before loading the bases with one out (all without a hit), Cardenas induced a 6-4-3 double play to end a potentially damaging inning. He then locked in for the rest of his outing.
The Eagles tied the score in the bottom of the fourth on Jacob Burke's grounder that brought home Parker Laffrey (walk). After Fort Lauderdale regained the lead a half inning later (Aderlyn Cubilete RBI single), Jordan Fernandez singled home Dominic Gattinella to retie the score.
Colin Sepulveda drove in Burke (hit by pitch) in the sixth to give Trinity a 3-2 lead, but Fort Lauderdale took advantage of a two-out bobble when Chris Martin scored on a bouncer into center to knot it up again.
Fort Lauderdale then scored four times in the eighth to win it.
Game 2: UFTL 7, Eagles 1
Four unearned runs in the first inning gave Fort Lauderdale a lead they would not relinquish. They added two more in the second and one in the fourth.
Dominic Gattinella singled home Jacob Burke (single) in the second for TBC's only run. Burke was 2 for 3, and Parker Laffrey and Drew Gifford each hit safely for Trinity.
Brandon Hoang pitched three scoreless innings in relief against the highest-scoring offense in the NCCAA. Hoang allowed only 2 hits, walked just 1, and struck out 3.
Next Up
The Eagles will host a first-year team when Doral's Millennia Atlantic University comes to town on Wednesday for an 1:00 p.m. first pitch. TBC will then host NAIA Ave Maria University for an 11:00 a.m. double-header on Tuesday, March 26. A trip to NAIA Vorhees College follows on April 5 and 6 before the final home games occur on April 12 and 13 vs. Atlantis University.