A tight baseball game after three innings turned into a run-rule victory for the University of Arkansas at Monticello, as the Boll Weevils scored 11 runs in the seventh inning to take a 19-4 win over former Gulf South Conference rival Christian Brothers University on Tuesday in Memphis.
Kyle Tolley smashed a grand slam, his first home run of the season, as part of the game-sealing inning. Tolley batted 4 for 5 with six RBI, leading the Weevils’ 20-hit assault compared to the Buccaneers’ 10. Christian Brothers (2-11) was also saddled with seven errors, while UAM (8-5) made just two.
UAM led 5-3 after Christian Brothers plated three runs in the third. The Weevils added two in the fifth and each team scored one in the sixth before the Weevils found their seventh-inning jackpot.
Gabe Kuttenkuler batted 4 for 5 as well, scored three runs and drove in two more; Camden Tanner went 3 for 5 with two runs scored and an RBI; and Elijah Olaybal, Jackson Riedling and Drew Floyd (three runs scored) each lined two hits for the Weevils, winners of seven of their last eight.
Mikey Rodriquez went 3 for 4, while Charlie Wooten and Isaac Lemanski each had two hits for the Buccaneers.
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Ryan Mesaris (1-0) struck out two and allowed three earned runs on six hits in three innings. Three others took the mound for UAM.
William Norris (0-1), one of seven Bucs to pitch, suffered the loss after allowing five earned runs on eight hits in the first three innings. Two Bucs pitchers failed to record an out during the UAM seventh.
UAM will host Henderson State for a three-game Great American Conference series starting at 6 p.m. Friday.
SOFTBALL
Miss. College 5-7, UAM 3-3
In Monticello, UAM (7-9) opened its home slate dropping both games of a Tuesday twin bill with Mississippi College (8-7-1).
The visiting Choctaws took a 5-3 lead with a two-run single in the seventh inning of the first game. This was after UAM’s Maddie Moore (2 for 4, three RBI) belted a two-run homer in the fifth inning.
Mississippi College’s Ellie Fryar led off the second game with a solo home run, and Lydia Bethards — who came in for Fryar — smashed a two-run shot in the fourth, as the Choctaws took a 5-0 lead. UAM’s Zoe Bridges launched a solo home run in her only official at-bat.
UAM will visit Henderson State in Arkadelphia for its Great American series starting at 2 p.m. Friday.