BRENHAM, Texas – Blinn College baseball got the bats going in the middle innings to pound out 16 hits in a 12-5 victory over South Suburban College Wednesday evening inside Leroy Dreyer Field in Brenham.
The win helps the Buccaneers improve to 15-10 overall and their conference records stays at 6-6. Blinn has now won six of its last seven games.
South Suburban jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning but Blinn would recover and never let South Suburban see the plate again. Blinn was able to get a few runs back in the bottom of the first when Elijah MacNamee and Angel De La Fuente singled and Sam McElreath unloaded the bases with a three-run home run to get within 5-3 of South Suburban.
Blinn went after the lead in the third when De La Fuente was hit by a pitch to get on and then was brought in by a Trent Murphy double to left to get within 5-4. George Pappas tied the game with ground out to score Austen Swift to make the score 5-5.
Jay Anderson got hit by a pitch to begin the fourth inning and was brought in by a double to right by Patrick King for a 6-5 lead. King later scored in the inning on a passed ball to take a 7-5 advantage.
Again the Buccaneers started off an inning with a batter getting hit by a pitch as Swift was the victim in the fifth and then Swift later came in to score on an error for a 8-5 edge.
Blinn started to pour it on in the sixth when MacNamee and De La Fuente hit back-to-back solo home runs for a 10-5 lead. Daniel Anciso brought in the 11th run with a sacrifice fly and then Walker Winders brought in a run with a single to left to make the score 12-5 that would hold up until the final out.
Blinn will get back into conference play with a doubleheader on the road against Laredo Community College on Friday, March 18 starting at 4 p.m.
Blinn has competed in intercollegiate athletics since 1903 and captured 32 NJCAA national championships since 1987. For more information, visit www.buccaneersports.com.
About Blinn College
With an enrollment of 19,422 students, Blinn ranks among the nation's leaders in transferring students to leading four-year universities and has received national recognition for affordable educational excellence. For more information, visit www.blinn.edu.
