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WCU loses two of three games in Keith LeClair Classic at ECU
Western Carolina lost two of three baseball games over the weekend at the Keith LeClair Classic hosted by East Carolina leaving the Catamounts 6-4.
WCU’s Tyler Sexton improved to 3-0 Friday as the Cats opened the event with a 6-5 victory over 20th-ranked N.C. State. He pitched 6.2 innings and struck out seven while yielding five hits.
Greg Holland picked up his second save.
Kenny Smith, who was named Southern Conference player of the week, was three of four to lead the WCU offense.
Blake Murphy’s RBI double and John Ingram’s sacrifice fly put Western up 2-0 in the bottom of the second.
Barrett Shaft homered in the third making it 3-0.
The Wolfpack tied the game in the fifth on Ramon Corona’s two-run double along with a passed ball.
Smith’s two-run single and Ingram’s sacrifice fly gave the Cats a 6-3 advantage in the bottom of the fifth.
Joe Florio’s RBI single and a bases-loaded walk cut the gap to 6-5 in the eighth.
Pepperdine, the nation’s 12th-ranked team broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the eighth Saturday to win 3-1. Donald Brown homered to put the Waves on top, and another run scored on an error.
Pepperdine had taken a 1-0 lead in the first on Brown’s RBI single.
Ingram’s RBI double tied the score in the fifth.
Brown led Pepperdine’s offense by going three of four.
Adam Olbrychowski was the winning pitcher in relief.
WCU reliever Tyler Johnson (0-1) took the loss.
Shaft had three hits in four at-bats, and Murphy was two of four.
In Sunday’s finale, East Carolina’s Brandon Henderson’s RBI double in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Pirates to a 3-2 victory.
Holland (0-1) was the losing pitcher.
Western opened the scoring in the fourth on a two-run double by Steven Strausbaugh.
David Forbes’s two-run homer tied it in the sixth.
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