Baseball Knocks Off Lenoir-Rhyne to Advance in SAC Tournament

Kodak, Tenn - The Coker University baseball team knocked off Lenoir-Rhyne in the opening round of the South Atlantic Conference Tournament by a score of 4-2 on Thursday (April 21). 

Coker would get on the board first when Jackson Williams would launch a two-RBI bomb over the left field wall to score Kody Hanna, putting Coker up 2-0. 

The Cobras would strike again in the third from Cory Listing's two-RBI double down the left field line that scored Cam Murray and Phill Griffor, extending the Cobra lead 4-0. 

Coker's defense would hold the Lenoir-Rhyne offense hitless until the bottom of the third. 

Neither team would score again until the bottom of the eighth, when the Bears would send a solo home run over the right field wall. 

Aaron Mitchell (4-0) pitched 7.0 scoreless innings, scattering four hits and striking out three over 8.0 innings of work against one of the most powerful offenses in the country. 

The Bears would try and mount a comeback by scoring one in the bottom of the ninth. Tanner Wofford would get the winning strikeout to pick up the save against the conference's leader in home runs, Drue Galassi, stranding the game tying runs. 

Coker Baseball is back in action tomorrow morning against top-seeded No. 13 Catawba, first pitch is set for 11 a.m. with live coverage available at www.cokercobras.com.