Baseball suffers two losses on Friday

MT. VERNON, Ga. – The No. 13 Loyola Wolf Pack baseball team traveled to Brewton-Parker for a three-game Southern States Athletic Conference series. The two team started with a doubleheader on Friday, and the Wolf Pack took two losses to begin the series. 
 

Loyola (30-11, 15-8 in SSAC) and Brewton-Parker will conclude the series with the finale on Saturday at 1 p.m. CDT. 
 

Game 1: Brewton-Parker 10, #13 Loyola 9 (7) 

After recording two hits in the first inning, the Wolf Pack pushed their first three runs across in the second inning. Anthony Fernandez doubled to lead off the frame, and he and Aaron Davis, who reached on a walk, scored after an infield error off the bat of Jake Mills, 2-0. Jaxon Buratt picked up the RBI to plate Mills and give Loyola an early 3-0 lead. Collin Zeringue singled and Fernandez and Kason Cullins were both hit by pitches ot start the third inning. Then with two outs, Mills brought two runs home, 5-0, on a single to center. 
 

The Barons, though, scored one in the third and two in the fourth, and both were home runs to cut BPC's deficit to 5-3. The Pack got one run back in the fifth, as Mills switched spots with Marcus Steen, who singled and stole a base, at second with a double, 6-3.
 

Brewton-Parker kept battling back, this time it pushed three runs across in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game, 6-6. Loyola, again, responded. Kason Cullins led off the seventh and final inning with a solo home run, 7-6, and Davis and Mills kept things going with a single and a walk, respectively. A single down the right-field line ended up bringing the two base runners home, 9-6. The Barons made the most of their final at-bat, however, scoring four runs in the bottom of the seventh to take Game 1. 
 

Game 2: Brewton-Parker 7, #13 Loyola 4 

Loyola scored first in the second game, too, with Zeringue giving the Wolf Pack the 3-0 lead with a three-run homer. Mooney and Fernandez both walked to put two runners on base. After Brewton-Parker scratched one run across in the bottom half of the first, 3-1, Zeringue came through again with an RBI single to make it a 4-1 lead. The Barons answered with three runs in the next half-inning to tie it, 4-4, after two innings. 
 

The two teams combined for just one hit through the next three innings, but BPC was the one to push across more runs in later innings. The Barons scored two runs in the sixth and one more in the eighth to earn the win. 
 

Pack Facts

• Kason Cullins' Game 1 home run was the ninth of his Loyola career. 

• Collin Zeringue drove in all four runs in Game 2, with his 3-run homer being his sixth of the year. 

• The Pack's Game 1 starter, Stephen Still went 5.1 innings with five strikeouts. He's tied for the fourth-most innings pitched in program history with 290.1 in his career. 

• Anthony Fernandez returned to the lineup with a double in game 1, his first game since March 1. 

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