JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. - - Ryan Addington lined six hits and scored six runs to help Carson-Newman complete a doubleheader sweep of UVa-Wise at the Silver Diamond Baseball Complex Saturday. The Eagles won game one 16-3 before finishing off a three-game series sweep with a 9-5 win in the finale.
UVa-Wise (3-4) jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in game one as Josh Haga scored on an error before a Stuart Paz sacrifice fly plated the second run of the inning.
The lead was short lived as Carson-Newman (4-3) scored six runs over the next two innings. Paul Kirby blasted a two-run homer to tie the game in the bottom of the first before an error, an Addington RBI single, a second Cavalier error and a wild pitch led to four runs.
Two innings later, the Eagles put the game out of reach with a five-run frame. Eric Lynch, Kirby, Greg Jones and Brett Langhorne had one RBI each in the inning while the fifth run scored when Langhorne raced home on a wild pitch.
Leading 11-2, Carson-Newman scored its 12th run of the game when Addington doubled and later scored on a Cade Snapp single in the fifth.
UVa-Wise made it a 12-3 game when Paz led off the sixth inning with a solo homer.
Carson-Newman answered with four runs in the home seventh as Snapp and Jordan Hinshaw knocked in a run each. The Eagles scored their other two runs on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Greg Jones and a run-scoring hit by Jim Rice.
Will Gardner earned the win on the mound as the right-hander tossed five innings of one-run baseball. Gardner fanned six while walking one and allowing three hits in the relief effort.
Haga and Cal Bailey had two each hits as the duo produced four of UVa-Wise's eight hits in the loss.
Game two saw the Cavaliers again score first as sophomore David Thomas blasted a three-run homerun to give Hank Banner's club a 3-0 lead in the top of the first.
Again, Carson-Newman quickly responded as a Greg Greear three-run homer highlighted a four-run frame for the hosts.
An inning later, the Eagles tacked on three more runs as Kirby knocked in a pair of runs following Rice scoring on a wild pitch.
Leading 7-3, Carson-Newman would hold UVa-Wise scoreless until the seventh and final inning when the Cavs came to bat trailing 9-3.
Back-to-back walks by Matthew Branham and Nathan Hatmaker put two on with nobody out for Bailey. The Suffolk, Va. lined a run-scoring hit to make it a 9-4 game. Following a base hit by Noah Lacy, Jordan Turner worked a bases loaded walk to get UVa-Wise within four at 9-5.
It would be as close as the Cavs would get as a foul out, a pickoff and a strikeout would end the contest.
Ryan Eberle earned the mound win as the senior allowed two runs in four innings of work. The right-hander struck out eight and did not allow a walk in earning his first win of 2017. Robert Plohr picked up the save by firing three innings of relief.
Greer (4) and Kirby (2) had multi-RBI games for the Eagles in the win.
Dylan Luttrell, Devon Moring and Alex Dobry each came out of the UVa-Wise bullpen to fire a scoreless inning.
The Cavs return to action Friday at Southern Wesleyan in Central, S.C. Game time is set for 3 p.m.
