CONWAY, Ark. - The Hendrix College baseball team honored their nine seniors in pre-game ceremonies, featured all nine seniors during the game, but could not earn a win for the class of 2015, falling 11-2 to nin-thranked Birmingham-Southern College on Sunday afternoon at Warrior Field.
Hendrix honored
Ryan Ritz,
John Pounds,
Grant Nunn,
Cannon Schrank,
Seth Mobley,
Tim San Pablo,
Matt Simmons,
Brady Newville, and
Nick Land during pre-game ceremonies and had all nine seniors participate in the game.
Wyatt Hogan led the Hendrix offense with a pair of hits, going 2-for-4 from the dish while Ritz and
Thomas Weber accounted for the team's two RBI. San Pablo took the loss, allowing three earned runs in an inning pitched.
Daniel Imbro allowed one run over four innings and
Harley Faye pitched a pair of shutout innings in the eighth and ninth. Schrank, Nunn and Land each took the mound as well.
BSC took a commanding 5-0 lead in the first inning and never let go of it, as the Panthers totaled 11 runs on 11 hits in the game. The Hendrix offense got on the board in the bottom of the sixth inning when Weber brought home Mobley on a sacrifice fly to right field, making it 10-1.
The team scored again in the bottom of the seventh when Ritz drew a bases loaded walk to score Land, who had pinch-run for Pounds. The run made the score 11-2, but the Warriors could not generate any more scoring.
Faye closed down the game with a pair of scoreless innings but the damage had been done as BSC came away with the victory.
Hendrix Notes- The Hendrix baseball class of 2015 graduates with a combined 83 wins over their four years with the team, including 10 victories over teams ranked in the nation's top 25.
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Daniel Imbro added one strikeout to his team-leading season total. He ranks 10th all-time in single-season strikeouts (55).
- Weber earned an RBI but saw his 10-game hitting streak come to an end. It was the longest hitting streak of the Warriors' season.
BSC Notes- Four different Panthers recorded a multi-hit game, including Jacob Mayfield who had a team-high three RBI.
- Stephen Himic earned the win tossing five innings of shutout baseball, allowing just three hits and one walk.
- With a conference record of 16-4-1, the Panthers earned the top seed in the SAA Tournament and the right to host throughout.
Up NextHendrix will be the sixth seed in the SAA Tournament, and will head to second-seeded Millsaps College for the first segment of the SAA Playoffs. The Warriors will face third-seeded Rhodes College in the double-elimination format, with Millsaps and Sewanee - The University of the South completing their four-team pod.
