{"id":21594,"date":"2013-03-24T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=21594"},"modified":"2013-03-24T18:07:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:07:47","slug":"baseball-defeats-etsu-3-2-to-open-a-sun-conference-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/baseball-defeats-etsu-3-2-to-open-a-sun-conference-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Defeats ETSU 3-2 to Open A-Sun Conference Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another stellar start on the mound, junior right-hander\u00a0<strong>Ricky Knapp (Port Charlotte, Fla.\/Port Charlotte HS)<\/strong>\u00a0helped the Eagles pick up a 3-2 victory over East Tennessee State, to open up Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) play, Friday night at Smith Stadium in Johnson City, Tenn.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Eagles move to 14-4 on the year and 1-0 in A-Sun action. ETSU drops to 12-7 and 2-2 in A-Sun play. This is the second-straight season the Eagles have started conference play with a victory.\u00a0 The all-time record against the Bucs moves to 12-5.<\/p>\n<p>The Green and Blue opened up the scoring in the second when redshirt senior\u00a0<strong>Brooks Beisner (Punta Gorda, Fla.\/Charlotte HS\/Auburn)\u00a0<\/strong>reached on a fielding error by the third basemen to lead off the inning. Junior\u00a0<strong>Brandon Bednar (Stuart, Fla.\/South fork HS)<\/strong>\u00a0then moved Beisner to third with a double to the left field. Sophomore\u00a0<strong>Michael Suchy (Bradenton, Fla.\/Southeast HS)<\/strong>\u00a0then drove in Beisner from third with a single to the shortstop. Bednar also scored on the play when they shortstop committed a throwing error.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs evened the score in the bottom half of the fifth when Chris Riopedre reached on a fielder choice and eventually scored on a wild pitch. Jordan Sanford came around with the second run for the Bucs on a Jeremy Taylor double to center field.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles regained the lead in the top of the ninth when Bednar lead off with a ground rule double to left field. Suchy followed by moving Bednar to third on a sacrifice bunt. Freshman\u00a0<strong>Nick River (Cape Coral, Fla.\/Bishop Verot HS)\u00a0<\/strong>then drove Bednar in with a single to left field.<\/p>\n<p>Knapp moves to 5-0 on the year with the win. The Port Charlotte native tossed eight innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and fanned eight batters. Junior\u00a0<strong>Harrison Cooney (Vero Beach, Fla.\/Vero Beach HS)\u00a0<\/strong>tossed a scoreless ninth inning to record his second save this season.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Griffin Krieg started on the bump for ETSU and was credited with the loss. Krieg\u2019s record moves to 2-1 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Suchy and Rivera both led the ballclub in hitting, collecting two hits and a RBI apiece. Bednar and senior\u00a0<strong>Mike Reeves (Peterborough, Ontario\/St. Peter\u2019s Secondary)\u00a0<\/strong>also collected two hits in the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles will be back in action tomorrow, when they face ETSU again for the second game of the three-game series at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another stellar start on the mound, junior right-hander\u00a0Ricky Knapp (Port Charlotte, Fla.\/Port Charlotte HS)\u00a0helped the Eagles pick up a 3-2 victory over East Tennessee State, to open up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}