Craig Scelfo blasted a pair of home runs for the Gold Team
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
Craig Scelfo had a career day at the plate and Danial McHenry tossed five solid innings to lead the Gold Team to a 10-8 victory in game three of the ULM Maroon & Gold Blood Series Sunday afternoon at Warhawk Field.
Scelfo was 3-for-4 from the plate with two home runs, a double and four RBIs, while McHenry allowed just a pair of earned runs and struck out five giving the Gold Team a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series.
The Gold bats were hot early touching up Maroon starter Devin Pourciau for eight runs – seven earned – in just 2.1 innings. Scelfo hit the second of his two homers of the game – a three-run shot — in the third inning off reliever Blake Jones pushing the Gold lead out to 9-1.
Maroon shortstop Ben Soignier continued to swing a hot bat going 2-for-3 on the game upping his average to .571 (8-for-14) for the series. Jon Prevost connected on his second home run of the series for the Maroon Team, while Boomer Blanchard took one out of the park for the Gold Team.
The Maroon Team battled back with a pair of runs in the fifth and single runs in both the sixth and seventh innings taking advantage of a pair of Gold errors, a Matt Collins double and Prevost’s home run.
Collins came through again with a two-run double in the top of the ninth scoring Jordy Poche and Soignier after the pair led off the inning with back-to-back walks. Following a pitching change which brought Drew Graham out of the pen, Perry Smith doubled to straight-away center field closing the gap to 10-8.
Graham closed out the inning without any more damage to pick up the save.
Cade Bowen had a solid outing out of the Maroon bullpen tossing the final four innings allowing just one run on three hits.
The series continues on Monday at Warhawk Field with game four at 6 p.m.
