The second day of College Baseball season has come and gone. If you didn’t already hear there were quite a few upsets today starting with perhaps the biggest upset of them all, Santa Clara defeating no. 1 ranked Vanderbilt. If you are a Vandy fan don’t feel too bad there are plenty of other upsets that happened today and we’re here to tell you all about them in Saturday’s edition of the National Recap.
Santa Clara defeated no. 1 Vanderbilt 7-6 in the first game of the double header after a two run ninth inning put Santa Clara ahead 7-6 with Vandy ultimately unable to answer in the bottom half of the ninth. Vanderbilt answered back in game two with a 6-5 victory behind the pitching of Jordan Sheffield and the hitting of Zander Wiel and Penn Murfee.
In one of the most anticipated games of the day between no. 6 Texas vs. no. 15 Rice freshman Kacy Clemons of Texas (yes, son of Roger) took the mound against superstar Blake Fox of Rice. Fox proved victorious this time around as the Preseason All-American went 6.0 innings, allowed 4 earned runs and walked 2 in a 10-9 win. Rice won the second game of today’s double-header also by a final score of 5-2.
Junior Jordan Aboites registered two hits and two RBI at the plate and threw 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief on the mound to lead no. 21 Arizona State to a series-clinching win over no. 8 Oklahoma St.
William and Mary split a doubleheader with no. 19 Ole Miss this afternoon. The tribe won game one by a final score of 8-1, and lost game two 16-2. Sophomore Ryder Miconi led the Tribe in game one picking up two hits and driving in four runs.
Joseph Camacho pitched seven strong innings combined with Hunter Allen’s two-run single in a three-run sixth lifted Alabama State to a 3-2 win over no. 18 Cal State Fullerton.
Binghamton headed into SEC country and left with an impressive 11-5 victory over the Auburn Tigers. It was the first win by the Binghamton program over an SEC squad since the 2010 campaign when they defeated Tennessee. Getting the win for the Bearcats was Mike Bunal. He gave up 4 hits, let up 1 earned run and struck out 4 in today’s victory.
Elon relied on pitching in game one and hitting in game two as the Phoenix took two wins in a doubleheader today completing a three- game sweep of visiting Penn State. Elon won game one 7-2 and took the second game 11-6. PSU dropped to 0-3 on the year.
Joey Ravert limited the Hatters to one run over five innings to give the La Salle Explorers the 11-2 win over Stetson. Ravert gave up just two hits and struck out three.
