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Jack Kale
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Winner LeTourneau LETOURNE 12-9, 10-6 SCAC
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Ozarks (Ark.) UO 8-15, 2-11 SCAC
Winner
LeTourneau LETOURNE
12-9, 10-6 SCAC
15
Final
12
Ozarks (Ark.) UO
8-15, 2-11 SCAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
LeTourneau LETOURNE 3 1 2 1 4 4 0 0 0 15 14 1
Ozarks (Ark.) UO 3 1 2 0 4 0 2 0 0 12 15 4

W: Podsednik, Will (2-1) L: Jake Dempsey (3-4) S: Cox, Cruz (3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ethan Smith - Graduate Assistant for Athletics Communications

Baseball Takes Slugfest From Ozarks

CLARKSVILLE, Ark. -- LeTourneau baseball mashed the ball on Friday night, taking the SCAC series opener from the Ozarks Eagles, 15-12, at Lonnie Qualls Field.

LeTourneau (12-9, 10-6 SCAC) plated 15 runs on 14 hits and four Eagle (8-15, 2-11 SCAC) errors. The YellowJackets scored runs in each of the first six innings.

Jack Kale had a career day, going 4-for-6 at the plate with a pair of doubles and collecting a career-high five RBIs in the win.

Zack Baker followed with a 3-for-6 day, collecting a pair of RBIs and a run scored. Austin Wiederhold reached base four times, going 2-for-3 at the plate with two walks, two RBIs, and two runs scored.

Jonah McDaniel, Blake Vice, Cody Brady, Seth Hudson, and Giancarlo Meléndez each had a hit in the victory.

LeTourneau drew first blood, plating three in the first inning. Vice roped a two-RBI triple off the wall in center field, before Baker singled him home in the next at-bat.

The Eagles answered with four hits of their own in the home half, tying the game at 3-3 after the first.

Each team scored one run in the second inning, and two runs in the third, to knot the game at 6-6 after three.

Kale plated Wiederhold on a double down the left field line in the fourth to give LeTourneau a 7-6 edge at the halfway mark.

Wiederhold worked a bases-loaded walk in the fifth to add one more to the YellowJacket lead, followed by Kale smashing a bases-clearing double to push the lead to 11-6.

Ozarks led off the bottom of the fifth with a homer, followed by three more runs to cut the lead to 11-10. 

LeTourneau kept the foot in the gas in the sixth, plating four more runs. Brady doubled to center to bring home the first; two more Jackets scored on an error, and Kale capped his career night with his fifth RBI on a single to left.

Gabriel Ellison managed a two-RBI double to cut the lead to 15-12 in the seventh, but the final three innings were quiet outside of that.

Cruz Cox threw a shoutout ninth inning to earn his fourth save of the season. Will Podsednik (2-1) earned the win in relief, throwing two innings out of the pen.

Jake Dempsey (3-4) allowed 10 runs in his 4.2-inning start, receiving the loss.

Connor Reed led the Eagles with a 5-for-6 day at the plate, followed by Jacob Knox, who went 3-for-6 with two homers and four RBIs.

UP NEXT

LeTourneau aims to take the SCAC series, as the teams play a doubleheader tomorrow starting at 12:00 p.m.

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