Tartan Pride drops high-scoring affair to Vincennes University, 15-10

Eight hits weren't enough for Tartan Pride as it lost a shootout, 15-10 in seven innings, to Vincennes University on Tuesday at Grady's Field. Mark Carpenter racked up three RBIs on three hits for Tartan Pride. He homered in the second inning and singled in the third and sixth innings. Cheek got the win for Vincennes University despite allowing eight runs over 4 2/3 innings. He struck out three, walked seven and surrendered five hits. Vincennes University's Doring, Sander, Myers and Volz combined for nine hits and nine RBIs. Drew Murray was charged with the loss. He lasted just 1 1/3 innings, walked two, struck out one, and allowed three runs. Vincennes University jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first. A single by Sander, scoring Meliff started the inning off. More runs came home for Vincennes University when Sander scored on an RBI triple by Myers and Myers scored on a sacrifice fly by Simpson. Tartan Pride answered Vincennes University's top inning with three runs of its own in the second. Tartan Pride scored on a three-run home run by Mark. Tartan Pride posted one run in each of the fifth, sixth and seventh. In the fifth, Tartan Pride scored on a sacrifice fly by Alex Young, plating Jimmy White. The lead stayed with Vincennes University after the sixth, when it scored three runs on a two-run double by Myers and an error. Vincennes University added five more runs in the top of the seventh. A clutch scored Volz to open the scoring in the frame. That was followed up by Doring's single, scoring Hartman. One run in the bottom of the seventh helped Tartan Pride close its deficit to 15-10. A groundout by Mitch Roman triggered Tartan Pride's comeback. Vincennes University closed the game out when #9 got Alonso Palacios to strike out.

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