Skyhawks Fall To Lindenwood In OVC Baseball Championship

Wednesday, May 21

Marion, Ill.

12:50 p.m.

UT Martin

20-34

Lindenwood

28-28

UT Martin

Lindenwood

Skyhawks Fall To Lindenwood In OVC Baseball Championship

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MARION, Ill.- The University of Tennessee at Martin baseball team battled all day long but fell 6-5 to Lindenwood in the first round of the OVC Baseball Championship presented by SERVPRO.

Brody Capps (three hits, two runs scored, double), Arderrius Townsend (two hits, double), Jordan Hudson (two hits, two RBIs, double) and Cameron Greene (two hits, triple, RBI) collected multi-hit games. Blaze Bell (run scored), Garner Anderson (triple, RBI, run scored), Tommy Koch (run scored) and Jalen Fithian (walk) all reached base safely.

Jacob Sitton (six innings pitched, seven strikeouts) started the game for UT Martin (20-34) while Jeb Bartle (one inning pitched, two strikeouts) and Kaleb Baskin (one inning pitched, no hits allowed, no runs allowed, one strikeout) made appearances out of the bullpen.

Sitton started the day by sitting Lindenwood (28-28) down in order on a flyout, groundout and lineout. The Skyhawk offense struck in a big way in the top of the second, Anderson plated a run on a sacrifice fly which was followed by a double from Hudson to bring in Bell. Greene tripled to score Koch and UT Martin had taken a three-run lead by the end of the frame. Sitton left one stranded in the home half with two punchouts and a flyout to right field.

Sitton made it nine up, nine down when he fanned the first two batters of the inning and scored a flyout to center field. After an Anderson lead-off triple, Hudson singled to score the Martin, Tenn. native and it was 4-0 heading to the bottom of the fourth.

Lindenwood got on the board in the home half and made it a one-run game. UT Martin had a response prepared in the form of a double steal play that brought Capps in to make it 5-3 in the sixth. Sitton sat down the Lions in order in the bottom part of the frame with two punchouts and a groundout to keep the Skyhawks in front.

Lindenwood would take the lead in the home half of the seventh, but Baskin kept it a one-run game after he induced a flyout, pop out and strikeout in the eighth. Down to its final three outs, UT Martin put the tying run on base but was unable to extend the game.

The Skyhawks finish the year 20-34 overall and 11-14 in conference play while making it to a Division I school-record third straight postseason appearance.