#MustangsWin! CBC Sweeps Season Series From Crowley's Ridge!

Erik Holth, CBC Sports Information Director

            Paragould, Ark. – Playing their fourth game in as many days (following a day off yesterday), Central Baptist College baseball was at Pioneer Park this afternoon for a matchup with the Crowley's Ridge College Pioneers in the final meeting between the two teams before CRC joins the American Midwest Conference in July. CBC (22-9) run ruled CRC (6-17) again, winning 13-1 over the Pioneers.

            Ruben Hernandez started the scoring in the first with a sac fly to make it 1-0. Three runs would cross the plate in the second thanks to a double by Ryan Dauphinee, a single by Chett McDaniel and a single by starting pitcher Cade McBride. Hernandez drove in his second run of the game in the fourth to make it 5-0, which was followed by a two-run pinch-hit single by Ayden Qualls to make it 7-0 before Jacori Hicks clubbed his second home run of the season, a two-run blast, to make it 9-0 after four. The Pioneers would get their lone run in the fifth before CBC rounded out the scoring in the sixth thanks to a groundout by Hicks, a two-run single by Austin Teal and a wild pitch that scored Teal. McBride earned his second win of the season, throwing five innings and scattering six hits with one unearned run and a career-high eight strikeouts. Brennan Duhe pitched the final two innings, allowing nothing and striking out two.

MUSTANG NOTES

• CBC has won 45 of the 54 all-time meetings with Crowley's Ridge
• Teal now has 196 hits in his career, four shy of becoming the fourth player in program history with 200
• Teal scored three runs and moved into fourth place on the all-time runs scored list with 136
• Hernandez moved past Deonta Howard into seventh on the all-time runs scored list with 120
• Dauphinee's double was his 16^th of the season and moved him into a tie for eighth on the single-season doubles list, six shy of Jalin Lawson's record of 22 set in 2017
• Hernandez brought in 2 runs and moved him past 120 RBIs for his career, putting him fourth all-time
• Teal also had 2 RBIs which gives him 110 for his career, five behind Lawson and Jay French for fifth all-time
• Teal is just nine total bases shy of becoming the fourth player in program history to cross 300
• Teal walked twice in the game and moved into a tie for 10^th on the all-time list with 55
• Teal now has 27 stolen bases this season, one shy of his state leading total of 28 last year, while also putting him one shy of 80 for his career

UP NEXT

            The Mustangs head to Hot Springs on Thursday for a nine-inning contest with Champion Christian. First pitch is scheduled for noon.