TOCCOA FALLS, Ga.— Playing against the Toccoa Falls College Screaming Eagles in a non-conference doubleheader Monday afternoon, the Montreat baseball team secured two wins, defeating the home side 10-5 and 14-4 to improve to 18-14-1 on the year.
A solo shot from
Jonathan Gonzalez got things started in the top of the first of the initial contest as six straight reached with two outs to propel the Cavaliers out to a 3-0 edge.
Mitch Ball then followed Gonzalez's lead with a home run in the ensuing frame to make it 4-0 in the second.
Unearned runs allowed the Cavaliers to stretch their advantage to 9-0 in the fourth as an error and RBIs from three different Cavs, including a 2-run blast by
Richard Matos Delacruz, aided the visitors in the inning.
Ball launched his second homer of the contest in the fifth to cap off the scoring for Montreat as he put the Cavaliers up 10-0, and, although Toccoa Falls scored five in the sixth, the Cavs held on for a 5-run triumph.
After
Milo Trevino used a bases-loaded walk to hand the Cavaliers a 1-0 edge in the first of game two, Toccoa Falls (15-10) responded with three runs to lead 3-1 through one. Gonzalez trimmed the deficit to one; however, the Screaming Eagles extended the gap back out to 4-2 in the bottom of the second.
Despite the early scoring from the home team, Montreat controlled the matchup from there, scoring 12 unanswered runs to take a 14-4 advantage.
Elijah Baptist notched a sacrifice fly in the third before a 5-run fourth inning flipped the scoreline in the visitors' favor for good.
Zeb Marquis reestablished the lead for the Cavs with his 2-run double prior to Trevino's 3-run home run that pushed the edge to four (8-4).
Trevino then launched another 3-run jack in the ensuing inning, beginning a stretch of three consecutive homers by Cavaliers thanks to bombs off the bats of
Will Gamble and
Collin Nelson. Baptist concluded the scoring with his RBI base knock in the top of the seventh, while Trevino ended with seven RBIs in the latter competition.
Baseball returns to conference action on Good Friday with a game at the University of Pikeville Bears. First pitch in Kentucky is scheduled for 3 p.m.
