Box Score

Maryville, TN - Maryville College evened the series with a 9-5 win over visiting Piedmont College in Tennessee Saturday afternoon.  The host Scots broke a 4-4 tie with a four-run seventh inning that defined the game.  Senior Caleb Cochran was unusually ineffective, being reached for eight runs, six earned, on 14 hits and two walks in six-plus innings of work as he took a hard loss on the mound.

Sophomore Josh Bailey homered for the second straight game, but it wasn't enough for the No. 23 Lions, as they fall to 23-12 overall and an even 4-4 in Great South Athletic Conference play.  After Cochran was touched for three first-inning runs, the Lions chipped away with a single run in the second off junior James Moyer's RBI single, plating senior Ethan Miers who had doubled just before.  The big inning for Piedmont however was the three-run third, with Bailey launching his fourth homer of the 2012 campaign, and second in as many days, with a solo shot to right field.  Following Bailey's round-tripper, PC loaded the bases and brought in a pair on bases loaded walks by Tim Nunez and Moyer.

The 4-3 lead held true until the home half of the fifth when Maryville knotted the game on an unearned run.  Two monster homeruns by the home team in the seventh gave the Scots all the momentum and took the wind out of the Lions' sails.  Senior Kyle Davis drove in a run with a single in the eighth after junior Tate Koons had singled and swiped second moments earlier.

Koons and senior Curtis Cornett both had two hits each, while Moyer drove in a pair of runs.  The Lions, who were plagued by four errors, will look to take the rubber match game tomorrow at 2:00 pm against arch-rivals Maryville.  Piedmont is now 23-12 and 4-4 in conference action.