Box Score April 8, 2017 -- ATLANTA -- After losing the first game, 14-7, Morehouse earned a split in the doubleheader against Paine College, with a dramatic come-from-behind win.
The Maroon Tigers scored six runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and won 12-11.
Pinch runner Isaiah Blassingame scored the winning run with no outs in the inning. Blassingame, running for Bryan Armstead, who had singled, induced a throw from the catcher, which sailed into right field. The speedy freshman hustled around the bases and was mobbed by jubilant teammates as he crossed home plate.
On that play, right fielder Michael Broadus scored ahead of Blassingame, to tie the score at 11-all. Broadus' single drove in two runs and he advanced to third on Armstead's hit.
Armstead's single was the sixth consecutive hit in the inning off losing pitcher Zach Rader.
Designated hitter Zachary Lowe started the rally with a single, to lead off the inning. Kaelan Ashford-Jones, Jared Maner and Xavier Floyd followed with singles.
Right-hander Benjamin Phillips got the win and improved his record to 1-1. Phillips came into the game in the fifth to replace starter Anthony Dodd.
In the first inning, Floyd hit his second home run of the year, driving in Ashford-Jones who had singled. Morehouse scored three runs in the first inning, to take a 3-1 lead. The Tigers put up two more runs in the second inning, on three hits and an error and tacked on another run in the fifth.
Ashford-Jones went 3-of-4 at the plate and Floyd finished with four runs batted in.
The Tigers overcame six errors, to win their sixth game of the season and improved to 6-23; 3-8.
In Game One:
The Lions struck first, with three runs in the first inning, on two doubles and a single.
Morehouse bounced back, with a run in the bottom of the frame, off a solo home run by Kristopher Skinner, his first of the season.
Neither team scored again until the fourth, when the Maroon Tigers exploded for six runs, which gave starting pitcher Jason Davis a 7-3 lead. Jared Maner had two of the Tigers' seven hits in the inning, as Morehouse sent 11 men to the plate.
Paine responded in the fifth, eight runs on five hits, a walk and a hit batsman. Four of the runs were unearned.
The Lions tacked on two more runs in the sixth and one in the seventh, to secure the win for pitcher Evan Krentz, last season's SIAC Pitcher of the Year.
Xavier Floyd went 2-of-2, with an RBI and a run scored. Amyr Smith had a hit and two runs batted in.
Morehouse collected 10 hits, left five men on base and committed four errors, which lead to five unearned runs.
Paine banged out 14 hits and left nine men on base.
The two teams will break the tie, Sunday at 1 p.m., in a nine-inning game.
