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February 1, 2018 – OXFORD, AL – The Morehouse Maroon Tigers began the baseball season on a down note, losing to Miles College, 7-4, but rebounded in the second game of the doubleheader, with a, 6-5, win over the Golden Bears.  

Opening the season on the road in a non-conference game against a conference opponent, the games were played at the somewhat neutral Chocolocco Park, in Oxford, Ala. 

In Game One:

The Golden Bears collected 12 hits and four walks and converted them into seven runs.

The Maroon Tigers pounded out 11 hits and a walk, but stranded nine baserunners.  

Three Tigers banged out two hits each. First baseman Xavier Floyd went 2 of 4 from the plate, with an RBI. Centerfielder Jason Davis collected 2 hits, in three plate appearance, and third baseman Hulon Kemp went 2 of 3, with an RBI. Shortstop Amyr Smith had a single and an RBI and scored a run.

Right-handed pitcher Anthony Dodd (0-1) took the loss. Dodd went two-and-a-third innings and gave up seven hits and five earned runs. Keon Cusic took over in the third and pitched three-and-a-third innings, giving up five hits, two earned runs and striking out one.

In Game Two:

The Maroon Tigers overcame a two-run deficit, with two runs in the sixth and one in the seventh, to collect their first win of the season and even their record at 1-1.

Auliver Astin drove in the winning run, with a single to right field. The freshman outfielder drove in Langston Harris, the pinch-runner for Jared Maner, who had reached on an error.

The Maroon Tigers out-hit the Golden Bears 10-9, committed two errors and stranded seven runners.

Three Tigers – Astin, who started in right field then moved to left, center fielder Roosevelt Barnes and first baseman Xavier Floyd – had identical stats line, each going 2 of 4 from the plate and driving in a run.

Barnes had the big blow, with a solo home run to left field.

With the Tigers' only other extra-base hit, Grant Bennett drove in two runs with a double to center field. Bennett's RBIs tied the game at 5-all, in the sixth.

Jason Davis (1-0), who pitched two-and-a-third innings, in relief, got the win. Davis came in for starter Kristopher Skinner, who pitched four-and-two-thirds innings, giving up eight hits and four earned runs.

The Maroon Tigers will spend the night in Alabama, and move to Selma, where they will take on Concordia, for a doubleheader, Friday, beginning at noon.