April 16, 2008

Box Score

Lake Worth, Fla. - Home Runs from Anthony Paniagua and Manny Escalona helped the St. Thomas University baseball team defeat Palm Beach Atlantic University on senior night 14-6. Paniagua ended the game with four hits on five at bats with three runs and five runs batted in. Escalona produced two hits on five at bats, scored two runs and batted in three runs for the Bobcats.

In the top of the first inning Juan Santana was the first Bobcat (18-17, 6-10 in FSC) to reach first base and did not have to wait long to cross home because the next batter was Paniagua. He drilled a pitch from Sailfish (11-27) starter Taylor McBath, sending it over the left field wall.

After a scoreless first from the Sailfish and a scoreless top of the second from the Bobcats the Sailfish tied the score at two in the bottom of the second.

McBath would come out after the third inning leaving the ballgame with an apparent injury. For his statistical line, McBath was charged with four runs (three earned) and five hits while walking one and striking out one batter. The third run he allowed was scored by Paniagua on a Lance Larimer single.

The Bobcats welcomed McBath's replacement, Trevor Scriber with an onslaught of runs. By the end of the fourth inning the Bobcats scored five runs. J.C. Gil, Richard Bandrich, Santana, Escalona, and Paniagua all scored for the Bobcats.

The runs produced over the first three innings would have been enough to win the game but the Bobcats were not done smacking around the Sailfish pitching staff. The Bobcats would score six more runs over the final five innings highlighted by Escalona's homerun to start the fifth inning.

McBath was the losing pitcher for the Sailfish, while Danny Gonzalez was credited with the win for the Bobcats. He pitched seven innings, allowed four hits, three runs and struck out three batters.

The Bobcats play again at Edward Watters April 18, at 4 pm.