March 28, 2021
Baseball's Winning Ways Continue, 5-3 at Daytona State
Santa Fe College
22-8, 11-1
5
Daytona State College
3-9, 13-13
3
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Santa Fe baseball defeated Daytona State for the third time this season, winning its eighth straight game and 15th out of the last 16 outings with a 5-3 result in Daytona Beach on Sunday afternoon.
Bret Madren's single in the top of the second inning put the Saints ahead 2-0, as Tyler Shelnut and Gabriel Esquivel touched home.
The Falcons took their first lead of the game, 3-2, with single runs in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings.
Santa Fe regained the lead with two runs in the seventh inning, with consecutive RBI doubles from Jonathan Logsdon and Luis Rodriguez.
The final run of the game came in the eighth inning, with Coy Phillips scoring on a passed ball.
The Saints' defense and pitching did the rest, keeping the Falcons off the scoreboard in the game's last three innings.
Key Statistics
Santa Fe finished with 11 hits in the contest, which included doubles from Logsdon, Rodriguez, Mock, and Gabriel Esquivel.
Rodriguez, Mock, and Esquivel each had two hits, while the RBI's came from Logsdon, Rodriguez, and Madren with two.
Lance Bolton started on the mound, finishing with a line of 5.1 IP, six hits, three earned runs, one walk, and five strikeouts.
Eduardo Yepes came out of the bullpen and had a scoreless inning to earn the win. Trent Becker struck out one and allowed just one hit in 1.2 innings pitched. Shelnut had yet another save, his NJCAA Division I leading tenth on the year. Shelnut set the Falcons down in order in the ninth and had one strikeout.
Wiggs' Words
"We had to grind our way through this one today. We struck out too much but found a way to get a few big hits and put up a crooked number in the second and seventh inning. Becker was really good for us out of the pen, and Shelnut continues to get it done for us in the ninth. Rodriguez and Logsdon turned two big double plays in the seventh and ninth."
Up Next
Santa Fe (22-8, 11-1 MFC) heads to Seminole State College on Monday, March 29. The game is set to begin at 3:00 p.m.