LAKE WALES, Fla. – (RV) Warner Baseball becomes the third team in The Sun Conference to reach the overall 20 win mark.
Warner and Ave Maria split the series doubleheader which gave the Royals the 2-1 advantage.
Warner has now earned the conference win in 2-3 TSC series. The Royals have also won six out of the last seven games including the 2021 Warner University Invitational which featured some of the nation's best talent.
The Royals scored 30 total runs in the three-game series.
In the first game of the double header, the Royals held a commanding 7-0 lead following the bottom of the first inning. The Gyrenes then used the next three innings to inch back and eventually take the lead in the top of the fourth inning 9-7 over the Royals including a solo homerun off the bat of Bergkamp.
The Royals regained the lead in the fourth and fifth innings with some power off the bats. In the fourth inning,
Anthony Capri hit a 3-run homerun to right field.
Tyler Brown hit a 2-run homerun deep to right field.
John Pichman finished off the scoring for the Royals hitting a solo homerun in the bottom of the fifth giving the Royals a 13-9 lead.
Trailing 12-13, Ave Maria's Stanley stepped up to the plate with bases loaded full of Gyrenes. Stanley got the pitch he was looking for and sent a shot to right center for a grand slam giving the Gyrenes a 16-13 lead.
WU (19-12) – 13, Ave Maria (9-18) – 16
Winning Pitcher: Whitlatch (2-3)
Losing Pitcher: Elijah Garner (1-1)
Royals Batting Leaders:
Game two was another high scoring affair. It was the Gyrenes that leaped out to an early 8-2 lead over the Royals. In the bottom of the sixth, Warner used a 4-run inning to cut into the lead and trail the Gyrenes 8-9.
In the bottom of the ninth inning,
Alexander Ramos led off the inning with an infield single.
Zachary Arnold came in to run for Ramos.
Daniel Coca laid down a bunt single moving Arnold to second.
Anthony Capri followed up with another bunt for a base hit, however a throwing error on the Gyrene infield allowed 2 run to cross the plate as Coca and Arnold came around to score on the walkoff bunt.
WU (20-12) – 10, Ave Maria (9-19) – 9
Winning Pitcher: Pedro Reyes (2-0)
Losing Pitcher: Cam (1-6)
Royals Batting Leaders:
2B: Logan Flood (1); Josh Strickland (1)
The Royals will hit the road for the first time in conference next weekend to take on the University of South Carolina Beaufort. So far, Warner has only played four games away from its home field out of its first 32 games.
