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Winner East Tennessee State ETSU 15-7, 1-1 SoCon
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Western Carolina WCU 11-10, 1-1 SoCon
Winner
East Tennessee State ETSU
15-7, 1-1 SoCon
12
Final
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Western Carolina WCU
11-10, 1-1 SoCon
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
East Tennessee State ETSU 3 5 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 12 17 1
Western Carolina WCU 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 2

W: Ronne, Andrew (4-1) L: Spenser Hamblen (2-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Bucs roll past Western Carolina, 12-3

CULLOWHEE, N.C. (March 23, 2024) – The ETSU baseball team bounced back with a 12-3 victory on the road at Western Carolina on Saturday afternoon. Saturday's victory improves ETSU's overall record to 15-7 and 1-1 in SoCon play.
 
ETSU put together one of its best offensive games of the season on Saturday. The Bucs totaled 17 hits and worked five walks. ETSU tallied five doubles and launched three home runs in the win as well. Six different Buccaneers had multi-hit days on the afternoon. Nick Iannantone, Cameron Sisneros, and Noah Gent all had three-hit outings. Sisneros, Tommy Barth, and Ashton King all homered in the victory. Barth drove in three of ETSU's 12 runs, while King scored a team-high three times.
 
Andrew Ronne turned in his second straight stellar start. Ronne threw a career-high seven innings on Saturday where he allowed three runs on six hits to go with six strikeouts. Furthermore, the seven inning start by Ronne was the longest by any Buccaneer pitcher this season. Freshmen Tyler Fetterman and Cason Engert also logged scoreless appearances in the win.
 
ETSU came out ready to roll on Saturday. A leadoff single by Iannantone was followed two batters later by Sisneros and his sixth home run of the spring. An RBI single by Gent later in the inning staked the Bucs to a 3-0 lead before the Catamounts came up in the first.
 
The Bucs added to their lead in the second. Home runs by King and Barth came in the second before RBI doubles by JD Yakubinis and Gent pushed the Buccaneer advantage to 8-0. ETSU would add runs in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings but all the offense it needed on Saturday came in the first two innings.
 
The trio of Ronne, Fetterman and Engert held the Catamount offense in check with six hits on Saturday. With Saturday's win, it snapped Western Carolina's seven-game winning streak, which was the longest in the SoCon entering play on Saturday.
 
The rubber match between the Bucs and Catamounts will be played on Sunday afternoon. First pitch for that matchup is set for 1 p.m. on ESPN+.

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