ANDERSON, S.C. - The Anderson University baseball team pounded out 24 hits but dropped a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader, 9-3 and 7-5, to visiting Carson-Newman Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.

Anderson (3-9, 0-3 SAC) suffered its sixth consecutive setback, as Carson-Newman (6-5, 3-0 SAC) swept the three-game weekend series.

Game #1
Carson-Newman 9, Anderson 3

Sophomore Shawn Delmontagne was 2-for-4 with a fifth-inning home run and two RBI, while senior Brett Scarberry and sophomore Paul Como each added a pair of hits in four trips to the plate, with Como scoring twice. Senior third baseman Blake May was also 2-for-4 with a pair of singles.

Carson-Newman got on the scoreboard with four runs in the second inning and never trailed in the opener, adding another run in the fourth and two in the fifth to jump out to a 7-0 lead before the Trojans scored on Delmontagne's solo one-out home run over the left-center field wall.

Anderson added another run in the seventh on a pair of hits and following two runs by the Eagles in the ninth, AU tallied its third run of the contest to set the final score.

Freshman Landon Beck (0-3) absorbed the loss for AU, allowing seven earned runs, while striking out five and walking three in five innings. Junior Chris Armstrong (1-1) earned the win for Carson-Newman, going seven complete innings and striking out eight, while not surrendering a walk.

Game #2
Carson-Newman 7, Anderson 5 (8 innings)

Sophomore Zach Reeves finished the game 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored, while shortstop Thomas Padro recorded a pair of singles and a walk and crossed the plate once. Junior Tony Price was 2-for-4 with a run scored and two RBI, while freshman Brett Cash added two singles in four trips o the plate.

In a game scheduled for seven innings, the Trojans rallied for three runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score and answered an Eagle run in the top of the seventh frame with one of their own in the bottom of the frame to force extra innings.

Carson-Newman jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning, with AU responding with a run in the bottom of the third to trim the deficit to two. Trojan hurler Erick Sanderson settled down to hold the Eagles to just two hits and one unearned run over the next three innings, while the Trojan bats came alive to plate three runs in the bottom of the sixth and even the score at 4-4.

The Eagles regained a brief one-run lead in the seventh, but Anderson answered once again in the bottom of the frame, as Sanderson led off the inning with a single past the shortstop and moved into scoring position freshman Kyle Bailey's sacrifice bunt. With one out, he went to third as Delmomtagne bounce out to second and Sanderson evened the score when Tony Price beat out an infield single that the C-N shortstop was unable to gather in. Padro followed with a walk, but AU was unable to push across the winning run.

Carson-Newman plated two runs in the eighth and the Trojans were unable to answer.

Anderson will get back in action Tuesday at archrival Erskine. First-pitch in Due West is slated for 2 p.m.