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Scarberry and Sanderson Each Go Deep, But Trojans Fall to Saints

Scarberry and Sanderson Each Go Deep, But Trojans Fall to Saints
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ANDERSON, S.C. - Senior Brett Scarberry and junior Erick Sanderson each posted home runs, but Anderson dropped a 10-6 decision to visiting North Georgia in non-conference baseball action Tuesday night at Memorial Stadium.

Anderson slipped to 10-26 on the season, while North Georgia improved to 15-14.

Scarberry finished 4-for-5 on the night and blasted his third homer of the season, a three-run shot, over the left-field fence in the sixth inning. Sanderson's homer, his fifth in the last four games, just clipped the top of the left-field fence as it sailed out of the park. He also crossed the plate three times. Sophomore Shawn Delmontagne added two hits in four at-bats and recorded an eighth-inning RBI, while freshman Brett Cash added a pair of singles.

Sophomore Kyle Francis (0-1) suffered the loss, giving up five runs on six hits in five innings of work. Sophomore Wes Coberly (3-2) picked up the win for the Saints, tossing five innings, while surrendering three runs off eight hits.

North Georgia jumped on top early, scoring three runs in the second inning, with the big blow a two-out two-run triple that reached the wall off the bat of Dustin Carpenter.

Sanderson answered with his lead-off homer in the bottom of the frame, but the Saints added solo runs in each of the next two innings to push their lead to 5-1 and added two more in the sixth.

Scarberry's three-run homer trimmed the deficit to 7-4, but North Georgia tacked on two in the seventh and one in the eighth before AU scored a pair of runs in the eighth on RBI-singles from Delmontagne and Thomas Padro.

The Trojans will face another Peach Belt-foe, Lander, Wednesday night at Fluor Field in Greenville. First-pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m.

* - During each home game, Mr. David Walker and Palmetto Insurance Associates sponsors the Jackpot Inning, - if the second Anderson University batter in the bottom of the fifth inning hits a home run out of the park, the lucky fan with the winning ticket wins $500

And that's exactly what happened to Pam Pendleton on Saturday, February 18 in the opening game of a doubleheader against Carson-Newman when Shawn Delmontagne hit a one-out solo home run to left-center in the fifth inning.

Head coach Joe Miller and Director of Athletics Nancy Simpson presented Pam with her $500 check Tuesday night.