Late Rally Falls Short As Miscues Send Bearcats To Losers Bracket

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Rust College baseball program put up a four-spot in the ninth but allowed five unearned runs and walked ten Tigers, falling into a 9-2 deficit that it could not recover from during the Opening Round of the Black College World Series.

Malik Berrien was the only player in Blue and White with a multi-hit or multi-RBI outing as well as a stolen base, going 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs, swiping one bag, and scoring once.

Neither Mark Hubbard Jr. nor Khalil Robinson registered a hit, but both drove in a run each as the former did so on a groundout on top of making a spectacular diving catch in right field while the latter lofted a sacrifice fly in the first to open the scoring.

Brent Jackson got the ball to start the evening, tossing five quality innings while averaging a strikeout per frame and surrendering just one earned run (two total).

Cohen Keats finished off the opening day of competition with 1.1 innings in which he did not allow a hit or a earned run, blowing two strikeouts past batters out of his four putouts.

The third-seeded Baseball Bearcats will battle the fourth-seeded Talladega College Tornadoes on Thursday night at 8 p.m. for a shot to stay alive inside Riverwalk Stadium.

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