Baseball Starts First Winning Streak, Obliterates Oakwood 27-9

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. – The Rust College baseball program scored four touchdowns while missing one extra point while allowing only a trio of field goals by the Ambassadors as the Diamond Cats put up football-like numbers during a 27-9 beatdown of Oakwood on Thursday.

The Basics: 

• Score (7 Innings)
• • Rust – 27
  • Oakwood – 9

• Records
• • Rust (5-16, 2-2 Gulf Coast)
  • Oakwood (0-11, 0-1 Gulf Coast)

• Location
• • Holly Springs, Mississippi – Bearcat Field

• Series History (Since 2011)
• • Rust Leads 7-0 (100%)

• Winning Streak (Since 2011)
• • Rust (W7) | Oakwood's Last Win: N/A

Rust Top Performers:

• Artavis Latting became the first RC pitcher with multiple wins this season, tossing three punchouts and walking just one over the opening two-and-two-thirds frames.

• The quartet of bullpen arms consisting of Tyler Keys (2.1), Tony Grandberry (1.0), Devin Tallington (0.2), and Ismeal Recio (0.1) gave up zero earned runs in the remaining four innings of relief, sitting down eight OU batters (four via Keys) and ceding only two hits.

• Out of the 14 separate student-athletes that made at least one plate appearance, 13 reached safely in some capacity (92.9%) while eight different players recorded hits.

• There were so many contributors, we will only list the primary stat leaders:

Next:

• Thursday's game was originally scheduled for Friday, but with the nasty weather expected to hit most areas of the South, the solo contest was moved up a day. The series will resume on Sunday afternoon with a doubleheader.

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