Lost amid the frivolity and glory of women’s basketball, the weekend was crowded elsewhere with Blue Hose activity.
Elton Pollock’s baseball team defeated the host Memphis Tigers, its second straight victory at the Grind City Classic, but fell in its final game to Butler.
Charlie McDaniel’s seven innings on the mound, a rarity for a team that typically uses multiple hurlers, often two innings at a time. He gave up three hits, a run and a walk, while striking out three in the 4-1 victory.
Kyle Mueller closed out, earning his first save. Joel Dragoo hit all he hadn’t previously, lashing his first triple.
The Blue Hose got all the runs they wound up needing in the first inning on Rhogue Wallace’s RBI single and added another on Jackson Hugus’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly.
Dragoo’s three-bagger drove in the third run in the second, scoring Brody Fahr. Dragoo, Fahr and Mikah Connor each connected twice, with Connor doubling as Presbyterian added its final run in the third.
Pierre Seals homered in the fifth to give Memphis (7-9) its lone run. Seals, Will Marcy, Austin Baskin, Daunte Stuart and Seth Cox collected the Tiger hits. Cox’s was a double.
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Butler (6-7) defeated Presbyterian (9-7) in the finale, 4-1.
Jay Wetherington singled in the third inning, stole second and wound up scoring on Fahr’s sacrifice fly to give the Blue Hose a short-lived lead.
Carter Dorighi led the Bulldogs with two hits. Joey Urban and Brian Drumm each doubled.
Both teams had five hits.
Losing pitcher Fenix DiGiacomo (1-1) also toiled seven innings, and only one of the two runs he surrendered was earned. He struck out 12 and only walked one.
Grant Brooks (1-0) got the win with five innings of work, and Ben Whiteside earned his second save, who retired all five of the PC batters he faced.
The Blue Hose visit The Citadel on Tuesday
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Jenna Greene (4-6) earned her 53rd career victory in PC’s 5-2 softball victory over Jacksonville (9-13) in that Florida city on Sunday afternoon.
After freshman Kasey Wolfe drove in Kaitlyn Tucker on a sacrifice fly, the Dolphins tied it fleetingly, scoring two runs in the third inning for a 3-2 edge.
David Williams’ team managed a pair in the top of the fourth and two more in the seventh. (the first on a Jacksonville error and the second on another run-batted-in by Wolfe), adding a couple insurance scores in the 7th for their eighth win overall this spring.
Presbyterian (8-15) banged out 11 hits.
Greene, who pitched her 60th complete game, didn’t allow a hit in the final three frames. She allowed two runs, six hits and five walks, striking out two.
Christa Prichard (1-1) took the loss.
Tucker, Jillian Hewes, Emma Yanes and Kara Starnes cracked two hits apiece for the Blue Hose. Tucker and Hewes lined doubles.
The Blue Hose travel to Cullowhee, N.C., for two against Western Carolina (3-11) on Tuesday at 2 and 4 p.m.
Winthrop visits on the weekend in the first Big South series.
A pair of PC softball hurlers are Big South players of the week.
Jenna Greene is the top player, and Kasey Wolfe is the top freshman.
It’s the first time PC players have been chosen by the league for weekly awards in the same week since May 2, 2022.
They each for a week in which the Blue Hose picked up an eight-inning triumph against Wofford and a road victory over Jacksonville.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Presbyterian (8-6) completed women’s wrestling season with three – Madeline Kubicki (143 pounds), Cassia Zammit (130) and Henlee Haynes (170) earning the designation of freshman All-America at the national championships with each finishing in the top 10.
They were fifth, fourth and 10th, respectively.
In New Rochelle, N.Y., 15th-ranked Iona (3-1) defeated PC (2-2) by a score of 262.710-247.860, on Sunday afternoon.
Having no idea what the following are, it can be reported that PC scored 9.45 with its Compulsory Event Pyramid heat with Iveren Asom, Avery Michowski, Anna Ruiz, Kendra Henige, Caroline Holter, Camryn Philson, Victoria Smith, Sofia Cipriani, Robyn Beeman, Abby Katz, Maya Reyes, Jaleigh Richmond and Kat Iacobelli posting a score of 9.45.
The Open Pyramid team of Adyson Stancil, Ruiz, Katz, Richmond, Holter and Iacobelli recorded a score of 9.60.
Katz tallied a score of 9.40 in the Open Pass of TumblingThe Blue Hose finish their spring-break trip at Long Island University on Thursday at 6 p.m
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