BUCS/WHITECAPS SPLIT DOUBLE HEADER

Blinn and Whitecaps split Thursday’s doubleheader

GALVESTON, Texas – The Blinn baseball team scored 11 runs on 10 hits and sailed past the Galveston Whitecaps 11-1 in Game 1 of Thursday’s doubleheader.

Stephen Stuart knocked an RBI double and Nolan Brown hit a two-run double for the Buccaneers, who blew the game open with a seven-run seventh.

Galveston won the second game 3-0.

Freshman Caden Williams earned the win on the mound in the opener, tossing five innings of three-hit ball. Williams struck out two and walked one.

Blinn (18-12) jumped ahead early to a 1-0 lead in the first off a Cullen Gassaway sacrifice fly, then made it a 2-0 game in the top of the fourth when Williams scored on an error.

Galveston made it a 2-1 game in the bottom of the fourth, but Blinn added two insurance runs in the top of the sixth before running away in the seventh.

Brown was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI, Stuart was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Reed Robinson was 2-for-4.

Blinn pounded out 12 hits in the second game but could never get a timely knock to drive in any runs.

Robinson and Stuart had three hits.

Sophomore Robbie Dickey took the loss on the mound after tossing eight innings and allowing three runs on four hits and striking out seven.

Blinn and Galveston close out their four-game series at 2 p.m. Saturday at Leroy Dreyer Field.

The Bucs will host Adam’s Angels Night during Saturday’s doubleheader to sponsor Adam’s Angels Ministry, a non-profit organization founded by Donna and Tim Culliver of Brenham as a way to reach out to families that have been affected by childhood cancer. The Cullivers lost their 4-year-old son, Adam Christian Culliver, to acute myelogenous leukemia.

Proceeds from Saturday’s games will be donated to Adams Angel’s Ministry.

For more information on Blinn baseball, visit www.buccaneersports.com.

(Story & photos courtesy: Matt Keyser, Blinn Information)