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Box Score 2 FRANKLIN, Ind. – The Franklin College baseball team had a pair of games on tap at John P. McDowell Field on Saturday (Mar. 13), taking on the Anderson Ravens.
In game one, the Grizzlies (3-3) rallied from four runs down in the final half of the game to take a 9-6 decision. Game two saw the roles reverse, with the Ravens (2-2) shaking off an early deficit and hold off a late rally for an 11-8 win.
Game One: Franklin 9 – Anderson 6
Franklin struggled to get their bats going and the Ravens held a 4-0 lead when the Grizzlies came to bat in the bottom of the sixth. The bottom of the Franklin lineup set the tone for the ensuing comeback with Tysen Lipscomb leading off the inning with a double and scoring one batter later on Jake Bryant's first career home run. Quenton Wellington doubled in a run and Nick Wright tied the game with a groundout before Sean Sullivan's RBI triple put Franklin in front for good.
Franklin added four runs in the eighth with RBIs from Logan Demkovich, Jackson Young, Bryant and Garrett Ramsey.
Mitch Merica (1-0) worked 3 1/3 innings in relief to earn the win. Krae Sparks allowed three earned runs with four strikeouts over the game's first 5 2/3 innings. Wellington and Lipscomb both went 3-for-5 to lead Franklin's offense.
Game Two: Anderson 11 – Franklin 8
Franklin's first inning featured an RBI double from Demkovich and Sullivan's first career home run, a three-run blast that put Franklin in front 4-1. Anderson battled back to tie the game in the third but Franklin answered with a two-out, two-run triple from Bryant to take a 6-4 lead.
The fourth and fifth innings proved disasterous for the Grizzlies with Anderson scoring six runs total. The Ravens added another in the eighth to stretch the lead to 11-6 but Franklin looked to rally with two runs in the ninth on a Garrett Ramsey RBI double. The Grizzlies had the tying run at the plate with two outs but their luck would run out.
Lipscomb was the lone Grizzly with multiple hits in game two, giving him five for the day. Nick McClanahan got the start and struck out four over 2 1/3 innings.
