Scorching hot Flames visit Mossy Creek Wednesday
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Off to a 5-0 start to the year Lee travels to Carson-Newman Wednesday for a 2 p.m. opening tap as the Eagles will look to extend a three-game winning streak at Silver Diamond Baseball Complex.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Off to a 5-0 start to the year Lee travels to Carson-Newman Wednesday for a 2 p.m. opening tap as the Eagles will look to extend a three-game winning streak at Silver Diamond Baseball Complex.
During the three-game winning streak, the Eagles are reaching base at a .459 clip with nine different players producing at least two base hits. Carson-Newman (3-1) has scored 31 runs over that period and struck out a total of 17 times. Henry Jackson (Waxhaw, N.C.) has four extra-base hits in 11 at-bats with six RBIs and four runs scored.
On the mound, C-N pitchers have allowed 13 earned runs with 33 strikeouts in 23 innings pitched limiting foes to a .225 batting average. Despite allowing nearly half of lead-off batters to reach successfully, teams are 4-for-25, .160, with runners in scoring position over the last three.
Carson-Newman regained the series lead over Lee going on top 11-10 in the overall series with a 5-1 triumph at the Silver Diamond Baseball Complex on Feb. 19, 2020 behind a three-run home run from Kilian Daughtry in the fourth.
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Lee (5-0) has won seven of the last 10 meetings with five of the contests being decided by one run and one needing extra innings. The winning team has limited the foe to three runs or fewer in four of the last seven.
Lee has started the season with five wins in a row playing exclusively a Gulf South Conference schedule thus far. Dating back to 2020, the team has rattled off nine straight victories since losing 9-6 at Bellarmine on March 3. This season, the group swept Union in a three-game set and won a doubleheader over No. 19 Valdosta State on Friday.
To open the year coach Mark Brew's team was picked to finish sixth in the GSC with West Florida favored to win the league followed closely by Alabama-Huntsville. When 2020 shut down, Lee was fourth with a 6-3 conference record winning its final two series of the season.
The ball club was rebounding after a 23-26 record in 2019, their first losing season as a member of Division II. Brew has won over 500 games guiding the program to seven NAIA World Series Appearances before joining the NCAA ranks in 2014.
The Flames have outscored their opponents 39-15 to open the year with at least 11 hits in each of their last three games. Nine players have tallied multiple RBIs this season with Riley Black and Colton Yeager leading the way with seven apiece.
As a unit, Lee has produced 16 extra-base hits and stolen a pair of bases in as many attempts on the year. Four regulars have tallied at least six hits this year with 11 different players scoring a run through five games. Against Valdosta State, hitters struck out 19 times and drew only three walks.
The biggest strong suit for the club is on the mound where the hurlers have posted a 2.72 earned run average fanning 54 batters in 43 innings pitched. In four of the five games this year, the pitching staff has tallied at least 10 giving up only two long balls this year.
Starting pitchers Logan Workman and Seth Konkel are the top two flamethrowers combining for 35 of the team's 54 punch outs on the year. Out of the bullpen, Tyler Fairchild is the top option throwing 5 1/3 innings so far with five strikeouts and one earned run allowed.
In the field the Flames have played fairly clean defensively with a total of four errors through the first five games of the year. The backstops have caught one of four would-be base stealers and have one passed ball.
Wednesday's affair can be heard or seen on the Eagle Sports Network by visiting cneagles.com/live for the broadcast from the Silver Diamond Baseball Complex.
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