Baseball | 3/15/2014 8:14:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The Methodist baseball team claimed a doubleheader sweep versus Maryville on Saturday afternoon at Armstrong-Shelley Field. The final scores were 5-4 and 10-3, respectively.
 
In the opener, the Monarchs trailed 4-2 entering the bottom of the ninth inning. The Scots had tallied runs via a fifth-inning three-run homer by Nick Dean, and later a run-scoring single by Dean in the seventh.
 
Facing Maryville reliever Matt Dyer, Methodist started its final turn to bat with a strikeout, but Chris Power hit a one-out single to begin the rally. After Power stole second, Pete Wildeboer and Stephen Nalls each walked to load the bases with one down.
 
Following a Travis Johnson popout, Tyler Hardee knotted up the game, 4-4, with a two-run single, and Nalls advanced to third on the throw to home plate. Now with runners on second and third and two down, Cody Molosky plated Nalls with an RBI single to left field to give the Monarchs the game one victory.
 
Molosky went 3-for-5 with two RBI for Methodist, and Power and Nalls each had two bases hits and two runs scored.
 
Travis Johnson made the start on the hill for the Monarchs, and pitched 8.0 innings in a no-decision. He gave up 10 hits, four runs and no walks and struck out three. Ross Leggett (1-0) earned the win in relief, as he threw a scoreless ninth with one strikeout.
 
Dean batted 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBI for Maryville, which finished game one with 10 hits overall. Matt Jones went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored.
 
Trevor Brackett started for the Scots, and was in the line for the victory after going 7.0 innings. He surrendered six hits, one run and three walks and struck out three. Dyer (2-1) took the loss as he threw 0.2 innings and gave up three hits, three runs and two walks.
 
Later in the afternoon, Methodist (12-4, 6-2 USA South) scored the first eight runs of the nightcap as it won, 10-3, over Maryville (8-6, 3-5 USA South).
 
Leading by a 1-0 margin through three frames, the Monarchs tacked on a combined seven runs in the fourth and fifth to go up 8-0.
 
To begin the bottom of the fourth, Alex Rodriguez singled and stole second, and Lucas Scott walked. On ball four, Rodriguez hustled down to third base as the pitch zipped by the Maryville catcher to put runners on the corners with none out.
 
Rodriguez ended up crossing the plate on Power's run-scoring single up the middle, which moved up Scott to second.
 
After Pete Wildeboer laid down a sacrifice bunt, Methodist had men on second and third with one out, and Nalls drove Scott in with a groundout to first base, but also reached safely on a bobble by the first baseman. Power would later cross the plate on Ray Lanners'  fielder's choice, which made it a 5-0 game.
 
In the fifth, the Monarchs put up a four-spot via a Rodriguez sacrifice fly and run-scoring hits by Scott, Wildeboer and Lanners, respectively, to claim an 8-0 edge through five complete innings.
 
The Scots scored their lone runs of game two when Landon Talley hit a three-run home run to right field off Greg Johnson in the top of the eighth, but still trailed by a 9-3 margin.
 
Power batted 3-for-5 with a triple and two runs scored for Methodist, which ended the nightcap with 13 base hits as a team. Wildeboer went 2-for-4 with two runs batted in, and Lucas Scott had two hits, two RBI and scored twice. Molosky was 1-for-2 with two runs scored, and also walked three times.
 
Game two starting pitcher Josh Howard (3-1) earned the win as he threw 7.0 scoreless innings. He scattered six hits and worked around three walks. He struck out two.
 
Talley went 1-for-3 with that three-run shot for Maryville, and Dean and Jones both had two-hit games. Seth Debity (1-2) was tagged with the loss as he went 4.0 innings. He gave up five hits, four runs and four walks and struck out one.
 
The Monarchs and Scots will complete their three-game series tomorrow morning when they play at 10:00 am.