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BPCC beats Panola 5-2 in second game of doubleheader to win series

BPCC beats Panola 5-2 in second game of doubleheader to win series

BOSSIER CITY, La. - The Bossier Parish Community College baseball team defeated Panola College 5-2 in game two of Saturday's doubleheader at the BPCC Baseball Field. The Cavaliers won the series taking two of the three games from the Ponies.

Trailing 1-0 in the fourth, the Cavaliers scored three runs in the inning to grab a 3-1 lead. Mason Hammonds doubled home Cole Ketzner, who reached on a lead-off walk then stole second. Three batters later, Gavin Baird's single drove in Hammonds and Jaden Adams, who had reached on a bunt single, to give BPCC the lead, one it would not relinquish.

After Panola cut the BPCC lead to 3-2 in the fifth, the Cavaliers would put the game away with a pair of runs in the eighth on Felix's sacrifice fly and Andrew Mills bases loaded walk.

Jayden Saylor got the win for BPCC as he surrendered four hits and two runs over four and a third innings. Zach Boyer earned the save by tossing three and two-thirds scoreless innings, allowing just one hit, walking one and striking out two.

Panola scored 12 runs on 10 hits en route to a 12-1 run-rule victory in game one. The Ponies scored seven runs in the second inning, one in the third and added four more in the fourth to cruise to the win.

With the doubleheader split today, the Cavaliers improve to 11-12 overall and 6-7 in Region XIV play.