Due West, SC – The #24th ranked Flying Fleet scored 10 runs in a three inning span to erase a 5-2 deficit and take a 13-8 victory over the Augusta State University Jaguars Thursday afternoon in non conference baseball action.

Augusta State would jump on the Fleet in the top of the first, taking advantage of a two out error to score five runs. The big blow for the Jaguars would be a grand slam from Carl Burrow. Erskine would make it a 5-2 game in the third inning when Chas Anthony (Pickens, SC, Pickens High School) lined a double off the center field wall to score two players. In the bottom of the fourth, Matt Youngblood (Travelers Rest, SC, Blue Ridge CC) would tie the game with a two run single. Zach McCarthy (Spartanburg, SC, Byrnes HS) would then put Erskine up by two with a two run home run. Leading 8-5 in the sixth, Bryan Fogle (Lexington, SC, Lexington High School) would put the game out of reach with a grand slam to make it a 12-5 game. The Jaguars would try to rally in the top of the ninth. After a lead off walk to Matt Smith and an Erskine error, Caleb Saggus would line a triple into the left center gap and then score on a sacrifice fly to make it 13-8. Austin Heflin (Summerville, SC, Pinewood Prep HS) would close out the inning and preserve the win.

Anthony led the Fleet going 3-5 with a double and two runs driven in, while Fogle was 2-5 with a home run and four RBI’s. Derek Smith (Lexington, SC, Lexington HS) (2-0) picked up the win allowing just two hits in 3.1 innings of relief and striking out six.

Burrow led the Jaguars going 2-4 with a home run and four RBI’s, while Saggus was 2-5 with a triple and two runs driven in. Chase Johnston (0-3) took the loss allowing 12 runs (nine earned) on 12 hits in 5.1 innings of work.

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