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Panthers drop 1, stay on top
Mt. Pleasant baseball team battles back after losing first SEC game
MT. PLEASANT — The Mt. Pleasant baseball team had its first setback of the Southeast Conference season on Monday night, but the Panthers bounced right back.
Burlington handed Mt. Pleasant its first SEC loss of the year, and did it in style, beating the Panthers 17-1 in Game 1. Mt. Pleasant punched right back with a 12-3 win in Game 2.
Game 1 was close until the top of the fourth inning, when Burlington turned a 2-1 lead into an 8-1 lead with a six-run fourth. The Grayhounds scored one each in the fifth and sixth, and piled on with seven in the seventh.
After going down 2-0 early in Game 2, the Mt. Pleasant offense came alive for four in the bottom of the first, one in the second, one in the third and two in the fourth to take an 8-2 advantage. Burlington scored one in the sixth but cut the lead back to five, but the Panthers went off for four more runs in the sixth.
After scoring 17 runs in Game 1, the Grayhounds struggled against Mt. Pleasant’s Payton Walker on the mound. Walker threw 6.2 innings, giving up just three runs (two earned), while striking out 11 batters.
The win allowed Mt. Pleasant to stay atop the SEC. The Panthers are now 12-3 overall and 7-1 in conference play, one game ahead of Fairfield for the league lead.
