Pirates Swept On Final Day In South Carolina

The North Central Missouri College Pirates baseball team’s South Carolina swing ended with a pair of losses on Thursday. NCMC was defeated by Danville Community College 5-2 and followed that up with a 6-0 loss to Florence-Darlington Technical College.
Game one saw the Pirates fall behind early as Danville collected four runs in the bottom of the first inning. The Pirates yielded another run in the second, putting NCMC in a 5-0 hole early.
In the fourth inning, the Pirates got on the board with Tyler White belting a leadoff double to centerfield. He then advanced to third on a wild pitch before scoring on an RBI single by Cody Lee. Lee then advanced to second when Tyler Rathmann was hit by a pitch. Juan Taveras reached on an error in the following at bat, loading the bases for NCMC with no outs. Joan Rondon followed with a single, driving in the Pirates’ second run and keeping the bases loaded with no outs. Danville was able to stop the bleeding, however, retiring the next three batters on a line-out, foul-out and strikeout. The Pirates would not score again despite having two runners on in the fifth and another in the seventh. All totaled, the Pirates scored two runs on five hits, six walks and two Danville errors.
Nolberto Rondon took the loss on the hill, giving up four runs on two hits and three walks in two-thirds of an inning pitched. The Pirates used four pitchers in six innings.
Game two saw the Pirates struggle, both offensively and defensively. NCMC allowed 11 hits to Florence-Darlington and committed four errors in the game, all adding up to six runs allowed. The Pirates’ batters, meanwhile, collected five hits and were unable to cross the plate once.
Cody Wade was the losing pitcher for North Central allowing five runs on seven hits in three innings of work. JJ Wesley led the NCMC offense as the only player with a multi-hit game, collecting two.
With the two losses, NCMC fell to 5-8 on the season. The Pirates will look to bounce back on Tuesday, traveling to Highland, KS for a game against Highland at noon and a game against Indian Hills at 5 p.m..