Pioneers perfect in season opening doubleheader
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Crowley's Ridge | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
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Baptist Bible | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Crowley's Ridge | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 0 |
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Baptist Bible | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
February 10, 2022
by Dustin Semore, Sports Information Director
JOPLIN, Mo. – Crowley's Ridge College opened their 2022 season in Missouri, taking on Baptist Bible (Mo.) College in the first doubleheader of a four-game weekend. The Pioneers took both games, first with a 3-1 pitcher's duel before shutting out the Patriots 7-0 in game two.
Game One
Crowley's Ridge – 3
Baptist Bible – 1
First inning fireworks were on tap for the season opener, with all four runs being scored in the opening frame.
Crowley's Ridge (1-0) had Bobby Wright jump on the first pitch of the 2022 campaign by lacing a single into right field. After moving to second base on Chipper Lamb's sacrifice, Trey Gossett drove home Wright with a double to right field. Austin Gross began his year with a bang, launching his second career homer over the left-field fence for a two-run home run.
With the ball in his hand with a 3-0 lead, Corbett Seib's (1-0) first batter pounded a pitch over the left-field wall to put the Patriots (0-5) on the board. Settling down, Seib allowed just one more hit in the game – striking out four and walking two in the win.
"He recovered fine," said CRC coach Brenden Camp. " Corbett basically had to take the whole first inning to get the feel for the [turf]. mound."
Pioneer sophomore Kole Simms tallied two of CRC's six hits with a pair of singles. Also recording a hit in his collegiate debut was Matthew Parker.
Game Two
Crowley's Ridge – 7
Baptist Bible – 0
A big third inning pushed the men in green to a game two victory. In his first plate appearance for the Pioneers, Corbett Seib launched a double but was unable to score.
Crowley's Ridge (2-0) threatened in the top of the second inning, loading the bases with one out; however, the Patriots (0-6) managed back-to-back strikeouts to send the Pioneers back to the dugout emptyhanded.
Seib led off the third inning with a single to left field, followed by a single to right off of the bat of Trey Gossett. Austin Gross laid down a single to the left side to load the bases with no outs. A wild pitch allowed Seib to plate the first run of the second game, before a bases-loaded walk brought in the second.
Newcomer Tanner Davis made noise in his first game in green and black, hitting a two-run double into right field. Garett Wilson hit a sacrifice fly to score Zorey Chipman to push the Pioneers to a 5-0 lead after three and a half.
After an RBI single from Bobby Wright in the fifth inning, a pair of untimely passed balls from the Patriots in the top of the seventh inning saw run seven to cross for the Pioneers.
On the bump, Jack Roney (1-0) went the distance, recording a six strikeout shutout.
Speaking to their opponents, Coach Camp said of Baptist Bible's first year of competition, "That team was not bad at all. For a young team, they're going to be pretty good in the near future."
Up Next
The Pioneers will run it back tomorrow for an early doubleheader against the Patriots with game one beginning at 10:00 a.m. at Joplin, Missouri's Joe Becker Stadium.