Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Niners baseball explodes for 31 runs

North Carolina A&T walked 12 batters and committed nine errors in the field, while the Charlotte 49ers stole seven bases en route to a 31-1 victory Tuesday night at Hayes Stadium. It was the largest margin of victory ever for a Charlotte team and one run shy of the school record for runs in a game.

Charlotte’s first three batters of the game walked, which later led to two runs on a sacrifice fly and back-to-back infield singles. The Niners (17-12) scored six in the first inning on just two hits and four Aggies errors.

The Niners batted around in three different innings and third baseman and former Independence High star Aaron Bray came to the plate eight times in the contest. Sophomore designated hitter and relief pitcher Ryan Rivers hit his team-leading ninth home run of the season and drove in a career-high seven RBI in the contest, just one shy of the school record.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Green Meanies...
Where is the love, the compassion for minority teams?

ch49r said...

can you believe we gave up that one run? dang it! nice job NINERS!

Anonymous said...

Why would you need to score 31 runs, anyway? I suppose they needed the confidence boost after getting beat down the past few weeks.

Anonymous said...

Anon, if you read the first two lines... "North Carolina A&T walked 12 batters and committed nine errors in the field" you would know that it was reasonably easy to get on base. If the Aggies' pitchers got the ball near the plate the 49ers hit the ball, 24 times.

Sleeper said...

When they can sweep a series in the A-10 against a top team, then that would impress me. Overall team is lacking leadership this year and beating A&T so badly just shows that A&T lacked pitching to let it get so out of hand. Need leaders to step up for the team to thrive.

Tim said...

annonymous - you sir are an idiot. 12 walks and 9 errors = lots of runs

Anonymous said...

I wish the basketball team could score 31 points.

Anonymous said...

What the he11 is wrong with the poster that asks about compassion for "minority teams"? This ain't the welfare and food stamp line, nor is it public scool or little league. You lace 'em up at the college level and compete.

I applaud UNCC for playing the game the way it's supposed to be palyed - may the best team win! It's obvious NC A&T isn't that team.

Anonymous said...

Can't we all just get along...?

camfinch said...

Anonymous 11:03, the "compassion" poster was not being serious, but satirical.

Anonymous said...

12:59, Charlotte had cleared the entire bench by the 6-7th inning. They were not TRYING to run up the score, but you can't ask those guys to quit playing!

Anonymous said...

If they were not running up the score, why did they need to steal 7bases? Also, if they cleared the bench by the 6th inning, how did a starter bat 8 times?

Anonymous said...

Here's a thought. Maybe the other team should GET BETTER.

Anonymous said...

5:58----most of those steals were in the early innings. As for the starter (Bray) batting 8 times, we batted around atleast 8 times and Bray was the only starter still playing in the 7th inning.

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