After a season opening series sweep at the hands of the Clemson Tigers a week ago, the Liberty baseball team returned home for four games this past week. The Flames began with a mid-week win over Radford and won 2 out of 3 games to win the series over the weekend against Seton Hall.
2/19 vs Radford W, 4-2
2/21 vs Seton Hall L, 5-4
2/22 vs Seton Hall W, 3-2
2/23 vs Seton Hall W, 5-3
Behind 5 innings of scoreless pitching from Mason Hand, Liberty was able to hold off former Big South rival Radford on Wednesday in a game that was rescheduled due to rain. Ben Highfill led the team with 3 RBIs in the win.
To open the weekend series, the Pirates were able to outlast the Flames on Friday night. Seton Hall was able to get to starter Mason Meyer and score 3 runs, 2 earned through 4 innings. They would add 2 more in the 7th off Mason Fluharty in relief.
Noah Skirrow shut down the Pirates bats on Saturday, pitching 6 and one-third innings of 3-hit baseball allowing just one unearned run. The Flames only mustered 4 hits on the afternoon but thanks to a couple of errors were able to plate the 3 necessary runs in the win.
In Sunday’s rubber match, Cam Locklear’s grand slam in the 3rd inning proved to be the difference as Garrett Price, Mason Fluharty, David Erickson, and Troy Britts combined to pitch 4 and one-third innings of scoreless baseball in relief of Joe Adametz.
Liberty will return to action Tuesday when it hosts Longwood at 4 p.m. The Flames then host Marist for a three-game series beginning Friday.
2/25 vs Longwood (2-6) 4 p.m.
2/28 vs Marist (2-4) 4 p.m.
2/29 vs Marist (2-4) 2 p.m.
3/1 vs Marist (2-4) 1 p.m.
The Lancers faced ASUN foe NJIT in a three game weekend series this past weekend. Marist is coming off a three-game series at George Washington where they lost two of three games.
