Box Score WALESKA, Ga. – The no. 17 St. Thomas University (STU) Baseball team (4-0) bolstered their way in the 2019 rematch of the title game against no. 5 Tennessee Wesleyan University (4-1) picking up the upset victory, 9-1, in game one of the Southeast Rumble hosted by Reinhardt University.
 
Game Notes

• Gio Soto got the starting nod for the Bobcats for the second time this season.
• St. Thomas scored in five of the nine innings, putting up crooked numbers in three of those five.
• Ezequiel Valdez got the offensive going in the second inning blasting his first homerun as a Bobcat.
• The two-run shot put STU in the driver's seat, and they never looked back.
• Tennessee Wesleyan erased one of the runs in the bottom half of the second to make it 2-1.
• The bats came alive in the later innings starting in the top half of the sixth.
• Josue Rangel had a big RBI-double that gave St. Thomas some insurance.
• Chris Schoeller had the highlight of the seventh inning adding a two-run homerun himself to give the Bobcats a healthy lead at 6-1.
• Valdez had the cherry on top going deep for the second time in the game in the top of the ninth for another two-run shot to make it 9-1.
• Soto picked up his first win on the year going five innings, striking out seven, and only allowing one earned run.
• The bullpen continued to slam the door not allowing a run in the final four innings.
• Fernando Medina threw two innings allowed one hit and fanned five hitters.
• Jose Machado threw one inning giving up one hit and struck out two.
• JJ Teixeira closed It out with an inning of his own walking two and picking up one strikeout.

 
Box Score Notables

• Ezequiel Valdez has reached safely multiple times in each game this year.
• STU has double-digit hits in three of their four games played.
• This is the first top five win since April 24, 2021 against #2 Southeastern.
• The Bobcats scored in the sixth through ninth inning.
• Bobcat pitchers fanned fifteen batters in the contest.

 
Up Next
Bobcats will continue the Southeast Rumble with a double-header tomorrow taking on Taylor University and no. 6 Faulkner University in Lake Point, Ga. starting at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. respectively.