Will Cherry homered twice and drove in three runs in the Moccasins' first-game 4-1 win of Saturday's doubleheader at Florida Tech, but the Panthers took the second game 12-2.
Trailing 1-0 going to the seventh in game one, the Moccasins struck for three runs. After Zach Maggard led off the inning with a single, Cherry hit his first home run of the day to give the Mocs the lead. Colin Kaline singled home Colin Kish with the third run of the inning. Cherry added a solo homer in the ninth, his 11th of the season.
Stephen Batman worked 6.2 innings to pick up his fifth win in six decisions. He scattered five hits, allowed just one run, struck out nine and walked three. After Ryan Wolfe finished the seventh and pitched the eighth, Daniel Tillman retired the Panthers in order in the ninth to earn his fifth save.
In the seven-inning second game, the Moccasins and Panthers were tied 2-2 through four innings before the Panthers scored four times in the fifth and broke the game open with a six-run sixth. Colin Kish had a pair of singles in the game, but was the only Moccasin with more than one hit, as the Panthers' Matt Koch limited FSC to five hits. Matt Zoltak, who relieved starter Ken Wadsworth in the fourth, took the loss.
The sixth-ranked Moccasins are 19-5 overall, 2-1 in the SSC. Florida Tech is 17-9, 3-3 in the SSC. The Moccasins play St. Michael's (Vermont) Monday at 7 p.m. at Henley Field.
