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Four solo home runs in the first game and a balk call in the second game enabled the Moccasins to sweep their Sunshine State Conference doubleheader with first-place Lynn, 6-2 and 7-4, Saturday at Henley Field.
Mike Snyder belted a pair of homers and Austin Chubb and Brad Carlton also homered to give the Moccasins the first-game win. Snyder and Chubb hit back-to-back shots in the bottom of the first inning, Snyder homered again in the seventh and Carlton homered in the eighth. Snyder has six homers for the season, Chubb leads the team with seven and Carlton's was his second. In addition to the home runs, Keith Curcio and Kyle Gibbs each had two hits.
Clay Chapman went 5.2 innings to earn his third win in five decisions. He struck out five and walked one. After a nearly two-hour delay due to rain and lightning, Jake Guengerich and Nate Carter finished up in relief.
The balk call came in the fifth inning of the seven-inning second game against Lynn’s Andre Colon. It brought home Curcio, who had tripled, and gave the Moccasins a 3-2 lead.
The Moccasins tacked on four insurance runs in the sixth on an RBI-single by Colin Kish, a two-run single by Cory Jensen and a Lynn error and it turned out they needed those runs. Lynn scored twice in the top of the seventh and had the bases loaded before Carter struck out Anthony Boza, who had homered in each game, to end the contest. The strikeout came just after Boza had belted a long drive over the left field fence that was ruled foul.ÂÂ
Jon Jones picked up the win to improve his record to 3-4 and Carter notched his seventh save. Curcio, Gibbs, Kish and Kyle Jackson each had two hits for the Moccasins. The win gave coach Pete Meyer his 300th career coaching win at FSC.
FSC is 18-13, 8-7 in the SSC. Lynn is 21-10, 5-4 in the SSC.
The Moccasins play the Baltimore Orioles in an exhibition game Monday at 7 p.m. at Sarasota.
