Ramos Complete Game Lifts #20 Mocs Over Warriors in Series Opener

LAKELAND, Fla. – The No. 20 Florida Southern College baseball team won its series opener against Wayne State University by a 10-3 score on Friday night at Henley Field, the first of four games against WSU this weekend.
 
The Moccasins (20-5, 7-2 SSC) climbed to an early lead in the first few innings and kept the bats alive with 11 hits in the Friday night game. The Warriors (9-11, 0-0 GLIAC) could not recover from the early deficit, nor stop FSC in the final two innings in the 10-3 loss.
 
Noah Rabin had a big day for the Mocs, bringing in four runs, including a big three-run homer in the seventh inning. Grant Thoroman had two hits in today's game, extending his hit streak to 14 games this season. They were joined by Mikey Scott as multi-hit Mocs in today's game, compiling 6-of-11 team hits. Cleary Simpson, Rohsean Riley, Chris McKenna, Cory Filley, and Jevin Relaford were all single-hit batters in the lineup tonight. FSC had seven stolen bases, two by Scott and Thoroman to bring the team's season total to 111 through 25 games.
 
Sachem Ramos got his fifth win of the season after throwing the first nine-inning complete game since J.T. Hintzen threw nine innings in a 4-2 win over Tampa in the NCAA South Regional on May 22, 2018. He finished with 12 strikeouts with just one walk. He had two earned runs and gave up six hits in his 33 batters faced. Ramos finished the game in 117 pitches.
 
Wayne State had solo hit days by seven Warriors in the lineup, with single RBI credit to Tuccinardi, Hill, and Hatzigeorgio. DeMasse had the start for the Warriors, going six innings, allowing seven hits and four runs. He was relieved by Pulford, who went 0.1 innings before Hill moved to the mound from the DH spot to finish the remaining 1.2 innings.
 
Florida Southern opened the game with three straight innings of runs scored, two in the first inning off a homer by Simpson and an RBI single by Rabin. A wild pitch in the second added a run for a 3-0 lead before the Warriors scored their first run, an RBI groundout, for a 3-1 FSC lead. The Mocs made it a 4-1 score after a sac fly by Riley in the bottom of the third.
 
Neither team scored over the next three innings before an RBI groundout by WSU cut the FSC lead to two runs, 4-2. In the bottom half of the seventh, the Mocs had a big three-run homer by Rabin to jump to a 7-2 lead. FSC added another three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning for a 10-2 lead, including an RBI double by Thoroman and an RBI single by Riley. The Warriors had a single run in the top of the ninth but the Mocs emerged victorious, 10-3.
 
The Mocs will have a doubleheader against the Warriors tomorrow, March 22, set for a 1 p.m. start at Henley Field.
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