By: Justin Hargrove, NTCC Assistant Athletic Director
Northeast Texas Community College baseball could not hold the lead against the Carl Albert State College Vikings in a road game this Tuesday. The Eagles led 7-6 in the bottom of the ninth inning when Jaylen Patterson hit a two-run homer to steal the victory.
The base paths were crowded in this high-scoring game. Carl Albert collected 13 hits and the Eagles had nine. NTCC got on the board first after Andy Deleon singled and then stole second base, Deleon later scored to put the Eagles up 1-0. The Eagles scored 3 more runs in the top of the third behind the hitting of Cody Cleveland and Matt Scheurich to lead 4-0. The lead was short led as Carl Albert scored 4 runs in the bottom of the third to tie the game at 4-4.
The Vikings scratched out another run in the 4thto take the lead 5-4. In the top of the fifth inning, NTCC regained the lead after Jonathan Carrillo laid down a sacrifice bunt, scoring one run and John Michael Russ scored off a Scheurich double to left.
Both NTCC and Carl Albert would plate runs in the seventh inning giving the Eagles a 7-6 lead over the Vikings.
Hunter Riley took the loss for NTCC after allowing three hits and two runs over the final one and two-thirds innings, striking out one and walking zero.
Scheurich and Russ each had multiple hits for NTCC with Scheurich going 3-for-4 at the plate to lead the Eagles in hits. Despite playing error free ball, NTCC could not come away with the win.
You can catch NTCC at home again Saturday against BPCC starting at 1:00 p.m.
