College of Charleston
Georgia Southern
Marmol Sets School Mark; CofC Downs GSU, 19-6
4/13/2007 4:00:00 AM | Baseball
Oliver Marmol banged out a school-record six hits and 27th-ranked College of Charleston scored 12 runs in the third inning en route to a 19-6 win over Georgia Southern in the opener of its three-game Southern Conference series before 1,514 at J.I. Clements Stadium on Friday.
With the win, Charleston's seventh in a row, the Cougars improved to 26-8 overall and 9-1 in league play. The Eagles fell to 19-19 and 2-8. Game two of the series is Saturday at 1:30.
Marmol had singles in the first, third, fourth and fifth innings. He led off the eighth with a double and broke the school record with a two-run homer to left center in the ninth, his fourth of the year. Marmol added a stolen base, four runs scored and three RBI.
Charleston broke at 1-1 third inning tie when they sent 18 batters to the plate in the top of the third inning scoring 12 times on 11 hits. Both the 12 runs and 11 hits tied Charleston records for most in an inning. Ben Lasater and Gabe Marchant hit three-run homers in the frame and finished with four RBI each on the night. Marchant's blast was his sixth of the season and cleared the pine trees down the right field line. Lasater's shot cleared the batter's eye in center field and was his team's-leading eighth of the season.
For Charleston, Chris Campbell added two hits and four RBI, while Michael Harrington had four hits including a school-record tying three doubles. Graham Maiden had three hits as part of the Cougars' 24-hit attack.
Jeremiah Parker and Chris Shehan homered for the Eagles, who also got three hits from Matt Miller.
Nick Chigges (6-0) picked up the win allowing three runs with nine strikeouts over the first six innings. Brian Wilkerson (4-6) suffered the loss surrendering seven runs on nine hits over two innings of work.
Notes
- Charleston also scored 12 runs in the seventh inning of a 15-4 win over Stetson on May 9, 1998 at Remley's Point Field ... the Cougars tallied 12 runs in the sixth inning of a 20-1 win over Campbell on April 2, 2004 at Patriots Point Field ...
- It was the most runs scored by a Cougar team in the third inning all-time breaking the record of 10 runs scored on two other occassions ...
- Harrington became the seventh Cougar to record three doubles in a game ... the last was Joey Friddle in an 11-0 win over Ball State in the second round of the Lexington Regional on June 3, 2006 ...
- CofC's 11 hits in the third inning was the most since tallying 11 hits in the sixth inning versus Campbell on April 2, 2004 ...
- Charleston's previous record for most hits by an individual in a game was five on seven other occassions ... the last by Lee Curtis in a 7-6 win over Furman in the first round of the Southern Conference Tournament at Joe Riley Park on May 22, 2002 ...
- Stuart Haywood, Campbell, Harrington and Lasater tied the school record with two hits in the third inning ... it happened 17 other times and was the first time since John McCarty had two hits in the third inning of Charleston's 11-9 win over The Citadel at Remley's Point Field on April 28, 2000.
- Marmol's seven at bats tied the school record for most in a game ... it was the 20th time in school history and the first since Larry Cobb had seven at bats in Charleston's 5-4, 16-inning win over Notre Dame in the first round of the Lexington Regional on June 2, 2006.
