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Govs get swept by ABAC	2009-02-21
In one game, it was just all around bad play. In the other game, it was simply one bad pitch. No matter how it happened, what happened was the Wallace Govs got swept by the Abraham-Baldwin Stallions Saturday afternoon. The Govs dropped the first game 9-6, then lost the nightcap of the double header 2-0.
“We just can’t play the way we played today if we expect to win games,” Wallace coach Mackey Sasser said. “That first game was just plain ugly. You just can’t give a team 27 outs when they are only supposed to get 21. That will get you beat every time.” What Sasser was referring to was a disastrous fifth inning. Relief pitcher Brett Birdsong entered the inning with a 5-2 lead. But after the Govs committed three errors and Birdsong hit three batters, Wallace came out of the inning trailing 7-5. Not a single one of the five runs the Stallions scored was earned. The Govs were able to get within a run in the bottom half of the inning, but that didn’t last long either. In the top of the sixth, reliever Matt Gannon walked one batter and then gave up a “no-doubter” two-run homer to Wesley Mitchell. The shot easily cleared the fence in the deepest part of center field. Wallace never threatened after that. Game two was a pitcher’s duel between the Govs’ Adam Oliver and the Stallions’ Jacob Gore. Both gave up only six hits. Neither team committed an error. But the difference came in the fifth inning. That’s when Oliver walked pinch-hitter Dexter Thomas, and promptly surrendered a two-run home to Patrick Daugherty. Those were the only runs scored in the game. Gore held the Govs in check the entire game. Only twice did Wallace get a runner in scoring position. “We weren’t able to do anything offensively,” Sasser said. “We didn’t get many hits and we certainly couldn’t come up with the big hit.” There was one bright spot in the game. Catcher Ryan Rennspies completely shut down the Stallions running game. Three times the Stallions attempted to steal second base. All three times Rennspies threw out the runners. Wallace is now 5-5 on the season. The Govs will play at Faulkner University in Montgomery Monday, and will host Gulf Coast Tuesday at 1 p.m. Nathaniel Frazier is Sports Information Director for Wallace College baseball. He can be reached at NFrazier@DothanEagle.com