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Box Score 2 Boca Raton, Florida – After a victory for the Fighting Knights Friday night, they could not replicate their performance tonight. The sailfish took the double-header and win the series 2-1.
INSIDE THE MATCHUPS:
Game 1 Final: Palm Beach Atlantic 7 Lynn 6
Records: Palm Beach Atlantic(8-2, 1-1 SSC), Lynn (5-4, 1-1 SSC)
Location: J.M. "Jake" Rubin Park| Palm Beach, Florida
All-Time Series: Lynn leads 1-0
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Game 2 Final: Palm Beach Atlantic 9 Lynn 8
Records: Palm Beach Atlantic (6-4, 2-1 SSC), Lynn (8-3, 1-2 SSC)
Location: J.M. "Jake" Rubin Park| Palm Beach, Florida
All-Time Series: Lynn leads 2-0
HOW IT HAPPENED (GAME 1):
- Lynn got out to slow start in the first inning against Palm Beach Atlantic. The Sailfish scored three runs to a take 3-0 after the first.
- Jordan Winston picked up his third start of the season against the Sailfish. Winston allowed five hits in four innings to keep things close.
- Palm Beach Atlantic had the only run in the third inning, extending their lead 4-0.
- The Fighting Knights came storming back in the top of the fourth. Ryan Ford had a lead off hit up the middle to start the inning.
- Yuzuki Okamura followed it up with a double to left center, getting them both in scoring position. Anthony Sanabria was walked to make the bases loaded.
- Daniel Alfonso crushed a grand slam to tie the game 4-4 in the top of the fourth inning.
- Ford scored the only run of the inning for Lynn, with a home-run to take a 5-4 lead midway through the fifth inning.
- Nate Shane came to relieve Winston at the bottom of the fifth.
- Palm Beach Atlantic had a big fifth inning with three runs to regain a 7-5 advantage.
- Jose Martinez was subbed in at pitcher to start the sixth inning. Martinez got things going in the seventh, striking out two batters in the inning.
- The Fighting Knights tried to make a spirited comeback in the ninth inning. Matt Archer smashed a double through the right side to lead off the inning.
- Peter Avino singled to right field to bring home Archer, making it a 7-6 game. Lynn fell short leaving the tying run in scoring position.
- Ford led the way for the Fighting Knights with three hits and an RBI in the game.
- Daniel Alfonso had four RBI's to lead the team with a grand slam in the fourth inning.
HOW IT HAPPENED (GAME 2):
- The Fighting Knights flipped the script in the second game of their double-header. Lynn got on the board first with one run scored in the top of the first inning
- Anthony Orrico hit a single up the middle in the first at-bat of the game. Back to back walks in the inning put Byron Murray in scoring position.
- Anthony Sanabria followed it up with a single to right field to bring home Murray.
- Marvin Guzman received his third start of the season.
- Palm Beach Atlantic replicated their first inning in game one, with three runs scored to take 3-1 lead.
- Lynn made it a 3-2 game midway through the second inning. Brandon Kruzinski hit a single for the first hit of the inning. A wild pitch put Kruzinski in scoring position a play later.
- An error by the Sailfish allowed Kruzinski to score the only run in the inning for the Fighting Knights.
- Marvin Guzman bounced back after a slow first inning, going three up and three down. Guzman threw three straight strikeouts to retire the side.
- Lynn used their momentum after the second inning to take a 4-3 lead midway through the third. Matt Archer hit a lead off double to center field at the beginning of the inning.
- Murray hit a single to right field, bringing home Archer in the very next at-bat.
- Joseph Rosselli would hit a single up the middle, bringing home Ryan Ford to regain the lead.
- Guzman with strikeouts for out two and three to close the third inning.
- Lynn was able to get one run in the inning by Orrico. Four Lynn players were walked in the inning to make it a 5-3 lead.
- Nathan Draves relieved Guzman in the bottom of the fourth inning. Guzman finished with six strikeouts in only 3.1 innings pitched.
- The Sailfish scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to take a 7-5 lead.
- In the sixth inning the Fighting Knights scored one run, cutting into the Sailfish lead. Murray doubled through the left side with two outs in the inning. Murray was able to reach home plate, with multiple multiple wild pitches by the Sailfish.
- Palm Beach Atlantic scored one run in the seventh inning, to make it a 8-6 lead.
- The Fighting Knights picked up two runs in the eighth inning to tie the game at eight.
- Jake Buxbaum entered the game to relieve Draves in the bottom of the eighth. Draves pitched four innings, allowing four hits, and throwing three strikeouts.
- The first two batters were walked in the inning for Lynn, putting a runner in scoring position with no outs. A Ford single to right field brought Orrico home for the first run of the inning.
- Sanabria hits a single up the middle in the very next at-bat, bringing home Murray for the tying run.
- The Sailfish hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the tenth to get a 9-8 victory.
UP NEXT:
The Fighting Knights will return home to face Saint Leo on Friday, February 25, at 2:30 P.M.
About the Lynn University Fighting Knights
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