Brandon Gibbs ties record and leads UHSP past Fontbonne

CLAYTON, MO – In what amounted to be a bullpen game, the Eutectics used eight different pitchers and the two runs the offense scored in the first was enough in a 4-1 win over Fontbonne.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

UHSP 4, FONTBONNE 1

• Brandon Gibbs led off the game with a single, stole second and came home on a throwing error by FBU starter Kendall Horton on a Holden Campbell single. After a pair of strikeouts, Caden Buxton came through with a two-out RBI single to shallow center to score Campbell and make it a 2-0 game.
• Brayden Steves began the parade of UHSP hurlers as he got the start and went just one inning striking out one and allowing one hit.
• Wyatt Waters followed to pitch the second and gave up a run on a hit with two strikeouts. Gavin Lyday hit his first homerun of the season to get the Griffins on the board in the second and make it 2-1.
• In the Eutectic fifth, Dustin Aleck doubled to lead off the frame and scored on a Gibbs single to left.
• Gibbs was involved in the final UHSP run as well in the ninth as he singled home Nolan Harding who had singled to make it 4-1.
• Logan Stribling gets the win as he tossed a scoreless, hitless third with a strikeout.
• Jacob Grim pitched the final two innings fanning three and walking one to collect his first save.
• Gibbs went 3-for-4 out of the leadoff spot scoring a run and driving in a pair. He also stole three bases in the game, becoming just the second Eutectic to ever steal three bases in a contest.  He joins Jovonnie Bautista who accomplished the feat last year.
• Barrett Bressette had the only other multi-hit day going 2-for-4.
• Fontbonne featured five different batters having one hit each.

UP NEXT:

The Eutectics (10-17, 6-10 AMC) will play eight of their next nine away from home. Only a Monday home date with Maranatha Baptist is sandwiched in between weekend conference four game series between Crowley's Ridge beginning this Friday and Columbia beginning next Friday, March 28. The series with the AMC-newcomers in the Pioneers (4-22, 4-12 AMC) begins Friday at 1:00p in Paragould, AR.