BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Miles played a three-game series against Lynn this weekend and after dropping two close decisions, the bottom fell out in the final game as the Golden Bears (4-5) were swept by the Knights (5-1).
Reeves Brashear had an outstanding weekend, hitting .500 with four extra-base hits and helped Miles take a first-inning lead in each game of the series.
GAME 1: Lynn 5, Miles 3
William Donohoo (1-1) pitched five solid innings but one costly frame gave the Knights all they would need to secure the win. Brashear doubled to lead off the game and would score on a two-out hit from
Alex Bentley to give Miles a 1-0 lead. But in the fourth, Lynn scored four times - three of the runs unearned as a throwing error on a sacrifice bunt opened the floodgates - to take the lead.
Miles would get one of those runs back in the fifth when Brashear would drive in pinch runner
Roderick Ransom with a two-out single. But more struggles defending a sacrifice bunt, this time by Donohoo (5 IP, 8H, 1 ER, 3 K), led to another unearned run in the sixth for the Knights. The Golden bears, though, would make it interesting in the seventh.
Kolby Brannon led off with a single but pinch runner
Malik Moses was thrown out trying to steal. Ransom would follow with a single and after pinch hitter
Will Cantey grounded out,
Trevor Bates doubled to drive home Ransom and bring Brahsear to the plate as the tying run. Unfortunately, Brashear would ground out and the Knights would escape with the win.
GAME 2: Lynn 7, Miles 5
Brashear hit the first pitch of the game out to left but the defense let the let the Golden Bears down in the bottom of the frame as the Knights would score three unearned runs off
Dylan Johnson (1-1). A RBI double by Gabe Gomez in the second and a two-run homer by Tyler Green in the third gave Lynn a 6-1 advantage before Miles began its comeback.
A RBI groundout in the fourth by Cantey scored Bentley, who drove in his own run in the fifth with a single that scored
Ryan Bargery to make the score 6-3.
Xavius Burden relieved Johnson (5 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K) in the sixth to push the Lynn advantage to 7-3. For the second straight game, Miles came alive in its final at-bat. Ransom was hit by a pitch and Cantey walked, sending the Knights to their bullpen, Ransom and Cantey would execute a double steal and both would score, first on a RBI ground out from Bates, then a run-scoring double from Brashear that brought the tying run to the plate with one out. But Bargery and
Jacob Bisharat could not extend the game, sending the Golden Bears to defeat.
GAME 3: Lynn 20, Miles 3
The only similarity between this game and the first two was the start. Brashears led off with a double and would score on a sacrifice fly by Burden to give the Golden Bears and early lead. But Patrick Dorrian hit a solo home run off
Jacob Schuster (1-1) with two outs in the first to tie the game and it was mostly downhill from there.
Dorrian would hit for the cycle, going 4-for-4 with seven RBI as the Knights would batter seven Miles pitchers for 20 hits. The Golden Bears had just six hits but one of them was a two-run homer by
Lavontae LaCount in the fifth inning. But by then, Lynn still led 10-3 and ultimately would tack on 10 more as it had multiple four-run and five-run innings.
UP NEXT: The Golden Bears are scheduled to host North Greenville for a doubleheader on Feb. 14 at historic Rickwood Field. First pitch is set for noon.
