ENMU baseball takes pair from Morehouse College

PEACHTREE CITY, Georgia — Eastern’s baseball team was able to start off strong in Friday’s Peachtree City Classic by sweeping two from Morehouse College, 8-5 and 12-2.

Winning both games lifted the Greyhounds to a 5-2 record.

In Friday’s first game, Eastern jumped all over Morehouse, taking a 7-0 lead by the top of the fifth inning before holding on for the 8-5 win.

The Hounds plated three in the top of the third, including Garlind Webster’s two-run double.

Reynaldo Guillen’s second-inning groundout scored Paul Tapia, and Alex DeLaCruz’s single knocked in Zach Shank, making it a 5-0 game.

Eastern added a Julian Heredia solo homer in the third and a Shank sac fly in the fifth to build the 7-0 lead. The Greyhounds added a sixth-inning insurance run when Eurick Perez singled DeLaCruz home, making the score 8-2 at the time.

Jonathan Joy worked five innings and improved to 2-0, scattering five hits, striking out six and walking none.

DeLaCruz had three hits for Eastern, followed by Tapia with two hits. Webster had two RBI on that first-inning double.

Eastern had an even bigger explosion of early-inning runs in the second game, scoring nine across the first three frames en route to a 12-2 rout of Morehouse.

Trailing 1-0 heading into the bottom of the first, a two-run Guillen homer and an RBI single from Tapia made it 3-1.

Two more Eastern runs scored in the bottom of the second, on an Endy Villalona RBI double and a DeLaCruz sac fly.

And in the bottom of the third, a Chris Padilla grand slam blew the game open, giving ENMU a 9-1 lead.

Padilla finished with those four RBI. He also had two hits and three runs scored.

DeLaCruz added two hits and two RBI. Guillen and Malcolm Smith had two RBI each.

Austin Paisar (1-0) earned the win, allowing five hits and two runs while striking out three in five innings of work. Andrew Montoya was perfect through the last two innings.

The Hounds play two more Peachtree Classic games today against Tuskegee (10:30 a.m.) and Clark Atlanta (1:30 p.m.).