Baseball -- State-ranked Patriots outslug Saints

By David Williams
Published in Sports on April 30, 2004 1:59 PM

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MOREHEAD CITY -- Southern Wayne suffered its seventh Eastern Carolina 3-A Conference defeat of the season after a 15-6 setback against state-ranked West Carteret on Thursday afternoon.

The host Patriots, No. 7 in the latest Impact Baseball.com poll, remained atop the league standings at 9-2.

The Saints' pitching staff of Ashton Langston and Matthew Holloman combined to give up 15 runs (14 earned) on 13 hits.

Nathan Fail, Matthew Holloman, Austin Hood and Josh Narron each had two hits for Southern Wayne. Holloman, Hood and Narron combined for five RBI.

David Combs added a hit and an RBI.

Trent Brooks paced West Carteret with three hits and two RBI.

Southern Wayne returns home next Tuesday against Washington.

So. Wayne 003 003 0 -- 6 11 1

West Carteret 008 304 x -- 15 13 0

Leading hitters -- Southern Wayne -- Nathan Fail 2-4; Matthew Holloman 2-4, 2 RBI; Austin Hood 2-4, 2B, RBI; Josh Narron 2-4, 2 RBI; David Combs 1-3, RBI. West Carteret -- Lonnie Chisenhall 1-4, 2 RBI; Clayton Pittman 1-3, 2B; Bruce Johnson 2-4, 2B, 3 RBI; Drew Poulk 2-3; Nick Martin 2-4, 2B, RBI; Trent Brooks 3-4, 2 RBI; Brad Campen 2-4, 2 RBI.

IP H R ER BB SO

Southern Wayne

Langston (L) 3 6 8 7 2 5

Holloman 3 7 7 7 3 4

West Carteret

Poulk (W) 3 5 3 3 2 7

Pittman 3 6 3 3 0 5

Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 1