Hampden-Sydney Tigers baseball team fell behind 11-4 early but rallied to beat Wesley 13-12 in a slugfest . Two local players- Tyler Blevins-Pulaski Co High School- and Joey Sutphin- Radford High School- were right in the middle of the comeback for the Tigers. Not only did the Tigers come from behind early but were down 12-11 going into the bottom of the ninth.

Blevins finished the game with three hits and two runs batted in and scored one. Sutphin had two hits, two runs knocked and scored one. His sacrifice fly in the ninth that won the game for the Tigers , who saw their record improve to 4-3.

The Tigers finished on the day with 13 runs ,18 hits. Dylan Tucker of J R Tucker got the pitching win in relief. Hampden-Sydney returns to action Tuesday February 23 as they travel to Danville to play Averitt. Game time is 2:30.

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