Catawba Advances to NCAA Super Regional

Feeling Super! #9 Baseball is Super Regional bound with 6-4 win over #25 Young Harris

Salisbury, N.C. —- The 9th-ranked and top-seeded Catawba College baseball team punched their ticket to the Southeast Super Regional for the first time since 2019 at Newman Park on Saturday afternoon. The Catawba Indians held 25th-ranked and fifth-seed Young Harris scoreless over the final six innings to take the 6-4 victory.

TEAM STATISTICS

- Catawba out-hit Young Harris 10-6

- Both teams recorded three extra-base hits; YHC had both homers

- Both teams left seven runners on base

- The Mountain Lions committed the lone error in the game

- Both teams recorded two stolen bases

- Catawba's pitchers allowed four earned runs on six hits and one walk, striking out seven; Young Harris' staff allowed five earned runs on 10 hits and six walks, striking out two 

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

- Levi Perrell was 3-for-4 with two doubles, a walk, two RBI and two runs scored

- Dylan Driver singled, drove in a run and scored

- Sam Hunter recorded a pair of hits and drove in a run

- Ty Hubbard singled, walked twice and scored twice

- Casey Gouge earned the win out of the bullpen, throwing five shutout innings, allowing just two hits and no walks, striking out four

- Brandon Rodgers and Hayden Simmerson combined for 1.2 innings to close the door; Simmerson picked up his eighth save of the year and second of the weekend