Box Score AIKEN, SC--Sophomore shortstop Tony Hanks blasted a grand slam over the left field wall in a 10-run second inning for USC Aiken as the Pacers (3-2) even their series with Carson-Newman (3-3) at one game each with Saturday's 14-13 win.  Hanks also homered to lead off the eighth inning and that would prove to be the game winner.

Carson-Newman drew first blood when Aaron Shaffer singled home Wes Miller in the first inning.  Jim Higgins smacked an RBI single in the second as the Eagles pushed out to the 2-0 lead.  But the Pacers bats erupted in the second cranking seven hits and belting what appeared to be two grand slams in the inning.  Demetrick Drumming crushed a Derek Hommel (1-1) 1-2 offering over the center field wall.  A late call by the umpire, however, said Drumming passed Bradley Key who was on first at the time.  As a result, Drumming was credited with just a single and called out.

Drumming finished 4-for-5 with four RBI and one run scored.  Hanks was 2-for-3 with five RBI and two runs scored while Key posted his second consecutive three-hit game.  Also getting in on the Pacers 16-hit outing was Tavis Cummings and Kyle Langley, each with two.

Higgins, Shaffer, and Heath Mason were each 4-for-5 and combined to drive in seven of Carson-Newman's 13 runs.

Adam Green (1-0) worked two-thirds of an inning giving up four earned runs on four hits and one strikeout in notching the win.  Key(2) got the Pacers out of a jam in the eighth and held the Eagles at bay in the ninth to earn his second save of the season.

One note of interest, five CNC pitchers combined to hit Pacer hitters five times, a new school record.  Micheal Snelgrove was the receipted of three of those HBP, which ties a conference record set by Deron Spink (ASU) on April 16, 1994.

USCA and Carson-Newman will square off in the rubber match on Sunday, February 10 at 2:00 PM.

???????Carson-Newman     113        104   111   -   13   17   0 
USC Aiken                 0(10)1   011   01x   -   14   16   3