The Emory University baseball team earned a mid-week win Tuesday afternoon as they defeated LaGrange College, 10-3, at Chappell Park in Atlanta.
The Eagles completed the season sweep of the Panthers behind sophomore JT Rattigan's finest start of the season so far. Rattigan carried a shutout into the sixth inning to earn his first win of the year and ended his line with one unearned run on seven hits and no walks while striking out three.
Emory supplied the second year right-handed with plenty of run support as the Eagles, which entered the game averaging 9.3 runs per contest, reached double digits in the run column for the 10th time.
Seniors Jack Halloran and Matthew Sicoli combined for six of the 10 runs driven in and accounted for the first two Eagle runs of the afternoon. A Sicoli fielder's choice which also led to a throwing error brought home the first run before Halloran opened a three-run frame in the third with an RBI single. Both senior Blake Dincman and junior Adrien Armstrong followed with back-to-back sacrifice flies to make the score 4-0 at the end of three full innings.
A two-run double in the fourth off the bat of Halloran made it 6-0 prior to sophomore Jake Lawson tacking on a run in the fifth as he plated Armstrong with a single through the right side.
The Panthers came within striking distance with a solo run in the sixth and two in the eighth to make it 7-3 but Halloran and Sicoli brought in three runs in the home half of the eighth to put away the visitors.
The Eagles, winners of two straight and standing at 14-6 on the season, will be off this upcoming weekend before starting UAA competition the weekend of March 28-30 with a series against NYU in Atlanta.
