The Catawba Indians baseball team beat Coker last Friday night, 9-1. The Indians would recover and get off to a good start with their pitching and hitting after a home run by Coker in the top of the 1^st would give them an early 1-0 lead. The Indians would come right back in the bottom of the 1^st and score a run after a lead-off triple by junior Blake Houston and a sacrifice fly by senior Paul Kronenfeld would tie the game at 1-1. Catawba would take the lead in the bottom of the 2^nd after a towering home run by T.J. Wharton would give Catawba a 2-1 lead.

After Catawba got the 2-1 lead, in the bottom of the third, Catawba would get a pair of home runs from Paul Kronenfeld and Ethan Satterfield and they gave the Indians a 5-1 advantage.  Catawba would get some strong pitching from junior Craig Brooks as he would only allow one run over his seven innings he pitched while striking out a career high 12 batters. Catawba would continue to keep scoring after a pair of walks to the Indians and a double by Dylan Richardson would make it 7-1, Catawba.

Catawba would continue their strong play at the plate in the bottom of the 7^th after Keaton Hawks was hit by the pitch and got on base. Ethan Satterfield would continue his strong day at the plate when he hit a triple to score Hawks to make it 8-1 Catawba. The Indians would score again in the 7^th when an RBI groundout by Julio Zubillaga would score Satterfield and make the score 9-1 Indians. The Indians pitching would continue by following Craig Brooks’ strong outing as Shaefer Shepard and Matt Farmakis combined for a scoreless 8^th and 9^th innings on the mound.

The Indians would sweep the weekend series with Coker by defeating Coker 12-8 and 7-3 on Saturday. The wins this weekend runs the Indians winning streak to nine straight wins. The Indians next play on Friday night on the road to start a 3 game weekend series against Wingate at 6 P.M. The Indians overall record is now 18-11 and their conference record is now 12-5 after this weekend’s sweep of Coker.