The #30 Emporia State baseball team opened their 2017 season last weekend at Colorado State-Pueblo for the second year in a row, taking the three-game series 2-1 [8-0, 27-14, 3-4].

In game one, junior starting pitcher Seth Holman threw six scoreless innings and senior reliever Tyler Buss finished with three scoreless innings of his own to shutout CSU-Pueblo 8-0.

The Hornets put up two runs in the first after Taylor Sanagorski, senior catcher, drove in Mason Brown, junior catcher. Brown then led off the third inning with a solo homerun to make it 3-0. Sanagorski followed with a triple and made it home on senior infielder Daniel LaMunyon’s, sac fly for a 4-0 advantage. Emporia State scored their last runs in the sixth inning when Lamunyon hit a two-RBI single that scored Wade Hanna, senior outfielder, and Brown.

The Hornets started their second game of the series strong by scoring ten runs off of just four hits in the second inning. Emporia State plated another eight runs in the fourth inning, six more in the seventh, and finished with two more in the eighth to cap a 27-14 victory. Junior outfielder B.J. Dean finished with seven RBIs.

After scoring 35 runs in their first two games, the Hornets only scored three runs in the series finale, falling 4-3 on Sunday afternoon. Emporia State left 11 runners on base including the tying and go ahead run in the ninth inning.

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