Cats take 1-0 lead over Samford

The Catamounts were cruising along with an 8-3 lead in Friday night's game against the defending SoCon champs Samford Bulldogs until they hit the top of the 9th inning.

Only three outs separated the Cats from a petty convincing win over the Bulldogs.

But in the top of the ninth, the bottom fell out for Western Carolina. Samford scored five runs off the three home runs given up by Catamount pitching in the inning. Those five runs erased the comfortable five-run lead held by the Cats.

Samford's C.K. Irby and Christiaan Durdaller each hit a two-run homer, and Caleb Bryson hit a solo home run in the inning.

The Catamounts now with their back to the wall, came to bat in the bottom of the 9th.  Up to the challenge the Cats loaded the bases and scored the winning run off an Aaron Attaway single to center field.

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