Pepperdine Falls to Top-Ranked Vanderbilt in Doubleheader

Sunday, February 24

Nashville, Tenn.

7:00 a.m. PT

Pepperdine University

3-2

Vanderbilt

4-1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Pepperdine	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	3	9	1
Vanderbilt	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	6	13	1

Easton Lucas

Photo by: Stephen Wandzura

Pepperdine Falls to Top-Ranked Vanderbilt in Doubleheader

2/24/2019 1:43:00 PM | Baseball

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By: by Athletic Communications

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After a cancellation and two postponed games due to rain, the Pepperdine baseball team was finally able to get a doubleheader in against No. 1 Vanderbilt on Sunday. The Commodores proved to be too tough, as they defeated the Waves 6-3 in the morning and 6-2 in the afternoon.

The Waves (3-3) got runs early on in the second game, but answers from the Commodores (5-1) proved to be too much.

BIG WAVES

Freshman catcher Charlie Welch (Clearwater Fla./Jefferson HS) continues his hot start in collegiate baseball, going 4-for-7 on the day, with two RBI.
RS-Sophomore infielder Brandt Belk (Houston, Texas/Westside HS) went 2-for-6 in the two games.

Pepperdine 3, Vanderbilt 6
Vanderbilt got off to a hot start, getting three runs in the first inning on back-to-back RBI singles, taking a 3-0 lead after one. They scored another run in the second to lead the Waves by four runs.

Pendergast had a clean inning in the third before the Commodores got another run off of him in the fourth.

In the sixth inning, Brandt Belk doubled to left and Matthew Kanfer followed with a double of his own, scoring Belk for the Waves' first run of the game. A strikeout and a line drive ended the inning, and Vanderbilt led 5-1 after five and a half innings. The Commodores answered back in the bottom half to retake a 5-run lead after six full innings.

Quincy McAfee came up in the top of the eighth inning and smacked a ball deep into left center. It sailed over the wall for a solo home run, cutting the Commodores' lead to four runs. In the ninth, after Reese Alexiades tripled into deep center field, and was plated by a Charlie Welch single. The single run in the ninth was all the Waves could muster, as they fell 6-3 in the day's opening game.

Pepperdine x, Vanderbilt x
Vanderbilt scored in the first inning in the second game as well, on an RBI single, taking a quick 1-0 lead after one full inning of play. They scored again in the third on a sacrifice fly to take a 2-0 lead.

In the top half of the fourth, the Waves had runners on second and third thanks to Belk reaching on an error, a Welch walk and a Duncan McKinnon sac bunt. Reese Alexiades smacked a ball up the middle, tying the game with a 2-RBI single.

Vanderbilt scored three runs in the fifth inning, first on a solo home run from Philip Clarke, and then on a 2-RBI triple, improving their lead to 6-2, a lead that the Waves never came back from.

UP NEXT
The Waves are back in action on Tuesday, as they travel to Tempe, Ariz. to take on Arizona State. First pitch is set for 5 p.m. PT.