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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Kennesaw State baseball team's (11-6, 4-1) offense exploded for a 15-2 win against the Lipscomb Bisons (6-7, 1-1), achieving its highest margin of victory of the season Saturday afternoon in Nashville, Tenn.

After the Owls left 12 runners on base yesterday, the KSU bats supported a gem of a game pitched by starting pitcher Luke Torbert (2-1) with its second-highest scoring game of the season. 

Tyler Tolve started his immaculate day at the plate in the first inning, after leadoff batter Jesse Sherrill bunted for a single and stole second; Tolve placed a perfect base hit into center field to score the runner from scoring position. The catcher was then able to cross the dish himself, after Nick Hassan's sacrifice bunt to score Tolve from third. 

Hassan kept up the scoring in the next inning with a single to left field to score Alex Carballo and Tolve. Torbert was lights out in the beginning of Saturday's game, allowing only one hit and striking out five to facilitate a 5-0 lead through three innings. Two one-run base hits in the fourth inning was the only blemish that Lipscomb could put on the right-handed hurler's statline. 

The Owls' offense got back to action in the sixth inning after the team's only two scoreless innings in the fourth and fifth. Sherrill thumped a pitch through the middle of the diamond to extend his team's lead to 7-2. 

Terence Norman led off the seventh inning with style, tattooing a home run over the right-center wall. The opposite-field hit was reminiscent of the right fielder's blast in last Sunday's game against Bellarmine. The Kennesaw, Ga. native continues his reign as the ASUN's RBI leader with 20, as he ties teammate Garrett Hodges for the team's lead in home runs with four.

Hodges was able to continue his impressive run of play, capping a five-run eighth inning by keeping a two-run double fair down the left-field line. 

Left-handed reliever Anthony Rodriguez came in for Torbert in the eighth inning, ending the junior's remarkable day on the rubber. The starter threw for seven innings, allowing two earned runs off of five hits and striking out eight batters. Rodriguez's outing was nothing to shrug at either, allowing one hit while shutting out Lipscomb over two innings.

Tolve wrapped up his memorable day in the batter box by taking it a step further in the top of the ninth inning. The backstop walloped one into the Nashville sky, backing up the Bisons' right fielder to the wall before he realized that the ball was leaving the park. The two-run goner established a 15-2 lead for KSU and put the finishing touches on a five-for-six, four RBI day for the sophomore.

After Rodriguez forced a line out to Hodges in left field, the Owls evened up their series against the Bisons with their biggest margin of victory of the season. Kennesaw State will hope to take the series win Sunday afternoon in Dugan Field at 2 p.m. EST. 

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