KENNESAW, Ga. - A dominant day from
Smith Pinson and the second-straight game with 11 runs helped Kennesaw State (20-14, 10-5 Atlantic Sun Conference) to an 11-1 series-sweeping win over Central Arkansas (13-21, 4-11 ASUN) Sunday afternoon inside Stillwell Stadium.
Pinson (2-5) pitched a complete-game gem allowing just three hits and zero earned runs in eight innings of work. He struck out nine en route to his second win this year.
The switch-hitting second baseman
Zac Corbin mashed two homers came from each side of the plate as he accrued four RBI in the game, his first multi-homer game of 2024.
Corbin joins
Isaac Bouton as the only two Owls with a multi-homer outing this season and KSU is 3-0 in those games in 2024 and 11-1 all-time under head coach
Ryan Coe.
Bouton added two more hits and two runs scored in the contest, his 13th game with more than one hit this season.
Aaron Posey led the squad with three hits, his second such game in 2024.
Kennesaw State has now scored in 170 consecutive home games, the longest streak in the conference and the only ASUN team in triple digits. The Owls have never been shutout at home in the Coe era. The Owls defeated the Bears 11-2 in game two and 3-2 in game one. KSU has won each of its three ASUN home series this season.
UCA opened the game with a 1-0 lead.
Nick Hassan increased his hit streak to three games with a double in the bottom of the inning.
Corbin led off the second with a homer on the first pitch, evening the game at one. Later in the inning, a sacrifice fly to left by
Brayden Eidson plated Posey to give the Owls a 2-1 advantage. Corbin then had a sac fly of his own, scoring Bouton in the bottom of the third to add to the lead, 3-1.
With bases loaded in the fourth, Hassan posted an infield single that scored
Chris Cole. In the next at-bat, Hassan and Eidson were brought home by a Bouton double to increase the lead to 6-1. Next up was
Spencer Hanson who singled up the middle to make it 7-1.
Hanson on first, Corbin stepped up to the plate again and launched a ball just over the left field fence to cap off a six-run fourth, 9-1.
A single from Eidson in the fifth scored
Jackson Chirello and put Kennesaw State in double digits, 10-1.
Posey's third hit scored Bouton to plate run-rule-clinching RBI in the bottom of the eighth, 11-1.
KSU has won at least 10 conference games in every year of its existence excluding the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign.
UP NEXT
The Black and Gold head on the road to Panthersville, Ga. for a 4:00 p.m. first pitch Tuesday, April 16 at Georgia State.
KSU returns to The Shake the next day, Wednesday, April 17 at 6:00 p.m. against in-state foe Georgia Southern on ESPN+. Fans can purchase tickets
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