Vanderbilt Baseball Weekly Report – March 20, 2023
Overall Record: 16-5, 3-0 SEC
Streak: Won 4
Last Week’s Results (4-0)
Tuesday, March 14 vs. Belmont – W, 15-6
Thursday, March 16 vs. #3 Ole Miss – W, 12-2 (8 inn.)
Friday, March 17 vs. #3 Ole Miss – W, 8-0
Saturday, March 18 vs. #3 Ole Miss – W, 7-2
This Week (All times central)
Tuesday, March 21 vs. Lipscomb – 6 p.m. (@ First Horizon Park)
Friday, March 24 at Mississippi State – 6 p.m.
Saturday, March 25 at Mississippi State – 2 p.m.
Sunday, March 26 at Mississippi State – 1 p.m.
Commodore Notes
Vanderbilt went 4-0 with a 15-6 midweek win over Belmont at First Horizon Park and a three-game sweep over defending national champion Ole Miss at Hawkins Field.
The Dores scored a season-high 15 runs Tuesday. Freshman RJ Austin went 4-for-5 with a pair of RBI and Jack Bulger went 3-for-6 with a home run and four RBI.
Vandy run-ruled Ole Miss 12-2 in Game 1 of the series on Thursday. Vandy clubbed a season-high four home runs and tallied 17 hits, also a season-high. The 12 runs were more than enough for the Vandy pitching staff as Carter Holton (W, 2-0) earned the win with six strong innings. Holton struck out five while only allowing a pair of runs. Bryce Cunningham came on in relief and threw two scoreless frames. Junior Hunter Owen threw a complete-game shutout for an 8-0 win in Game 2 Friday night. The lefty retired the final 23 batters he faced after giving up a single in the bottom of the second. He totaled 11 strikeouts with just two hits allowed and needed only 96 pitches to finish the complete game. In Saturday’s finale, Vanderbilt rallied from a 2-0 deficit, scoring seven unanswered runs to sweep the Rebels for the first time since 2013. Bulger hit the go-ahead two-run homer in the fourth inning.
Hunter Owen was named SEC Co-Pitcher of the week after his complete-game shutout vs. Ole Miss on Friday.