William McCrary followed Bradley Thomas' eighth-inning triple with one of his own and pushed in the winning run as Tuskegee stopped Alabama State, 8-6, in a nonconference baseball game at Washington Field Thursday.
Jonathan Allen added an insurance RBI on a single two batters later to pad the lead for Jeremy Williams (2-0), who got the victory despite blowing the save for starter Cameron Duncan.
The Tigers (10-14) had rallied from a 5-3 deficit to take the lead, 6-5, with three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Gene Moody drove in two runs with his 11th double of the year. Mitchell Smith (0-2) relieved ASU starter Ron Frost and promptly gave up the go-ahead run on a balk.
The Hornets (11-18) tied the score at 6-6 in the top of the eighth with an RBI groundout by Draveon Moreland. That set the stage for Tuskegee's final surge.
Both starters ran into trouble early. Duncan, already sporting an ERA of 10.07 allowed two runs in the top of the second inning, a run in the fourth and two in the fifth.
Frost, the starter for Alabama State, coughed up a solo homerun to Bryant Chambliss in the second inning, a two-run triple to Cash Oliver in the fourth and Moody's two-run double in the seventh before being lifted.
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