FERRUM, Virginia -- Ferrum College picked up a non-conference baseball win over Vermont State University Lyndon, winning 12-2 tonight at Panther Field in seven and a third innings.

RECORDS
Ferrum (3-4)
Vermont State (0-2)

THE BASICS
Vermont State got on the scoreboard first with a run in the first inning when TJ Santaw scored on a fielding error.

Ferrum would score four runs in the bottom of the third to take the lead, one when Davis Yeaman was struck by a pitch with the bases loaded, two on Clayton Michael's RBI single to left field and one on a Bryce Thacker saf fly to right field.

After the Hornets scored a run in the top of the fourth on Santaw's sac fly to right, the Panthers scored five runs in the bottom of the frame to extend the lead to 9-2. Tyler Mason was struck by a pitch with the bases loaded to get one run in, Yeaman's RBI single to right field pushed two across the plate, and a Thacker sac fly to right and a Benjamin Thomas single to shortstop drove in another run each.

Yeaman had another RBI single in the fifth inning that allowed two more runs in to make it an 11-2 lead after five full frames. Michael blasted an RBI single through the right side to make it a 12-2 lead and the game was halted with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning using the 10-run rule.

KEY STATS
Ferrum: SP Steven Ritchie (W, 1-1) 4 inn, 2 hits,1 K; Yeaman 3-4, 2b, 3 runs, 5 RBI; Michael 4-5, 3 RBI
VSU-Lyndon: SP Jacob Wechselblatt (L, 0-1) 4 inn, 8 hits, 4 K

UP NEXT
Coach Ryan Brittle's team will travel to Kodak, Tennessee, for three games Friday through Sunday, March 1-3, at Smokies Stadium. The Panthers face North Carolina Wesleyan University Friday, University of Mary Washington Saturday and Piedmont College Sunday. All three games are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. starts