Savannah 9 greenville 1

The savannah sand gnats and the greenville drive played the first game of their four game series in front of 723 fans wednesday evening at Grayson stadium. It was a pitching duel the first six innings and savannah led 2-1 at the end of 6. Hot sand gnats bats banged out 13 hits for the game and won 9-1.                                                                                                                                                                      The sand gnats got off to a fast start scoring in the first inning when Gilbert Gomez hit a triple and scored on a ground out. In the 4th inning savannah scored a run when Dustin lawley doubled and scored on A broken bat single by Greg pron. a home run by Brandon brown in the 7th scored 2 runs.       Savannah exploded for 5 runs in the 8th on 2 bb, 5 hits and a wild pitch.                                               Greg pron went 3-for-4 with a run scored and 3 RBI night. Gomez was 3- for-5 with 1 RBI and a run scored.                                                                                                                                                       Starting sand gnat pitcher, Alex panteloids threw strikes and got ahead of most of the hitters. He pitched 6 innings, allowed 1 earned run, on 7 hits, 0 bb, and struck out 7 . With the win he improved his record to 4-5. Carlos Vasquez was sharpe allowing 1 hit, striking out 2 . Closer Jared west pitched the 9th inning and struck out 1.                                                                                                         Game two of the series is Thursday at 7:05pm at Grayson.