Miners bats come alive late to fly past the Glacier Pilots

The Miners beat the Anchorage Glacier Pilots on Thursday night, 6-1, behind phenomenal pitching and a Carter Geffre home run.

The game got started in the second inning after Joe McGee hit a two-RBI double to the left-center field wall to put the Miners up 2-0. The Pilots would respond with one of their own in the top of the third on a RBI groundout, but the scoring would stop there.

No one scored again until the eighth inning when the Miners exploded for four runs, including a two-run blast by Iowa catcher Carter Geffre.

“It felt amazing to put one out finally. I’ve been grounding out and fouling off a lot of pitches so far, and when I knew he was gonna throw me a fastball on a 3-1 count, I wanted it and didn’t miss,” the redshirt freshman said in a post-game interview.

However, it was the Miners' pitching that kept the Miners ' one-run lead all the way until the four-run eighth. Sam Houston Right-handed pitcher Connor Mondey got the start and didn’t disappoint, allowing just one earned run in four innings of work. Bowling Green right-handed pitcher Kade Arn went the rest of the way, pitching five scoreless innings.

The Miners move to 3-0 in “nonconference play,” as these wins won’t count in the conference standings, and are technically exhibition games. Whatever way you look at it, the Miners have dominated through their first three games.