MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (April 18, 2015) â€" Fourteen members of the Milligan College baseball team were honored for their careers during a senior day celebration after a series-evening 8-4 win over St. Andrews University, but the Buffaloes lost the nightcap and deciding series finale 3-2 in eight innings at Anglin Field.
 
Colby Edds, Ernesto Fernandez, Justin Freeman, Chavez Golden, Nick Loughry, Brandon Malone, Hunter McDaniel, Josh Peterson, Edwin Soto, Tanner Strange, Logan Suggs, Sam Tarlton, Jake Watts and Tyler Weir were the honorees as Milligan moved its record to 21-15 (13-11 AAC).
 
Despite a mistake early on in the opener, junior Codie Campbell (5-1) pitched the Buffaloes to the win in game one with a complete game, striking out three and walking two with his only earned runs coming on a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the first. Campbell's third strikeout caught SAU left fielder Kyle Schade looking to end the game.
 
Milligan trailed 2-0 and 4-1 but tied the game with three runs in the bottom of the third. Peterson started the scoring outburst with a double to deep left-center field that scored Weir and sent Logan Suggs, pinch running for Malone, to third. Suggs would score in the next at-bat on a wild pitch, and Loughry tied the game with a single through the right side.
 
Tarlton put the Buffs on top for good with a solo home run on the first pitch of the bottom of the fourth, sending an opposite field blast off the top and over the wall in left field.
 
Milligan padded the lead with three more runs in the same inning. Soto drove in the first of those three with a single through the right side, and Weir and Soto were able to cross the plate on wild pitches from SAU reliever Demetrus Ingram. Once Milligan had given Campbell the lead, the right-hander faced only two over the minimum over the last three innings, and his punchout of Schade highlighted a perfect final inning.
 
Milligan pounded out 13 hits in the opener, led by Tarlton who was 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run. Nate Clifton, Weir and Soto had two hits apiece.
 
Game two featured a similar start to the opener as St. Andrews jumped out on top with an (unearned) run off Peterson in the top of the first only to see Milligan come back and tie it in the second and take the lead in the third. Clifton drove in the tying run with a one-out single to right field. Andrew Copas drove in the go-ahead run with a single up the middle, scoring L. Suggs, again pinch running for Malone, with two out.
 
With Milligan on top 2-1, the two clubs traded scoreless frames across the fourth and fifth. St. Andrews tied it in the sixth and took the lead in the eighth, both via two-out singles. The Buffaloes had a chance to win it in the bottom of the seventh when Soto poked a single to the opposite field, over the head of third base and into shallow left field. Soto moved to second on a Malone groundout but would be left stranded there.
 
Again in the eighth, Milligan rallied to put the tying run in scoring position when Tarlton won a 10-pitch at-bat, facing the game's final strike seven times, with a walk to move Fernandez to second. The two seniors were left on base as Clifton's at-bat ended with a running catch by Schade to end the game.
 
Like Campbell, Peterson (5-3) turned in a complete game, allowing seven hits, one walk and three runs (two earned) while striking out a career high 13.
 
Milligan is through with the home schedule this season but has seven games left in the regular season. The Buffaloes will face Lindsey Wilson College and University of the Cumberlands midweek before heading to nearby Montreat College for a weekend three-game series.