SALEM — The Hampden-Sydney baseball team split its first ODAC double header, taking a 4-0 win and an 11-10 loss at Roanoke on Saturday. The Tigers won the first game 4-0 behind a complete game shutout from Reggie Johnson (Dunnsville/Essex) and fell in an 11-10 game which had 31 combined hits. Hampden-Sydney now stands at 4-11-1 overall and 1-2 in ODAC play.

After two scoreless innings in game one, Hampden-Sydney's offense came alive, as the Tigers notched one run in the third courtesy of a Jeff Gray (Newport News/Menchville) RBI and added three more in the fifth with Gray batting in another to go with an RBI from Lee Carneal (Charlottesville/Albemarle) and John Lloyd (Glen Allen/Deep Run).

Ryan Haynie (Melfa/Nandua), Christian Hamlett (Midlothian/Cosby), Gray, and Carneal all scored while putting the Tigers up 4-0.

On the other side, Johnson made life difficult on the Maroon bats, going the distance, allowing four hits and two walks while striking out eight. Gray and Lloyd each had a team-high two hits while the Tigers had seven knocks as a team. In game two, it was a tightly contested game with each team scoring big innings to keep it close. After the first two innings, Roanoke had five runs, but the Tigers used a Haynie RBI and two RBI on a Spencer Wiles (Belmont, NC/South Point) triple to make it a 5-3 game. Both teams scored four more in the third, with Lloyd and Dustin Wiles (Belmont, NC/South Point) each knocking in two runs.

Roanoke pushed its lead to 10-7 with a run in the sixth, but Dustin Wiles drove in Devin Daugherty (Norcross, GA/Greater Atlanta Christian School) to come within two. The Tigers then fully closed the gap in the eighth with Gray and Hamlett scoring while Carneal reached on an error. Roanoke, however, combatted Hampden-Sydney's game-tying runs with the go ahead run in the eighth to claim the victory.

Matt Hinson (Kinston, NC/Arendell Parrott Academy) started the game on the mound, allowing seven runs in two innings. Zach Perkins (Appomattox/Appomattox) and Zach Whitaker (Roanoke/Patrick Henry) went 2.0 and 3.0 innings, respectively, and Billy Nixon (Sedley/Southampton) was the pitcher of decision, allowing one run on two hits in the final inning.

The Tigers tallied 15 hits, including three from Dustin Wiles, and two from Spencer Wiles, Gray, Carneal, and Lloyd.