How Vandy beat Lipscomb: Inning-by-inning

Columnist Dave Ammenheuser's inning-by-inning highlights from Vanderbilt's 9-1 win over Lipscomb on Friday in the first-round game of the NCAA baseball regionals.

Vanderbilt (43-19) advances to play Indiana on Saturday at 7 p.m. Lipscomb (39-19) will face Radford in an elimination game at 3 p.m.

NINTH INNING

Colin Snider retired Lipscomb in order in the ninth inning as Vanderbilt completed its 9-1 win. Vanderbilt advances to Saturday's game against Indiana at 7 p.m.

Snider faced seven batters, allowing one hit. He did not walk or strike out a batter.

EIGHTH INNING

Neither team mounted a scoring threat in the eighth inning. As only seven batters combined came to the plate. Lipscomb's Jonathan Allison had the only hit in the inning, a double.

Collin Snider entered the game on the mound for Vanderbilt; John Pryor pitched a scoreless inning for Lipscomb.

SEVENTH INNING

Commodores add another, lead 9-1

Lipscomb: Fulmer struck out the side, finishing the game with 11 strike outs. He allowed four hits and just one walk. He faced 28 batters, throwing 104 pitches.

Vanderbilt: Ro Coleman reached base again, this time on a hit by pitch. He later scored on a Rhett Wiseman single. The Commodores lead 9-1.

SIXTH INNING

Five-run inning pushes Vandy lead to 8-1

Lipscomb: Fulmer retired the Bisons in order, including strike outs of Josh Lee and Chucky Vasquez. Fulmer has struck out seven in the last four innings.

Vanderbilt: Ro Coleman opened the inning with a bunt walk, the fourth straight time he reached base. Rhett Wiseman was then hit by a pitch. Dansby Swanson's sacrifice bunt moved them to second and third. Zander Wiel then walked to load the bases. Will Toffey then ripped a two-run single to right field to increase Vanderbilt's lead to 5-1. Bryan Reynolds' double drove in Wiel and moved Toffey to third. After Jeren Kendall was hit by a pitch, Karl Ellison's single off third baseman Hunter Hanks scored Toffey with the inning's fifth run.

FIFTH INNING

Vanderbilt extends lead to 3-1

Lipscomb:

The Bisons threatened but could not score. After Fulmer struck out the first two batters, Adam Lee walked and Grant Massey reached on an error. However, Fulmer got out of the inning when Jonathan Allison flied out to right field.

Vanderbilt: Will Toffey opened the inning with a double off the left-center field wall. He advanced to second base on Bryan Reynolds' ground out to the pitcher. Left-handed reliever Nick Andros then relieved Martinez-McGraw. Jeren Kendall promptly blasted a run-scoring double off the right-field fence to give Vanderbilt a 3-1 lead.

FOURTH INNING

Vanderbilt holds 2-1 lead

Lipscomb: After allowing a lead-off walk to Jason Lee, Fulmer retired the next three Lipscomb batters in order, including a strike out of Chucky Vazquez. (Archive photo of Fulmer)

Vanderbilt: Martinez-McGraw retired the first two Commodores. Ro Coleman then singled to center. It's the third straight time he reached base (walk, double, single). Rhett Wiseman then singled off the second baseman's glove to move Coleman to second base. Dansby Swanson then walked to load the bases. However, Zander Wiel popped out to end the inning, leaving the bases loaded.

THIRD INNING

Lipscomb pulls within 2-1

Lipscomb: Hunter Hanks led off with a single. After Michael Gigliotti struck out, Hanks went to second base on Fulmer's second wild pitch of the game. He scored on Adam Lee's single to center field. Lee was thrown out at second base when he slid past the bag. (Archive photo of Adam Lee)

Vanderbilt: Martinez-McGraw retired the first two Commodores, including his first strikeout before Bryan Reynolds doubled to right field. However, Reynolds struck out to end the inning.

SECOND INNING

Vandy leads 2-0

Lipscomb: The Bisons' Chucky Vazquez had a two-out single. He advanced to second base on a wild pitch (just the seventh of the season by Fulmer), but was stranded when Mike Korte grounded out.

Vanderbilt: Jeren Kendall's two-run homer pushed Vanderbilt to the lead. It was his his sixth home run of the season. He had four during the regular season and one in the SEC tournament. Bryan Reynolds opened the inning with a walk.

FIRST INNING:

Tied 0-0

In the top of the inning, Michael Gigliotti opened the game with a bunt single. However, he was stranded at first base as Vandy starting pitcher Carson Fulmer retired the next three Bison batters in order on a pop out to the catcher, a fly out to right field and a hard grounder to first base.

In the Vanderbilt half of the inning, the Bisons' Ian Martinez-McGraw walked Ro Coleman. Rhett Wiseman lined out to center, After a wild pitch advanced Coleman to second base, Dansby Swanson walked. Zander Wiel then flied out to center. Will Toffey then grounded out to end the inning.

INDIANA 7, RADFORD 1

Kyle Hart threw seven strong innings, leading the third-seeded Indiana past second-seeded Radford.

Hart allowed five hits and just one unearned run over seven innings. He struck out six and did not walk a batter.

Indiana (35-22) scored once in the third and three times in the fourth and seventh innings.

Brian Wilhite's two-run double and Nick Ramos' run-scoring triple accounted for the third-inning outburst, while Craig Dedelow's two-run home run in capped the seventh inning.

Michael Boyle was charged with the loss for Radford (43-15), allowing four runs in six innings.

Indiana turned a triple play in the first inning when Patrick Marshall struck out, Josh Reavis was caught stealing second base and Shane Johnsonbaugh was caught attempting to steal home.

Radford will play in the 3 p.m. loser's bracket game on Saturday; Indiana plays in the 7 p.m. winner's bracket game.