The USC Salkehatchie Indians baseball team traveled to Sumter, South Carolina this weekend to face USC Sumter. The Indians went into Saturday's game with an 8-8 record as they were facing their first Region X test of the season. On Saturday, the Indians bats would be the key in their game 1 13-10 victory over the Fire Ants. In game 2, the Indians would again fight back in the 7th inning to tie the game at 8 apiece and force extra innings. The Fire Ants would prevail in 9 innings, 11-10.On Sunday, the Indians went back and forth with the Fire Ants in game 3 but it was the Fire Ants, fire power that propel them to 4-2 victory.
In the fourth and final game of the series, the Fire Ants jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom half of the first and would hold the lead until the to of the3rd when the Indians put 5-runs on the scoreboard. USC Sumter would answer in the bottom of the 5th, scoring 5-more runs of their own. The Indians last at bat in the top of the 7th, they would fight, scratch and rally for 3-runs to regain the lead 8-6. The Fire Ants in the bottom of the 7th would go three up and three down to give the Indians an 8-6 win.
In their first Region X weekend series of the season, the Indians split with the Fire Ants 2-games apiece. The Indians are now 10-10 overall and 2-2 in Region X play.
They will be back in action at home on Tuesday afternoon against Limestone JV at 2:00 in a scheduled double-header.
