2 weeks Ago
Andre Lipcius, who grew up in Williamsburg, launched a grand slam Friday night to guide the Charlotte Knights to a 7-6 home victory over the Norfolk Tides before 8,109 at Truist Park.Charlotte (5-2) evened the six-game series at two victories apiece against the Tides (3-4). The teams will clash again at 6:05 p.
m. Saturday and then Sunday afternoon.The Tides took a 2-0 lead on former VCU star Vimael Machin’s two-run double in the first inning and capitalized on a third-inning error to move ahead 3-0 as Dylan Carlson scored.
Charlotte parlayed three hits and two walks into a three-run third inning to pull even at 3.In the Charlotte fifth, after two walks and a single, Lipcius, 26, a former standout for Lafayette High and the Tennessee Volunteers who’s in his first season in the Chicago White Sox organization, blasted a pitch over the right-field wall to give the Knights, the top affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, a 7-3 margin. Tides reliever Cody Poteet (0-1) gave up those four runs and took the loss.
The Tides responded in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Coby Mayo. They scored two more in the eighth, thanks to an RBI double by Carlson and a Daz Cameron RBI single. Carlson was 2 for 2 with a pair of doubles, three walks and three runs.
Edgar Quero was 3 for 5 with a run for Charlotte. Former Virginia Cavaliers standout Kyle Teel, the reigning International League Player of the Week, had a hit and a run for the Knights. Tim Elko, the son of Texas A&M football coach Mike Elko, added two hits, an RBI and a run.
Charlotte’s Steven Wilson earned a save for Jared Shuster (3-0) by pitching the ninth, leveling the series before Saturday night’s clash of right-handers Brandon Young for the Tides and Jairo Iriarte for the Knights..
