SPORTS BRIEFS: Albany State baseball falls on Senior Day

Albany State baseball falls in regular-season finale

Senior Ryan Latner recorded three hits in his final home game but the Albany State Rams lost to Armstrong Atlantic 13-0 on Senior Day. With the loss, ASU ends the regular season with a 16-31 overall record.

Armstrong scored four early runs in the top of the first inning and never looked back.

Reise McDaniel added two hits for the Rams. Martin Logan was the losing pitcher. The team collected seven hits and committed five errors.

Seniors Latner, Allen Hardy, Uwen Udofia, Hector Carrasquillo, and Cullen Coulter played their final home games for ASU.

Albany State returns to action today when it travels to Columbia, South Carolina to participate in the 2015 SIAC Baseball Championship Tournament. As the No. 3 seed from the SIAC East Division, the Rams will face Miles College, the West Division’s No. 2 seed. The first round game will begin at 3 p.m.

Gowdy powers Worth County baseball past Monroe

An strong effort from Denzell Gowdy hoisted the Worth County Rams to a 9-1 win over Monroe late Tuesday in Sylvester.

Gowdy rocked Monroe with two home runs. Gowdy went 2 for 3 in the game with four RBIs and two runs scored. Gowdy homered in the first and second innings.

Eight runs in the first three innings helped the Rams blow out Monroe. A two-run home run by Gowdy, an RBI single by Shelby Cox and a two-run single by Keith Apperson during the first inning and a two-run home run by Gowdy in the second inning supplied the early offense.

Worth County scored five runs in the first inning to build an early lead.

Austin Jackson got the win for the Rams. He pitched four shutout innings. Austin Jackson struck out three, walked one and gave up four hits.

The Rams matched their one-run third inning with one more in the fourth. In the third, Worth County scored on a sacrifice fly by Cody Reddell, plating Aaron Franks.

Winston said crab legs given to him, not stolen

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, projected to be the first overall selection in the 2015 NFL Draft, has possibly cleared up what happened when he received a shoplifting citation last year for taking crab legs from a Tallahassee, Fla., grocery store.

During an appearance on ESPN’s “Draft Academy,” Winston said he never stole the crab legs from a Publix grocery store on April 29, 2014, and that they instead were given to him by an employee.

Winston was issued a civil citation for shoplifting after he walked out of the supermarket without paying for $32.72 worth of crab legs and crawfish.

“How I’m supposed to handle, like, if I just got them for free? I just say, ‘I just messed up?’” Winston asked Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh during the ESPN show, which aired Tuesday night but was taped before the NFL Scouting Combine in February.

Winston said it wasn’t the first time he had gotten free food from an individual working at that store.

“Well, a week before, it was my buddy’s birthday and we had got a cake. And we met a dude that worked inside Publix and he said, ‘Hey, anytime you come in here, I got you.’ So that day we just walked out and he hooked us up with that,” Winston told Harbaugh when asked to elaborate on the incident.

“And when I came in to get crab legs, I did the same thing and he just gave them to me and I walked out. And someone from inside the store had told the security that I didn’t pay for them. And that’s how the whole thing started.”

When Winston was arrested, he told deputies he had forgotten to pay. Winston eventually paid the $32.72 and did 20 hours of community service.