“The seventh, eighth inning it’s basically my game to lose,” Walker Powell said after throwing the Golden Eagles’ first complete game shutout of the season in the 11-0 win over Old Dominion on Friday night.
Powell gave up only three hits and a hit batter but struck out six batters in just 97 pitches.
“[Pitching coach Christian Ostrander] said that he knew that I could go all nine [and he] was seeing I wasn’t getting too fatigued,” Powell said.
Of Powell’s 97 pitches 71 of them were strikes which means 73 percent of his pitches were in the strike zone.