ST. LEO, Fla. -- The Barry Buccaneers lost 13-0 in the opener of a Sunshine State Conference baseball series at Saint Leo on Friday night.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: Saint Leo 13, Barry 0
Records: Saint Leo (15-7, 3-4 SSC), Barry (7-13, 1-6 SSC)
All-Time Series: Barry leads 64-60-1

SUMMARY:

• B1: Bobby Sparling hit a solo homer off Buccaneer starter Arrison Perez (1-2). | Lions 1, Bucs 0
• B3: Sparling knocked in another run with a single, scoring Sam Crail. | Lions 2, Bucs 0
• B4: Yazrael Nunez singled home Mike Wyman. | Lions 3, Bucs 0
• B5: Sparling drove in Crail again with a single and scored on a single by Paul Coumoulos. Wyamn later scored on a front end of a double steal with Coumoulos. | Lions 6, Bucs 0
• B6: Crail drove in Nunez with a double and later scored on a passed ball. | Lions 8, Bucs 0
• B7: Tyler Trovinger tripled, driving in Mikey Scott and Eddie Neiman. Trovinger scored on a error when the relay throw went awry. | Lions 11, Bucs 0
• B8: Wyman added a solo homer and Neiman scored on a single by Giusepe Acuri. | Lions 13, Bucs 0 

NOTEWORTHY:

• Perez took the loss, allowing six runs on 10 hits and a walk in 5.0 innings.
• Jared Beck (2-2) evened his record with seven shutout innings. He scattered four hits and two walks and struck out 12.
• Crail and Sparling each had three hits for the Lions.
• Brandon Abreu led Barry with two hits.

ON THE HORIZON:

The Bucs and Lions conclude the SSC series with a double header on Saturday.