Wingate, N.C.----The visiting Newberry College Wolves swept a doubleheader at Wingate University Saturday afternoon in South Atlantic Conference baseball action at Ron Christopher Stadium and Plyler Athletic Field. The Wolves won the first game 5-3 in 10 innings, while prevailing 7-2 in game two to improve to 24-14 overall and 10-5 in the SAC. The Bulldogs fall to 15-21 overall and 6-9 in league play.
Game One: Newberry 5, Wingate 3 (10 innings)
Newberry scored two unearned runs in the top of the 10th inning to take the victory. With one out,
Daymon Totherow reached on a fielding error and stole second base.
Trejon Smith singled through the right side to score Totherow. Smith moved to second on an error in the outfield.
Jeff Sneed singled to left field, advancing Smith to third and chasing Wingate redshirt sophomore reliever
Jimmy Doolittle (Charlotte, N.C.). Newberry's
Tommy Passerello greeted WU redshirt sophomore pitcher
Danny Dunning (Mint Hill, N.C.) with a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Smith with an insurance run.
The visitors tied the game 3-3 with a single run in the top of the seventh inning. Sneed started the frame with an infield single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Passerello.
Zach White singled to put runners on the corners. Sneed scored on an RBI pinch-hit single by
Ben Herring.
Wingate scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to erase an early 2-0 deficit. In the fifth frame, sophomore catcher
Andrew Llewellyn (Moseley, Va.) singled with one out and moved to second on a balk by Newberry freshman hurler
Evan Estridge. Llewellyn scored on an RBI single by senior third baseman
Colby Barnette (Monroe, N.C.).
In the fourth inning, the Bulldogs tied the score at 2-2 thanks to a sacrifice fly by sophomore shortstop
Reece Daniel (Asheboro, N.C.). The fly-out to right field scored junior designated hitter
Bradley Brown (Rockingham, N.C.), who started the inning with a single.
Daniel scored Wingate's first run in the third inning. He singled and moved to second on pick-off throwing error by Estridge. Daniel moved to third on an infield single by sophomore infielder
Zach Little (Troutman, N.C.). He scored on an RBI single by Llewellyn.
Newberry touched Wingate junior starting pitcher
Hunter Morgan (Summerfield, N.C.) for two runs in the top of the first inning. The big hit was a two-RBI double by Totherow. One of three Newberry doubles in game one, Totherow's hit was one of three hits for the visitors in the first frame.
Brown had three hits in five tries for the Bulldogs in the opener. Llewellyn and Daniel had two hits each as Wingate posted 12 hits in the game. Newberry had 12 game one hits as well, with four Wolves claiming two hits each. Totherow was the only Newberry player with multiple RBI, thanks to his first inning double.
Newberry sophomore reliever
Tyler Fuhr picked up his first win of the season by pitching a scoreless ninth inning. He gave up one hit. Classmate Charlie
Fessler earned his team-best fifth save by blanking the Bulldogs in the 10th inning. He allowed one hit and posted two strikeouts. Doolittle took the loss, giving up two unearned runs on two hits in 1/3 of an inning.
Both starters had success. Morgan went 7 1/3 innings for the hosts. He allowed three earned runs on 10 hits, striking out two and walking none. Estridge pitched eight complete innings. He gave up three runs (two earned) on 10 hits. Estridge struck out one and walked none. Neither team surrendered a walk in game one.
Game Two: Newberry 7, Wingate 2
Sneed drove in two runs and scored twice to lead the Newberry offense in game two, while
Trejon Smith added two hits, an RBI and a run scored. Herring and White each added an RBI for the Wolves.
Brown and Daniel each drove in a run for the Bulldogs in game two, while Barnette went three-for-four. Junior
Ty Andrus (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and sophomore
Austin Turgeon (Athens, Ga.) each collected a hit and a run scored.
Wingate jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first, with Andrus starting the frame with a single, moving to second on a Barnette hit, then scoring on a Brown RBI groundout after a sacrifice bunt moved him to third.
The Wolves scored twice in the second, with a Sneed RBI single tying the game. He would then steal home on a double steal to make it 2-1. Wingate tied it in the bottom of the frame when Turgeon started the inning by getting hit by a pitch, then scored on Daniel's RBI groundout.
The Wolves scored four times in the third to take a 6-2 lead. The first two runs scored on a Wingate throwing error, putting Newberry on top 4-2. A Herring RBI groundout and White RBI single put the Wolves on top by four. Smith's RBI single in the fourth made the final margin 7-2.
Tristan Smaltz got the win in relief, tossing five shutout innings with five strikeouts, allowing just four hits to move to 2-1 on the year. Junior right-hander
Cameron Price (Indian Trail, N.C.) took the loss, falling to 2-1. He allowed seven runs (two earned) on four hits in 3 1/3 innings, striking out two and walking four.
The Bulldogs are back in action Wednesday, traveling to Limestone for a 6 p.m. start.
