Baseball Falls in Series Finale Against Radford
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) baseball team was handed an 11-6 loss on Sunday by the Radford Highlanders in the rubber match of a three-game weekend series at UNCG Baseball Stadium.
UNCG got on the board first in the opening stanza to take a 1-0 lead. After Jeremy Wolf led off with a triple into the corner in right, Trey Truitt chopped a single to second to score Wolf.
Radford scored its first runs in the top of the third inning when Breckin Nace doubled to left to score Hunter Keen before scoring in the next at-bat on a single to left by James Ward. However, the Spartans answered with two runs of their own in the bottom half to reclaim a 3-2 lead when Wight doubled to right-center, scoring Brantley Truitt and Jacob Dilley.
The Highlanders took the lead back during the fourth, piling on three runs with five hits. Jhonkeanu Perez scored Eli Hudgins for the first run with an RBI single to right. Nace then drove in a pair with a base knock through the right side to score Corbin Grantham and Perez. After four and a half innings, Radford carried a four-run lead over UNCG, 7-3.
The Spartans cut the deficit to three, 7-4, in the bottom of the fifth inning when Wolf hit a leadoff double, stole third and then scored on a single up the middle by Dilley.
Tyler Sparrer tacked on two more runs for the Highlanders during the sixth when he blooped a single into right-center with the bases loaded, making it 9-4 Radford.
Parker Wight hit his first collegiate home run out to right-center in the bottom of the seventh to score himself and Dilley, cutting the deficit to 9-6 for the Spartans.
Radford’s Nace tripled to the right-field corner in the eighth to score Zach Paczewski from first, which made it 10-6 Highlanders. Three batters later, the Highlanders pushed their lead to 11-6, where it ultimately finished, after Sparrer laid down a sacrifice bunt to score Nace from third.
NOTES:
Wight led UNCG with two hits and three RBI, including his first career home run.
Wolf and Dilley each scored twice for the Spartans.
Jake Colucci pitched scoreless eighth and ninth innings out of the bullpen with no hits allowed.
UNCG claimed a 6-3 advantage in extra-base hits with four doubles, a triple and one home run.
The Spartans also edged the Highlanders in stolen bases, 4-3.
Both sides had one error in the contest.
PITCHING RECORDS:
Breckin Nace: W, 1-0
Grant Aycock: L, 0-2
RECORDS:
UNCG: 6-9, 0-0 SoCon
RAD: 7-7, 0-0 Big South
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The Spartans will make a short trek over to High Point, North Carolina, on Tuesday to take on the High Point Panthers at Williard Stadium at 4:00 p.m.
Courtesy of Connor Wachtel
Strategic Communications Coordinator
UNC Greensboro