COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 7, THE CITADEL 0
CHARLESTON, S.C. ? Jake Goldberg threw a complete game shutout to lead the College of Charleston past The Citadel, 7-0, in the second annual “Turn Back the Century” game Wednesday night at Riley Park. Goldberg held the Dogs to only five hits on the evening while striking out four for his fourth victory of the year.
The Bulldogs (17-12) and Cougars (21-8) donned uniforms inspired by the early 1900s and played with wooden bats for the non-conference match-up. The Dogs and Cougars have now split the “Turn Back the Century” game series after the Bulldogs enjoyed a 4-1 win in 2006.
Freshman right-hander Matt Reifsnider (1-1) suffered his first loss for The Citadel as he tossed 3.2 innings, allowing three unearned runs on five hits while striking out one and walking three.
The Citadel allowed 10 or more hits for the third consecutive game as CofC posted 11 on the night. The Dogs have also committed at least one error in the last four contests. The last time The Citadel was shutout was in 2006 as Richmond enjoyed a 6-0 win on Feb. 17 at Riley Park.
Five separate batters registered a hit for The Citadel as junior left fielder Chris Swauger matched his career-high 11 game hitting streak. Freshman second baseman Bryan Altman also ripped his seventh double of the season. Center fielder Stuart Haywood paced the Cougars as he batted 3-for-4, including two RBI.
The Citadel was able to get runners in scoring position in the first three frames, but could not push anyone across. The Cougars plated three unearned runs over the third and fourth innings to take an early 3-0 lead. A fielding error in the outfield allowed Oliver Marmol to stretch a single into a double, who then scored on a one out hit by Haywood. Reifsnider forced Chris Campbell into a 43 double play to finish the third. Alex Garabedian then drove in two in the fourth with a two out, line drive to left field.
CofC then scored two in the seventh on as Bulldog reliever Raymond Copenhaver surrendered a one out walk to Stuart Haywood. Haywood swiped second and moved to third on a single off the bat of Chris Campbell. The Dogs then called on senior Justin Smith who forced Michael Harrington to groundout to first, allowing Haywood to sprint home. Ben Lasater then followed that up with an RBI-single to center to make it 5-0.
Haywood and Campbell each picked up an RBI in the eighth to make the final 7-0. Haywood registered a double to the gap in left center to plate Gabe Marchant before Campbell sent Marmol across the dish on a groundout to second.
APPALACHIAN STATE 8, UNC ASHEVILLE 7
ASHEVILLE, N.C. ? Isaac Harrow’s (Hickory, N.C./Hickory) three-run double highlighted a five-run fifth inning as Appalachian State University baseball extended its longest winning streak in 11 years to eight games with an 8-7 victory over UNC Asheville on Wednesday evening at McCormick Field.
Harrow’s two-out, bases-clearing double to deep left center field capped Appalachian’s five-run fifth, which turned a tied ballgame into a 6-1 ASU lead.
Thanks in large part to Jason Rook’s (Greensboro, N.C./Western
Guilford) fourth home run in six games in the seventh inning, the Mountaineers extended their advantage to as large as 8-1 before UNCA made it interesting with six runs over the course of the final two innings. The Bulldogs put the winning run on second base in the ninth but Garrett Sherrill (Kannapolis, N.C./A.L. Brown) managed to record the final two outs for his fifth save of the season. Three of the Bulldogs’ four runs in the ninth were unearned.
Senior captain Jonathan Reeder (Matthews, N.C./Weddington) turned in his best performance of the season on the mound, allowing just one run on four hits in five innings of work to even his record at 1-1 on the campaign.
Jason Altenhof (Santa Fe, Fla./Santa Fe) and David Rubinstein (Charlotte, N.C./South Mecklenburg) led Appalachian’s 12-hit attack with two hits apiece, while Harrow and Andrew Franco (Niceville,
Fla./Niceville) drove in five of the eight runs with three and two RBI, respectively. Harrow’s fifth-inning double also extended his career-long hitting streak to 11 games.
The Mountaineers’ eight-game winning streak is their longest since they won 11 in a row in 1996 and their 19-11 overall record is also the team’s best since ’96. UNC Asheville fell to 11-21 on the season with the loss.
SOUTH CAROLINA 10, FURMAN 0
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Arik Hempy pitched five innings of shutout ball and Reese Havens went 3-for-5 with a pair of RBI to lead nationally fourth-ranked South Carolina to a 10-0 blanking of Furman in baseball action Wednesday evening at Sarge Frye Field.
Hempy (2-0), a junior lefthander, allowed only two hits and two walks while striking out five en route to earning the win, USC’s 100th in its series with Furman that dates back to 1896. The Gamecocks hold a 100-51-2 lead in the series.
South Carolina (24-6) banged out 12 hits in the contest, including three by Havens and two each by Harley Lail and Travis Jones, who also combined to drive in four runs for USC.
Bobby Hubbard had Furman’s lone extra base hit, a double in the ninth inning. The Paladins had only four hits in the contest. Furman (8-20) has now lost six straight and has scored only 12 runs during its losing skid.
Furman Nick Hollstegge (0-4) took the loss after making his first start since 2004. The Paladin senior righthander went 2 2/3 innings and allowed two hits and an unearned run while walking five.
Thanks to solid work by Spencer Hale, who threw 2 1/3 innings of no-hit hall in relief of Hollstegge, Furman managed to keep it a 1-0 game until the bottom of the sixth inning. That’s when the Paladins brought on Marc DeDecker, who promptly walked Drew Martin to lead off the frame and then surrendered a single to Jones and an RBI double to Havens to make it 2-0.
The Gamecocks went on to score four more runs in the inning to stretch their lead to 6-0.
USC tacked on a pair of runs in both the seventh and eighth innings to close out the scoring.