Friday, May 7, 2003
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Barrows and Blades Pace Camels To 10-6 Win Over Gardner-Webb

BUIES CREEK, N.C.- Campbell's Derek Barrows went 3-4 with a home run and three RBI and Josh Blades pitched his fourth complete game of the season to lead the Fighting Camels to a 10-6, Atlantic Sun victory over Gardner Webb, Friday night in Buies Creek.
The Camels struck for a pair of runs in the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead. After Sal Deanda opened the frame with a double, Gardner-Webb starter Joey Siak battled back to strike out Phillip Strickland and Tom Rispoli. Siak then hit Jason Brown to put runners on first and second. Barrows followed with bloop single to center field, scoring Deanda and moving Brown to third base. Alston Hatch then drove in Brown with a single to left field.
The Bulldogs responded with two runs of their own in the top half of the third inning. David Futrelle led the inning off with a home run to left field. Ryan Quirello then lined a single to left field and moved to second on Jay Bennett ground out to first base. Billy McCarson singled to left to drive in Quirello and tie the game at 2-2. Gardner-Webb loaded the bases, but Blades struck out Clint Abernathy to end the inning.
With one out in the fourth inning, Chris Wiley walked and Jeff Blick singled to put runners on first and second. Deanda then doubled to left field scoring both runners, giving the Camels a 4-2 lead.
Barrows added to the Camel lead in the fifth inning when he drove a Siak offering over the left field fence for his sixth home run of the year, extending the Camel lead to 5-2.
The CU lead jumped to 9-2 after scoring four runs in the sixth inning off GWU reliever Kevin Wellmon. Phillip Strickland led off with a single and scored when the next batter, Rispoli doubled to left field. Rispoli moved to third on throw home trying to cut down Strickland and scored when Brown lined a shot up the middle, through draw in infield. Alston Hatch singled to left to move Brown to second with one out. Kyle Ellenz then singled to right field, scoring Brown and moving Hatch to third. The Camels final run came when Ellenz stole second, Hatch advanced home on the throw by Bulldog catcher Jay Bennett.
In the bottom of the seventh inning Barrows two out RBI single, plating Rispoli and making the score 10-2.
After Blades retired the first two batters in the eighth inning, Sam Bradford singled and was brought home on Futrelle's second home run of the game. Quirello then reach base on a single. Jay Bennett followed with a home run to left field to cut the Camel lead to 10-6.
With the win Blades record stands at 5-1, while Siak's falls to 7-5. The Camels are now 20-24 and 12-16 in the Atlantic Sun. Gardner-Webb drops to 29-20 and 14-14 in the A-Sun.
These two teams will square off in doubleheader action tomorrow beginning at 1:00 p.m. Tomorrow will also mark the final home games for nine Camels seniors, who will be honored prior to game one. [Box Score]