Buies Creek, N.C. – Campbell pitching dominated the day as the Camels swept the doubleheader to earn the series win over Winthrop. It took a walk-off in game one for a 6-5 final before a lights-out performance in game two led the Camels to an 8-1 win.
With the sweep, Campbell improves to 12-8 and 7-5 in the Big South while Winthrop falls below .500 at 8-9, 5-4 in the league.
Thomas Harrington struck out a season-high 10, the most by any Camel pitcher this year, across 5.2 innings of work in game one.
Not to be outdone,
Ryan Chasse tossed 6.2 innings before surrendering a hit as the staff threw a combined one-hitter in game two. The one-hitter was the first thrown by Campbell since opening day of the 2016 season against Miami (Ohio).
The offense wasn't particularly explosive for the Camels, as they never scored more than two runs in a single inning, but it was consistent. Campbell scored a run in 11 of their 17 innings at the plate to keep constant pressure on the Eagles pitching and defense.
Game 1 Recap
There was plenty of offense in the early stages of the first game.
Collin Wolf didn't waste much time getting the Camels on the board with a first-inning sac fly. Winthrop responded with a run of their own in the top of the second to draw even at 1-1.
With two outs in the second,
Lawson Harrill roped one to left for the first home run of his career to put the Camels back up at 1-1.
Harrington was dialed in during the fourth and fifth innings, striking out five of six batters in the innings to preserve the lead. But the freshman ran into some trouble in the fifth and allowed three runs, all unearned, to put Winthrop up 4-2.
Campbell got one back in the sixth on a
Matthew Christian sac fly before
Spencer Packard's two-run single in the seventh gave Campbell the 5-4 lead.
Down to their final out, an error and triple pushed an Eagle across in the ninth to tie the game. They would go on to load the bases, but Neto escaped the jam with the score tied to give Campbell a chance to win it in the ninth.
Wolf did just that, lifting his second sac fly of the day to plate
Bryce Arnold and help the Camels walk it off.
Game 2 Recap
Campbell jumped out to another early lead thanks to a two-run single by
Zach Neto to put the Camels up 2-0 before Winthrop could record its first out.
Campbell's lead grew steadily over the next three innings, adding one run in each frame. Harrill and Wolf each recorded RBIs and another run scored on a balk.
The rest of the Camels offense was supplied by Packard, who drove in a run in the sixth and two more in the eighth. The senior now has a team-high 26 RBIs on the season after adding five to his total today.
Winthrop's lone run scored in the sixth. With two outs and a runner on, an errant throw to first after a dropped third strike made its way to the right field corner and allowed the runner from first to score. Chasse got the next batter to ground out and preserve his no-hitter for the time being.
The first Eagle hit came with two outs in the seventh when Joe McNamara lined one to center field that fell in front of Halstead. 6.2 hitless innings ties Chasse's career-long hitless outing, having gone the same distance Charleston Southern in 2019.
Jonathan Tyler and
Fred Sisco each pitched a hitless inning of relief to secure the 8-1 Camel victory.
Campbell will go for the sweep tomorrow at 2 p.m. That game stream has been moved to ESPN3 rather than the originally scheduled ESPN+.
