Spartanburg, S.C. – Campbell pitching dominated the day as the Camels swept the doubleheader and the series against USC Upstate with a pair of shutout wins, 12-0 (7 inn.) and 8-0 at Harley Park. Ryan Chasse and Thomas Harrington each tossed complete games and allowed a combined three hits and no runs in 16 innings of work.
 
With the sweep, Campbell now sits atop the Big South standings at 30-14, 25-9 in the Big South. Upstate drops to 34-13, 25-12 in the league. The Camels now control their own destiny for the Big South regular season title, needing two wins in the final series of the season against High Point next week to clinch the title outright.
 
Game One Recap
The Camels offense was working early and often in a 12-0 win to lock in the series win.
 
The offense didn't need to do much the way Ryan Chasse was throwing. He tossed a complete-game shutout and finished with a stellar line of 7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K. The lefty was ultra-efficient and needed only 72 pitches on the afternoon to log the complete game.
 
But the bats showed up anyways, starting just two pitches in on a Bryce Arnold lead-off home run, his fourth of the year. Campbell tacked on two more on a Spencer Packard two-run single in the third.
 
Mason De La Cruz broke the game open in the fourth with a three-run blast, his first home run as a Camel. De La Cruz had a huge day at the dish, going 2-2 with three RBI and four runs scored. He was one of two Camels to score four times on the day, along with Arnold.
 
Campbell reached the 10-run threshold with a four-run sixth inning featuring a two-run double from Connor Denning and two sac flies, one each from Matthew Christian and Collin Wolf.
 
Chasse made it look easy throughout the ballgame but did see some traffic on the bases. He allowed the leadoff man to reach in each of the first three innings and managed to work around all of them. Upstate really threatened in the fifth getting two on and nobody out. A wild pitch looked like it might put the Spartans on the board, but Ty Babin recovered and flipped to Chasse covering home to keep them scoreless.
 
Campbell scored its 12 runs on just seven hits thanks to and additional 14 free passes on 11 walks and three hit batters. Four Camels had multi-RBI games paced by De La Cruz with three.
 
Game Two Recap
Thomas Harrington turned in the best start by a Camel this season with a complete-game one hitter on only 82 pitches and just facing one batter over the minimum. He finished with a line of 9.0, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 8 K. After allowing a single in the second inning and the next batter reached on a dropped third strike, he retired the final 22 batters of the game.
 
Grant Harris had a huge game at the plate to back up Harrington on the hill. The senior outfielder homered in the second and eighth innings for the first multi-home run game of his career. He finished 2-3 with two home runs and three RBIs.
 
Campbell scored one run in each the second, fourth and sixth innings thanks to solo home runs from Harris and Packard and an RBI single from Arias.
 
The Camels led just 3-0 heading to the eighth, but Harris' three-run blast and an RBI single from Wolf helped post a four-spot and break the game open at 8-0. Christian added another RBI single in the ninth to extend the lead to 9-0.
 
Five Camels had multi-hit games in the finale. The 4-7 spots in the order all notched two hits and at least one RBI in the ballgame.
 
Notables
Campbell picked up its first ever series win at USC Upstate. The teams had met for just three prior series, in 2008 and 2010, then again in 2019 when Upstate joined the league.
 
Campbell has now swept three consecutive three-game series for the first time since sweeping Hartford, Lafayette and Fairleigh Dickinson from Feb. 21 – Mar. 9, 2013.
 
Campbell picked up its first two shutouts of the season, and first back-to-back shutouts since doing so against New Orleans on May 16-17, 2013.
 
Campbell shut out both games of a doubleheader for the first time since winning two games 4-0 against Armstrong State on Feb. 28, 1981.
 
The 12-0 win was the largest margin of victory ever by Campbell over the Spartans, surpassing the previous mark of 10 in an 11-1 win on May 19, 2011.
 
Ryan Chasse tossed his second seven-inning complete game in the last three weeks. His last came in a 12-2 win over UNC Asheville on May 1.
 
Harrington tied the program record with a complete-game one hitter. Campbell has never thrown a nine-inning no hitter. It was the first nine-inning complete game since Cam Cowan in the 2020 season-opener against South Alabama.
 
Harrington is the first Camel to throw a CG one-hitter since at least 2006. It's the first one-hitter thrown by Campbell since Feb. 19, 2016 in the season-opener against Miami (OH) (three pitchers). Only three total have been thrown since 2006.
 
After going 78 at bats without a home run, and without one yet this season, Grant Harris hit two during the second game, a solo shot in the second and a three-run blast in the eighth. That was the first multi-home run game of his career.
 
Including the final 3.2 innings of yesterday's game, Logan Heintzman, Chasse and Harrington held Upstate to only four hits across the last 19.2 innings.
 
Up Next
Campbell will wrap up the regular season back home at Jim Perry Stadium with a three-game series against High Point Thursday and Friday. As things stand, Campbell needs two wins to clinch the Big South regular season title outright. They'll get the chance for the first of those two wins beginning Thursday night at 5 o'clock. The regular season will conclude with a double header Friday beginning at 2 p.m.