ROCK HILL, S.C. – Campbell got a pair of wins across 11 innings of baseball on Saturday to take thee series at Winthrop. After Friday's action was suspended in the eighth inning due to rain, the teams picked back up at 4 pm for the conclusion of that one and the regularly scheduled Saturday contest.
Campbell took game one 13-10 and game two 8-7. The wins advance Campbell to 29-14, 15-2 in the Big South, while Winthrop falls to 13-31, 7-10 in the league.
Game One Recap
Game one featured two weather delays and seven innings on Friday before finishing the final two innings Saturday in a 13-10 win.
Connor Denning had a monster game at the plate, going 5-5 but reaching safely in all six at-bats. He also scored three times and drove in a pair. It's the first five-hit day of his career, and the second by a Camel this season along with
Grant Knipp against Presbyterian.
Thomas Harrington tossed a clean first inning and Campbell led 4-0 before a 2:28 minute weather delay in the middle of the second inning cut Harrington's day short. The bullpen was then responsible for pitching eight innings. The trio of
Jonathan Beymer, Garrett Kangas and
Cameron O'Brien finished the job.
Beymer got the win on the hill for 3.0 innings as the first reliever to appear. Kangas tossed three as well and O'Brien handled the final two.
The four home runs on the day are Campbell's most since hitting five at NC A&T on 4/14, and is the sixth time hitting four or more this season. Belbin began the barrage with a blast to right in the second.
Drake Pierson launched a two-run shot in the fourth, and
Connor Denning and
Ty Babin went deep three batters apart as part of a five-run in the sixth.
Campbell led by as many as eight at 13-5, but allowed Winthrop to plate three in the seventh and two more in the ninth to cur the final tally to 13-10.
Game Two Recap
Winthrop hung in striking distance for most of the game and nearly erased a four-run deficit in the ninth, but Campbell hung on to win 8-7 and take the series.
The Camels got two early on an RBI single from Neto and a solo home run from Babin. Babin has now gone deep two games in a row, and in three of the last four and has eight on the season.
Belbin hit his second blast of the weekend in the fifth to put Campbell up 4-0. Belbin and Pierson are now tied for the team lead with 11 homers each on the season.
With runners on second and third in the sixth, both runners took off on a suicide squeeze that allowed two runs to score, as
Waldy Arias never slowed down around third and scored on the throw to first.
Campbell got an important insurance run in the ninth on a pair of errors from the Winthrop short stop to push the lead to 8-4.
The Eagles put two on before a three-run blast made it a one-run game with nobody out.
Ryan Chasse inherited the tying run on base but got two strikeouts and an infield pop-up to close it out and get the save.
