Box Score
ROCK HILL, SC – The Winthrop baseball team held its opponent scoreless for the second time this season with a 9-0 win over The Citadel Bulldogs on Wednesday evening at The Winthrop Ballpark.
The Eagles improve to 15-14 on the season, while the Bulldogs fall to 10-19 overall.
Matteo D'Angelo (4-4) tossed 5.0 innings of shutout baseball as he earned the win on the mound allowing four hits, no walks and six strikeouts. Bryce Hines (2-3) took the loss surrendering three runs on two hits, one walk and no strikeouts as he faced only three batters in the first inning.
“It was a solid game tonight in all three phases,” said head coach Tom Riginos. “We pitched extraordinarily well. Matteo started off for us and did an unbelievable job.”
Eddie Rohan's second home run of the season, a three-run shot, gave Winthrop a 3-0 lead over The Citadel in the bottom of the first inning. Hines started the inning by giving up a leadoff single to right field by Tyler Cook and walking Chas Crane. The long ball by Rohan was the 44th of his career and moves him into fourth place in the Big South Conference for career home runs. He needs just two more homers to move past Mike Costanzo of Coastal Carolina (2003-05) for third place all-time.
Adam Gliebe made it a 4-0 ballgame in the third inning with his RBI sacrifice fly to center field, and the Eagles would add two more runs in the fifth inning and one in the sixth. The fifth inning was highlighted by a RBI groundout by Brett Thomas and Cam Walters' two-out RBI single to center field. Matt Lobacz provided the only run of the sixth inning on his RBI sacrifice fly to center field. The three runs extended Winthrop's lead to 7-0.
Walters drove in his second run of the game on an RBI fielder's choice in the bottom of the eighth inning, while Max Vogel also contributed an RBI single for the Eagles with one out in the inning.
“The one thing I am proud of is the performance that we had tonight and the guys got themselves ready to play,” Riginos said.
Along with his three-run homer on the evening, Rohan has also moved into a first place tie at Winthrop with Bennett Stapf (2001-04) in career hit by pitches. Both players have been hit by a pitch 44 times in their careers.
The Eagles have now posted 10 or more hits in seven consecutive games, with the 17 hits on Wednesday night the second-most on the season.
Gliebe, Lobacz and Walters all led Winthrop offensively with three hits, and Rohan drove in a team-high three runs with his homer. Matt Simonelli, William Ladd and Drew DeKerlegand each had two hits for the Bulldogs.
The Eagles will open a three-game Big South Conference series with the UNC Asheville Bulldogs on Friday, Apr. 8 at 6 p.m.
