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ROCK HILL, SC – The Winthrop baseball team dropped its series finale contest against the Radford Highlanders on Saturday afternoon by a score of 9-0 at The Winthrop Ballpark.

The Eagles fall to 13-28 on the season and 6-9 in conference play, while the Highlanders improve their record to 23-16 overall and 8-4 in the conference.

Mark Peterson (3-1) earned the win tossing 7.1 scoreless innings and gave up four hits, three walks and six strikeouts. Tyler Klitsch (2-4) took the loss allowing seven runs (six earned) on 11 hits, no walks and two strikeouts in 3.1 innings of work.

Radford scored in each of the first five innings of the afternoon to take an 8-0 lead over Winthrop. The Highlanders tallied two runs in the first, one each in the second, third and fifth innings, and three in the fourth. Jeff Kemp recorded the first RBI of the game with his sacrifice fly in the second and Brett Mollenhauer then scored as Matt Hillsinger reached on a fielder's choice. Mollenhauer posted an RBI sacrifice fly in the second, while Carl Travers drove in Cory Turner on an RBI single to center field in the third inning. The three-run fourth inning saw Kemp, Hillsinger and Westyn Baylor collect an RBI each, and Mollenhauer brought in his second run of the game in the fifth with an RBI sacrifice fly.

The Eagles held Radford scoreless over the next two innings before surrendering a run in the top of the eighth on Baylor's RBI single to right center field. The Highlanders would go ahead 9-0 on the hit by Baylor.

Five different Radford hitters recorded two hits each on the afternoon, while Mollenhauer, Kemp and Baylor had two RBI each. Justin Hopper, TJ Olesczuk, Matt Lobacz and Patrick McLendon had one hit apiece for Winthrop.

The Eagles will be back in action on Tuesday, Apr. 24 as they host the Wake Forest Demon Deacons at 6 p.m.