Box Score
GREENSBORO, NC – Winthrop jumped on North Carolina A&T for six runs in the third inning and went on to defeat the Aggies 12-7 Tuesday night at War Memorial Stadium in a non-conference matchup.
 
The win improves the Eagles to 22-12 while NC A&T lost for the 11^th straight time to fall to 3-27.
 
Winthrop used a 14-hit attack, including a perfect 4-for-4 night by Mark Lowrie to breeze to the win.  Babe Thomas also collected three hits while John Menken collected two hits.  Both Lowrie and Thomas knocked in three runs each.  The Eagles also took advantage of 10 bases on balls allowed by five Aggie pitchers.  Winthrop catcher Roger Gonzalez was the beneficiary of three of those walks to go along with two-run double.
 
Eagle freshman Riley Arnone earned his first win to see his record even up at 1-1.  Arnone pitched five innings and left the game with a 7-3 lead.  Aggie starter Evan Miranda suffered the loss as he lasted 2.1 innings and gave up three runs on just one hit, but he walked four batters.  Charles Cantrell came on in relief in the third, but failed to get anyone out before allowing three more runs on four Winthrop hits.
 
Winthrop added another run in the fourth inning to take a 7-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Lowrie. The Aggies got to Arnone in the fifth for three runs on four hits to make it a 7-3 game, but the Eagles responded with four more runs in the sixth as Gonzalez's two-run double made it 9-3. Lowrie and Thomas followed with RBI singles to push the lead to 11-3. Thomas had another RBI single in the eighth to make it 12-3.
 
The Aggies scored a run in the eighth on a solo homer by Lance Jensen off Eagle reliever Freddy Sultan and then scored three times in the ninth on three hits and a walk off Travis Shelley.
 
The Eagles return to Big South Conference action this weekend when they travel to Radford for a three-game series that gets underway on Friday at 6 p.m.