ROCK HILL, SC—Winthrop's baseball team erased a lopsided loss a month ago by holding The Citadel to just four hits in a 6-4 victory Tuesday night at The Winthrop Ballpark.

The Eagles took advantage of two fielding errors by the Bulldogs in the sixth inning to take a 5-4 lead and then added an insurance run in the eighth to take a 6-4 lead into the top of the ninth.  Junior right hander Daniel Wilcutt, who came on in relief of starter Zach Peek in the third inning, finished the game to earn his first Eagle victory and improve to 1-0.  Bulldog reliever Thomas Byelick suffered the loss and his record drops to 0-3.

The win snapped a three-game skid for the Eagles and improves their overall record to 17-16 while The Citadel is now 10-20. Wilcutt pitched 6.1 innings and allowed a run on two hits. Peek gave up three runs on a pair of hits, including a home run by Sabo. 

Winthrop spotted The Citadel a 3-0 lead after three innings. Jonathan Sabo accounted for two of the runs with a 2-run HR in the third. The Eagles scored single runs in the fourth and fifth while the Bulldogs added a run in the top of the sixth to take a 4-2 lead. 

Winthrop scored three times in the sixth. It started when Hunter Lipscomb was hit by a pitch to open the inning. Tyler Halstead and Brandon Fite delivered back-to-back one-out singles to load the bases. 

Jake Sullivan's grounder to second was mishandled and two runs scored to tie the game.  Matthew Mulkey, the next batter up, then reached on an error by the third baseman that allowed Fite to score with the go ahead run.

Grant English delivered a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to give the Eagles a two-run cushion.

Winthrop will jump back into Big South Conference action this weekend when it plays Liberty Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

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