Box Score FARMVILLE, VA – The Winthrop baseball team won the rubber match of its series against Longwood as the Eagles took a 7-3 Big South Conference victory on Saturday afternoon at Buddy Bolding Stadium.

The Eagles are now 23-17 overall and 10-5 in the Big South, while Longwood falls to 13-25 and 5-10. Winthrop will be home on Tuesday to play Davidson at 4 p.m.

Babe Thomas got the Eagles on the board in the top of the second when he connected for a solo shot to right field--his third home run on the weekend.

Winthrop freshman Colton Rendon pitched a strong game as he went 7.1 innings while giving up three runs on seven hits and improved to 5-3 on the season. Junior Riley Arnone earned his second save by retiring the last five outs. The loss went to Zach Potojecki who went  three innings and allowed two runs on two hits to  fall to 2-5 on the season.

Winthrop added a run in the third on a sacrifice fly by Anthony Paulsen that scored Matthew Mulkey from third.and added two more runs in the sixth when Hunter Lipscomb's single up the middle drove home English and Paulsen. The Eagles went ahead 5-0 with a single run in the seventh when Grant English drove home Jake Sullivan with a base hit. They added two insurance runs in the ninth highlighted by a RBI double by Mitch Spires to make it a  7-3 game.

The Lancers got on the board in the bottom of the eighth with three runs. Brandon Harvell hit a bases loaded single down the left field line two plate two runs, and they added another run on a sacrifice fly by Michael Osinski that scored Ryan Shull from third.

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