ROCK HILL, S.C. – Grant English and Hunter Lipscomb combined for nine RBI to lead Winthrop to a 15-7 victory and completing the three-game series sweep of Longwood, Saturday afternoon at The Winthrop Ballpark.
Winthrop improves to 12-13 overall and remains unbeaten in Big South action at 6-0 and has won seven straight games overall. Longwood falls to 6-15 overall and 1-5 in the league.

HOW IT HAPPENED
-After three scoreless innings, Longwood took a 1-0 lead in the top of the 4th on a two-out RBI double from Jawan McAlister
-The Eagles struck back immediately in the bottom half of the 4^th as Hunter Lipscomb hit a three-run homerun as he pulled one to right for his second of the season
-Winthrop posted four more runs in the fifth inning for a 7-1 lead
-Scout McFalls walked with one out and stole second followed by Brandon Fite being hit by a pitch
-Mitch Spires came through with an RBI single that moved Fite to second and scored McFalls from second
-Following a pitching change by Longwood, Grant English tripled to center to plate Spires and Fite
-Dillon Morton drove in the fourth run of the inning on an RBI single to right field
-Winthrop posted its third straight big inning in the sixth as it pushed its lead to 12-1
-In the sixth, McFalls had an RBI double followed by back-to-back RBI singles from Spires and English
-Lipscomb walked with the bases loaded to make it 11-1 and Jake Sullivan made it 12-1 with a sacrifice fly
-After Longwood got two back in the top of the seventh, the Eagles matched the Lancers in the bottom half
-Alex Raines doubled to get things started followed by a single from McFalls and a walk by Spires to load the bases
-English came through with a single to right, scoring McFalls and Raines
-Smith added an RBI single in the 8^th for a 15-3 lead before Longwood posted four runs in the top of the seventh for a 15-7 win
-Colten Rendon got the win in relief as he tossed four innings allowing three runs on six hits with no walks and two strikeouts and is now 3-2 on the year
-English finished with a career-high in hits with five and RBI with five as he finished 5-for-5 and also had three runs
-Lipscomb finished 1-for-3 with a run and four RBI while Spires was 2-for-4 with two runs, two RBI
-McFalls had three runs and was 2-for-3 with an RBI

NOTABLES
-English is swinging one of the hottest bats in the league as he's 12-for-17 with nine RBI in the last four games
-English moved his batting average up 49 points and now leads the team with a .357 average
-Fite extended his hitting streak to six games, which currently leads the team while extended his streak of reaching base to nine straight
-Spires extended his streak of reaching base to 11 straight games and also had an RBI in eight of the last nine games
-Winthrop has now scored 10 or more runs in three of its six conference games so far, outscoring opponents 63-25

 
UP NEXT
Winthrop heads to Spartanburg, SC on Tuesday, Mar. 27 for a non-conference contest against Wofford College at 6 p.m. Then next weekend (Mar. 29-31) the Eagles will head to High Point for a three-game series beginning Friday at 6 p.m.