Wofford baseball loses, 10-2, to UNCG to force deciding game at Southern Conference Tournament
GREENVILLE — Top-seeded Wofford entered Sunday needing only one victory against fourth-seeded UNC Greensboro to win the Southern Conference Baseball Tournament at Fluor Field and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA regionals.
The Terriers are now down to their last chance after losing the first game, 10-2, to force a second game that will now decide the champion. Game 2 is scheduled to begin about 4:10 p.m. Sunday.
It's the second consecutive season the Terriers (42-15-1) began the tournament as the No. 1 seed. Last year they were eliminated on Saturday. Wofford's lone Southern Conference Baseball Tournament championship came in 2007 and accounted for the only time it made an NCAA Regional.
UNCG (33-28) will be playing for the sixth time in this tournament with its only loss coming 6-3 on Friday to Wofford. The Spartans posted two victories in the final two games Saturday, defeating second-seeded Mercer, 16-5, before advancing to the final day with an 8-3 win over third-seeded Samford. UNCG's lone conference tournament title came in 2017.
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Wofford, which will be playing its fourth game of the tournament, swept a three-game regular-season series against the Spartans in addition to this year's tournament victory.
UNCG scored two runs in each of the first two innings and led 4-1 entering the fifth when the Spartans scored six runs (all with two outs) on two hits, two walks and an error. The big blow was freshman Kennedy Jones' three-run homer, his second of the game. He went 3-for-6 with five RBIs.
UNCG senior Austin Parsley threw a complete game, which was huge for a team with a depleted staff after playing five games in five days. He allowed nine hits with five strikeouts and no walks. Wofford's Clay Schwaner allowed only one hit over the final four scoreless innings. Nolen Hester was 2-for-4 with both of Wofford's RBIs.
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