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Winner Lenoir-Rhyne LR 20-11, 9-5 SAC
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Wingate WU 23-8, 10-4 SAC
Winner
Lenoir-Rhyne LR
20-11, 9-5 SAC
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Final
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Wingate WU
23-8, 10-4 SAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Lenoir-Rhyne LR 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 8 0
Wingate WU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

W: Sullivan, Matt (4-1) L: H. Hamilton (1-2) S: Whitson, Landon (8)

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Lenoir-Rhyne LR 20-12, 9-6 SAC
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Winner Wingate WU 24-8, 11-4 SAC
Lenoir-Rhyne LR
20-12, 9-6 SAC
0
Final
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Wingate WU
24-8, 11-4 SAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Lenoir-Rhyne LR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Wingate WU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 2

W: A. Turgeon (3-2) L: Grigg, John (5-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

LR Baseball Splits Doubleheader With First-Place Wingate On The Road

Wingate, N.C. – The Lenoir-Rhyne Baseball Team (20-12, 9-6) split a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader with first-place Wingate (24-8, 11-4) Sunday afternoon at Ron Christopher Stadium.  LR won the first contest by a 4-0 score while Wingate pulled out the 1-0 victory in the nightcap in eight innings to force the split.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Final: Lenoir-Rhyne 4, Wingate 0; Wingate 1, Lenoir-Rhyne 0 (eight innings)
Records: Lenoir-Rhyne (20-12, 9-6 SAC), Wingate (24-8, 11-4 SAC)
Location: Ron Christopher Stadium | Wingate, N.C.
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STATS OF THE GAME (Game 1):
•    Lenoir-Rhyne senior Matt Sullivan (Bristol, Va.) improved to 4-1 on the year after throwing a one-hitter over seven innings.  Sullivan also struck out nine batters while senior Landon Whitson (Marion, N.C.) threw two scoreless innings for his school-record eighth save of the year for the Bears.
•    Lenoir-Rhyne junior designated hitter Caleb Beatty (Falls Church, Va.) hit a pair of solo home runs in back-to-back innings – the sixth and seventh frames – while senior catcher Cole Fowler (Dobson, N.C.) also drove in a pair of runs in the victory.
•    Wingate's Hunter Hamilton (Troy, N.C.) fell to 1-2 after taking the loss.

STATS OF THE GAME (Game 2):
•    The Bulldogs' Bradley Brown (Hamlet, N.C.) broke a scoreless tie with a walk-off single with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning.
•    Wingate's Austin Turgeon (Athens, Ga.) (3-2) threw a three-hit shutout to go along with six strikeouts and outdueled Lenoir-Rhyne sophomore John Grigg (Lawndale, N.C.).  Grigg (5-1) also went the distance in addition to striking out seven batters.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE:
•    Before giving up a run in the final at-bat, Lenoir-Rhyne held Wingate off the scoreboard for 17 consecutive innings.
•    Beatty had the Bears' first two-homer game since junior first baseman Alex Reynolds (Kings Mountain, N.C.) hit a pair of round-trippers on April 7, 2017, a 10-1 victory over Wingate at Bears Field.

UP NEXT:
Lenoir-Rhyne returns home to face Augusta on Tuesday at Bears Field beginning at 5:00 p.m.  Wingate hosts Erskine on Monday starting at 3:00 p.m.
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