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BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – After being held to three hits in game one falling 8-1, North Carolina Central University could not hold a 2-1 lead after six innings as the Runnin’ Bulldogs of Gardner-Webb to plated the game-winning run in the 11th inning to sweep the doubleheader at John Henry Moss Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
 
With the score 1-0 in favor of Gardner-Webb in the sixth, junior Troy Marrow (Luttherville, Md.) drilled his fifth double of the season to left center field to give the Eagles their first and only lead of the day at 2-1 scoring senior Luis Diaz (Geneva, N.Y.) and junior Tyson Simpson (Burgaw, N.C.).
 
The advantage was short-lived for the Eagles as the Runnin’ Bulldogs knotted the game up at 2-2 on a Henry Rudino double down the left field line.
 
Both teams went down in order in the eighth, while NCCU threatened with a runner on second base and two outs in the ninth but could not plate the run sending the contest into extra innings when GWU was unable to mount a rally.
 
In the 10th and 11th frame for the maroon and gray did not record a single hit.  In fact, junior Spencer Franceschetti (Escalon, Calif.) was the lone student-athlete to reach base on a Gardner-Webb throwing error.
 
GWU put the game away in the bottom-half of the 11th on John Harris’s double to left center field as the Diamond Dogs were given an extra life after an Eagle fielding error.  The unearned run gave Gardner-Webb the 3-2 win and the series victory.
 
Senior righty Glenn Frye (Lillington, N.C.)  threw 9.0 innings scattering seven hits with seven strikeouts and only one walk.  Despite taking the loss, junior reliever Jacob Russell (Winston-Salem, N.C.) threw 1.2 innings surrendering only one hit with one strikeout.
 
Offensively, Simpson was the lone Eagle to record more than one his as he went 2-for-5 at-the-dish, while the 5-6-7 hitter for GWU combined for six of the eight Runnin’ Bulldog hits.
 
Gardner-Webb’s (24-22-1) pitching staff combined for 19 strikeouts in the win.
 
The first game of the day saw GWU storm out to a 7-0 lead in the first three innings with four in the first, one in the second, and two in the third.  The Eagles did not record their first hit until the third inning and was held to three hits in dropping the first contest 8-1.

NCCU (25-25, 12-12 MEAC) will look to salvage a game in the non-conference series on Sunday, May 5 at 1:00 p.m. from John Henry Moss Stadium.
 
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