WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Concord University baseball team dropped the final two games of its series with Winston-Salem State Sunday afternoon by scores of 5-1 and 8-5.
The four-game set between the two teams was split at two. The Mountain Lions are now 2-7 this season while Winston-Salem State is 3-8.
Game 1: Winston-Salem State 5 – Concord 1
WSSU scored four early runs and got a stellar performance from Landon Biggs on the mound as Concord fell by four runs in the first game.
The Rams scored two runs each in the first and third innings to take a 4-0 lead. But, Concord answered with a run in the fourth as junior outfielder
Oscar Garcia drove in sophomore infielder
Trevor Wiersma who had doubled in the frame.
Winston-Salem added an insurance run in the fifth.
Freshman infielder
Nathan Neff and Wiersma each finished with two hits for Concord.
Freshman pitcher Josephn Lowder (0-1) was tagged with the loss as he allowed five runs while striking out four batters in six innings.
Biggs tossed a complete game for WSSU as he fanned seven hitters and scattered six hits.
Game 2: Winston-Salem State 8 – Concord 5
Tied at 4-4 in the bottom of the fifth, the Mountain Lions could not hold off a late charge by Winston-Salem State in the nightcap.
CU got the first two runs of the contest as junior infielder
Chad Frazier crossed home plate in the first on a single by sophomore outfielder
Evan Webb, and Concord added another run in the third as Webb scampered home on a WSSU error.
The Rams got four runs in the bottom of the third, but the Mountain Lions quickly answered in the top of the fifth with two more runs coming courtesy of run scoring hits from sophomore catcher
Jordan Clark and freshman infielder
Jakob Divers. Clark's single scored Wiersma while Clark circled the bases on Divers' base knock.
Winston-Salem State scored four runs in its final two at-bats, and CU could only plate one run in the sixth, a Frazier run off of a Rams error, as WSSU held off Concord by three runs.
Divers, Neff, Wiersma and Webb all had two-hit games for Concord. Webb added two RBI to notch a multi-RBI game for the second time in the last three contests.
Sophomore pitcher
Reed McNeer (0-1) was charged with the loss out of the bullpen.
CU continues non-conference play 12:00 p.m. Saturday as it welcomes Pitt-Johnstown to Anderson Field for a doubleheader.
