College of Charleston
Winthrop
CofC Edges Winthrop in 10 Innings, 11-9
4/18/2007 4:00:00 AM | Baseball
Graham Maiden's run-scoring single with one out in the top of the 10th inning scored Michael Harrington from second base lifting 30th-ranked College of Charleston to an 11-9 win over Winthrop in college baseball action before 592 at Winthrop Ballpark on Wednesday.
Charleston, which rallied from a 7-2 fourth inning deficit, improved to 29-9 on the season. The Eagles fell to 22-19.
Harrington led off the 10th with a single to left field and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Ben Lasater. Maiden drove in the go-ahead run with his second hit of the night. Gabe Marchant's RBI grounder scored Maiden for the final margin.
Righty Brian Schlitter (3-3), Charleston's fourth pitcher of the game, picked up the win. Schlitter blanked the Eagles on three hits with three strikeouts over the final three innings. Owen Reid (1-2) suffered the loss surrendering two runs on two hits in one inning of relief.
Trailing by five runs entering the fourth, Alex Garabedian belted a two-run homer to right center that cut Winthrop's lead to 7-4. It was his sixth home run of the season.
Charleston's Ben Lasater belted his team-leading 10th homer of the season, a three-run shot to center in the fifth that tied the game at 7-7. Garabedian added an RBI double later in the frame to give Charleston an 8-7 advantage.
After Chris Carrara's two-run double in the bottom of the fifth gave Winthrop a 9-8 advantage, the Cougars tied it at 9-9 in the seventh on Stuart Haywood's RBI grounder that scored Michael Kohn.
The Eagles erased a 2-0 Charleston lead in the first on run-producing hits from Kevin Nolan, Billy Froehlich and Eddie Tisdale for a 3-2 lead. Tommy Lentz stretched the lead to 4-2 when he led off the second with a solo homer to left field, his third of the season. The Eagles added three runs in the third to chase Charleston starter Jake Goldberg.
The Cougars, who haven't scored fewer than seven runs in 11 games in April, pounded out 16 hits. Harrington, Lasater, Garabedian and Chris Campbell had three hits each. Lasater drove in four runs, while Garabedian added three RBI.
The Cougars open a three-game Southern Conference series with Furman at Patriots Point Field at 6:00 on Friday.
