College of Charleston
The Citadel
CofC Sweeps The Citadel, 10-4
4/29/2007 4:00:00 AM | Baseball
Oliver Marmol, Ben Lasater and Graham Maiden homered, and Michael Bunton pitched five strong innings as 25th-ranked College of Charleston downed The Citadel, 10-4, completing a three-game Southern Conference series sweep before 1,244 at Joe Riley Park on Sunday.
Charleston, which has won eight straight at Riley Park, improved to 34-10 overall and 15-3 in league play. The Bulldogs fell to 24-19 and 8-10. The Cougars finish the regular season 4-0 against its rival and have won 14 of the past 20 meetings in the series dating back to 2003.
Marmol gave Charleston a 1-0 first inning lead when he homered to the left on the game's first pitch, his sixth of the season.
The Citadel responded with three runs in the bottom of the first. Zach Brown had a two-run single and Richard Jones drove in a run with a double play grounder to give the Bulldogs a 3-1 lead.
Trailing 3-2 entering the fourth, Charleston scored twice and grabbed the lead for good. Michael Kohn's one-out triple to left center scored Alex Garabedian to tie the game at 3-3. Kohn scored on a two-out wild pitch for a 4-3 Charleston advantage.
Lasater's team-leading 12th homer of the season, a two-run shot to left center, gave the Cougars a 7-3 lead in the fifth. Marmol's RBI single in the sixth stretched Charleston's lead to 8-3.
After the Bulldogs cut the margin to 8-4 with a run in the sixth, Maiden led off the eighth with an opposite field homer to left center, his 7th of the season, to give CofC a 9-4 lead. Stuart Haywood scored on a wild pitch in the ninth for the final margin.
Bunton (4-0), who picked up the win, settled down after allowing three runs on two hits and two walks in the first inning. All total, Bunton worked five innings allowing four runs on four hits.
Russ Tomlinson picked up his second save of the season as he blanked the Bulldogs on just two hits with a strikeout over the last four innings. Citadel starter Chris McGuiness (2-1) suffered the loss surrendering seven runs on 10 hits over 4 1/3 innings.
