College of Charleston
UNC Greensboro
Chigges Earns 30th Career Win; CofC Downs UNCG, 6-2
5/11/2007 4:00:00 AM | Baseball
Nick Chigges pitched a complete-game, five-hitter and became just the seventh player in SoCon history to reach 30 career wins while teammate Alex Garabedian belted a two-run homer as 27th-ranked College of Charleston opened its three-game Southern Conference baseball series with a 6-2 victory over UNC Greensboro before 386 at Patriots Point Field on Friday.
With the win, the Cougars improved to 37-13 overall and 18-4 in league play. The Spartans are 25-25 and 11-11. Game two of the series is Saturday at 6:00.
Chigges (10-0), a senior, allowed only two runs and added five strikeouts. He retired the final 10 batters he faced and 14 of the last 15 overall. Chigges improved his career record to 30-4 and his 103 strikeouts is second only to Donato Calandreillo's 109 in 1998 on CofC's single-season list. Ryan Falcon (6-7) suffered the loss surrendering six runs on 11 hits over seven innings.
Jedd Cordisco's RBI double in the second scored Ben Lasater and gave Charleston a 1-0 lead. UNCG got a two-out, bases-loaded RBI single in the fourth from Adam Deleo that scored Greg Feltes and tied the game at 1-1.
Charleston answered in the bottom of the fourth. Graham Maiden was hit by a pitch and Lasater singled to start the inning putting runners after first and second. After Garabedian advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt, Michael Kohn delivered a sacrifice fly to right center scoring Maiden for a 2-1 Charleston lead.
Chris Campbell, who leads the nation with 73 RBI, had a one-out triple to center in the fifth that scored Michael Harrington and stretched Charleston's lead to 3-1. Brandon Harvey's second homer of the season, a solo shot to left center in the sixth, cut CofC's lead to 3-2.
Oliver Marmol's RBI infield hit in the bottom of the sixth gave the Cougars a 4-2 lead. Garabedian's two-run shot to left center in the seventh was his 12th of the season and gave the Cougars a 6-2 advantage.
Charleston, which had 11 hits, got two hits each from Maiden, Lasater and Garabedian. Matt Gaski had a double for the Spartans.
