UNC Wilmington Pulls Away Late to Take Series Finale from QU Baseball

Sunday, March 18

Wilmington, N.C. / Brooks Field

2:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

8-9

UNC Wilmington

14-6

Quinnipiac

UNCW

UNC Wilmington Pulls Away Late to Take Series Finale from QU Baseball

3/18/2018 4:55:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

WILMINGTON, North Carolina - Ryan Jeffers was 4-for-4 with two doubles and four RBI as the UNC Wilmington baseball team broke open a tight game late with eight runs in their final two at-bats to take a 12-3 win over Quinnipiac in the series finale on Sunday afternoon at Brooks Field. Sophomore Kyle Horton, making his second start of the year, had a two-run triple and scored a run to help the Bobcats tie the score at 3-3 in the top of the fifth.

LOCATION
Brooks Field | Wilmington, N.C.

SCORE
UNC Wilmington 12 // Quinnipiac 3

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (8-9, 0-0 MAAC) // UNC Wilmington (15-7, 0-0 CAA)

NOTES

The Bobcats were playing their final game of a 17-game Southern schedule, including eight games in nine days on its current Spring Break trip.
UNC Wilmington starter Landen Roupp took a no-hitter into the fifth inning before it was broken up by a single from senior first baseman Ben Gibson (pictured) to put two runners on base.
Sophomore designated hitter Kyle Horton then followed with a two-run triple to close UNC Wilmington's lead to 3-2, before coming home to tie the score at 3-3 on an RBI groundout from freshman second baseman Ian Ostberg.
UNC Wilmington took the lead back in the bottom half of the fifth on an RBI double from Ryan Jeffers (4-fpr-4, 4 RBI).
Mason Berne hit a two-run double in the seventh to stretch the lead to 6-3 and came around to score, and the Seahawks added five more runs in the eighth, keyed by a Jeffers two-run double, to break it wide open.
The Bobcats finished with four hits on the day, with sophomore shortstop Dylan Lutz and senior outfielder Julius Saporito adding singles.
Junior starter Tyler Poulin had a solid effort, striking out eight with one walk, and allowing four runs over six innings in defeat.

NEXT UP
The Bobcats begin the Northern portion of their schedule with two in-state rivalry games this week, traveling to UConn on Tuesday and welcoming Yale to Hamden on Wednesday.