Maryland
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Terrapins Are Swept by UNCG
6/21/1999 8:00:00 AM | Baseball
February 22, 1999
GREENSBORO, N.C. - UNCG scored five runs in the seventh inning en route to a 7-4 baseball victory over Maryland Sunday at home, sweeping the three-game weekend series. It was the third straight come-from-behind win for the Spartans, who have won six in a row after dropping their season opener.
Bill Stone and Mark Oetjen led off the seventh with consecutive doubles, chasing Terrapin starting pitcher Jamie Hammond. Oetjen's two-bagger scored Stone. Brandon Weber followed with a single and Jeff Smith, a run-scoring single, which chased reliever Ryan Fleetwood, and Jeremy Purcell doubled home two more runs off reliever Joe Hart.
Maryland scored pairs of runs in the second and fifth innings. Brian Patenaude and Casey Trout opened the fifth with consecutive doubles to retire Spartan starting pitcher Jonathan Jackson. and build a 4-0 advantage.
Smith pulled the Spartans to within 4-2 with his fourth homer of the season, a two-run shot to left field, in the fifth inning. He was three-for-four with three RBI and two runs scored in the game and was seven-for-14 with four extra-base hits for the three-game series. Freshman Everett Hancock got the pitching victory, working five innings of relief, allowing four hits, striking out two and walking two. He worked out of a jam in the sixth when the Spartans committed fielding errors on three straight Maryland batters.
Patenaude and Chuck Easter had two hits apiece for the Terps, who are 3-6.
UNCG hosts Liberty February 24. Maryland next plays March 2 at James Madison.
