March 21, 2007
Box Score
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Charleston Southern Buccaneers got back on the winning track as they beat the University of Maryland Eastern Shoren (UMES) 5-1, Wednesday afternoon at Buccaneer Field. The victory broke a four-game losing streak for CSU, and was the second-straight loss for the Hawks. CSU improved to 12-15 on the season, while UMES fell to 3-16 with the loss.
Starter Cody Higgins pitched well, going 7.2 innings, giving up just one run on eight hits, striking out four. Payton Tweddale earned his third save of the season as he finished things up facing just four batters, striking two of them out. The Bucs tallied 11 hits, with Justin Fyle, Anthony Hayes and Will Rodriguez each notching two hits.
For the Hawks, Jamar Cadejuste took the loss, going to 0-4 on the season as he allowed four of the five Buccaneer runs.
CSU scored twice in the bottom of the first to take an early lead, as the first three batters reached safely. A sacrifice fly by Stephen Herzog scored Brundridge, who drew a leadoff walk to start things going. Fyle moved the third on a wild pitch, and came around to score on a single to short by Chris Krogmeier.
The lead was cut in half in the third as UMES scored their only run with three singles, scoring James Walls. Eric Gaines and Joel Gonzalez woulf collect the hits in that inning.
Gaines would tally a pair of hits on the day while Gonzalez would go 3-4 with Hawks only RBI. Kevin Hillenburg Josh Dean would record the other hits for UMES.
CSU would extend their lead out to 4-1 with two runs in the fifth, thanks to an RBI double by Herzog, scoring Hayes from first base. After Herzog stole third base, his eighth stolen base of the season, a sacrifice fly by Stewart plated the run.
Charleston Southern tacked on one more in the eighth when a leadoff walk by reliever Dustin Longchamps to Krogmeier came around on a single to right field by Rodriguez.
UMES now travels to Savannah State where they face the Tigers in a double header on Thursday before returning home to open conference play with a three game series against Coppin State starting with a double header on Saturday.
Portions of this release appear compliments of the CSU Sports Information Office.
