University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
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Asheville Runs into Hot Wofford Team Sunday Afternoon
02.28.2016 | Baseball
THE RUNDOWN
Score: Wofford 8 – Asheville 5
Teams: Asheville (2-4, 0-0 BSC)
Wofford (7-0, 0-0 SoCon)
Location: Wofford College / Spartanburg, S.C.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – UNC Asheville scored the first run of the afternoon Sunday, but host Wofford plated two runs in the bottom of the first and forced the Bulldogs play from behind the rest of the afternoon.
THE TURNING POINT
Wofford collected 15 hits, including nine in the first three innings, along with drawing six walks and being aided by four Bulldog errors as Wofford remained undefeated early in the season.
NOTABLES
-Joe Tietjen was the only Bulldog to record two hits, including his third double of the season, as Ashville finished with just five hits. Joe Zayatz (1-2, walk) had the big hit, a three-run homer in the fifth inning, as part of his four RBI afternoon, while Pete Guy and Danny Wilson also tallied a hit apiece.
-Asheville starter Jordan Carr was saddled with the loss, allowing five runs on nine hits and two walks over the first three innings. Six Bulldog relievers combined to toss the final six innings, finishing with six total hits allowed and three runs (two earned).
-Zayatz's sacrifice fly in the top of the first inning plated the first run of the afternoon before Wofford responded with a two-run triple to take the lead in the bottom of the frame. The Bulldogs things up in the top of the third inning when Derek Smith walked and later scored on Tietjen's RBI double to left field.
-Wofford answered with three runs of their own in the bottom of the third inning on a two-run double and RBI single and then extended its lead with a RBI single in the bottom of the fourth inning.
-Asheville's fifth inning saw Guy draw a two-out walk before Tietjen singled to set up Zayatz's three-run homer over the left field wall to pull the Bulldogs to within one run at 6-5. Wofford notched a run in its half of the fifth frame, scoring on a wild pitch, before the final run of the afternoon came in the eighth inning, scoring on a Bulldog throwing error.
QUOTABLES FROM HEAD COACH SCOTT FRIEDHOLM
On the game – “We ran into a very good and very hot Wofford team right now. We need to clean up some of the simple mistakes we are making. The good thing is they are mistakes that are fixable and we just need to get back to the fundamentals.”
UP NEXT
-Following today's loss, Asheville gets set for a short trip north on Tuesday night when they take on East Tennessee State in a midweek 6:00 p.m. contest in Johnson City.
