Huntingdon baseball holds off N.C. Wesleyan

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. – The Huntingdon baseball team scored three runs in the fifth inning and one in the seventh inning to edge North Carolina Wesleyan 4-3 on Sunday.

The win was the fifth straight for the Hawks (6-3, 2-0 USA South), who will wrap up their three-game series with N.C. Wesleyan (2-6, 0-2) on Monday at 11 a.m.

Sophomore Gunnar Peters led Huntingdon with a home run two RBIs, two runs and a stolen base on a 2-for-5 day. Landon Sessions had two hits and a run, Trammell DeJarnett and Victor Taylor each had one RBI and Jordan Freeman scored once.

N.C. Wesleyan took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning before Huntingdon answered in the fifth. Peters singled to score Freeman before Sessions scored on a sacrifice fly by DeJarnett. Peters scored on a Taylor single to give Huntingdon a 3-2 lead.

In the seventh inning, Peters hit the Hawks' first home run of the season to make it 4-2. The Battling Bishops cut it to 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh before Huntingdon pitchers Dalton Dalrymple and Neil Lawler closed out the game.

Jackson Cruce (2-0) picked up the win, allowing six hits, two walks and two earned runs in 5 1/3 innings. Dalrymple pitched 3 1/3 innings, striking out four and allowing three hits and one run before Lawler picked up his second save of the season.