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11
East Tennessee St. ETSU 15-20
16
Winner UNCW UNCW 23-9
East Tennessee St. ETSU
15-20
11
Final
16
UNCW UNCW
23-9
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
East Tennessee St. ETSU 2 1 1 5 0 0 2 0 0 11 13 0
UNCW UNCW 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 9 X 16 16 2

W: Gesell, Jared (1-1) L: Peyton Taylor (3-4)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Tom Riordan

Stupienski Homers Three Times As UNCW Rallies For Sweep


WILMINGTON, North Carolina – Gavin Stupienski belted three home runs, including a grand slam in a nine-run eighth inning, to spur UNCW to a sweep of East Tennessee State with a come-from-behind 16-11 win on Sunday at Brooks Field.

UNCW ran its record to 23-9 with its eighth consecutive win, a season-high, and 18-2 at Brooks Field. The Buccaneers, who dropped their seventh straight, dipped to 15-20 overall and 3-7 on the road.

Stupienski became the first Seahawk to homer three times in one game since 2008 when Daniel Hargrave slammed three at Hofstra in 2008. His seven runs batted in were a career-high and the most since Mark Carver plated seven at William & Mary in 2007. Kennard McDowell added three hits and scored twice while Steven Linkous and Daniel Stack had two-hit games. Stack belted his sixth homer of the season in that nine-run eighth inning.

Closer Jared Gesell (1-1) earned the win in relief, striking out three and scattering two hits over 2.2 innings.

ETSU was led by Jeremy Taylor's four hits and Trey York added three hits, including a three-run home run. Also homering was Blake Rowlett who belted his fourth round tripper of the season in the fourth inning.

Taking the loss for ETSU was Peyton Taylor (3-4) who was roughed up for three runs on four hits in 2/3 of an inning.

Up next: The Seahawks host Campbell on Apr. 19 at 6 p.m.

Home runs: ETSU – York (off Barnes in the fourth inning, one on, none out), Rowlett (off Barnes in the fourth inning, two on, one out); UNCW – Stupienski (off Gonzalez in the first inning, one on, one out | off Simpler in the second inning, one out, none on | off Taylor in the eighth inning, three on, one out), Mims (off Gonzalez in the second inning, one on, one out), Stack (off Cate in the eighth, one on, two out)

How it happened: UNCW sent 14 hitters to the plate in the eighth inning and scored nine runs on 10 hits. With the score 11-8 ETSU, Stupienski hit a grand slam to left field to give UNCW a 12-11 lead.

Inside the box score: UNCW's nine runs in the eighth was the second time this weekend it put up nine runs in an inning … UNCW hit .615 (8-13) with RISP … Seahawk pitchers held ETSU to two hits in 13 at bats with two outs … UNCW had just one hit from the third through the seventh innings and still finished with 16 hits.

Notes: The Seahawks hit nine home runs and slugged .792 in the three-game series … Brian Mims and Steven Linkous both scored eight runs over the weekend … With nine home runs, UNCW tied its season-high against Iona earlier this season … The Seahawks have now homered in eight straight games … Kennard McDowell went 7-for-15 and scored seven runs this weekend … After hitting .464 this weekend, UNCW is lifted its batting average to .320 on the season … UNCW now leads the all-time series with ETSU, 5-1 … UNCW is 16-1 when scoring 10+ runs.
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