Game Two Box Score
Game Three Box Score
ELON, N.C. -- Between the completion of Saturday's suspended game and Sunday's regularly slated series finale against the Wofford Terriers, Elon's
Ryan Kinsella drove in six runs and collected four hits as he helped the Phoenix to 1-0 and 8-4 victories to complete a three-game league sweep.
Elon now sits at 22-12 overall and is 12-3 in Southern Conference play while Wofford fell to 14-19, 2-10.
Elon and Wofford picked up the second game of the series at 1 p.m. on Sunday after the scoreless contest had been suspended heading to the last of the fifth inning the previous day.
The game remained scoreless until Kinsella belted the first pitch he saw with one away in the bottom of the ninth for a no-doubt homer to right, his third home run of the season. It marked the second consecutive walk-off win for the Phoenix who has now won eight times in its final at bat of a game.
John Brebbia (7-0) was the winning pitcher for the second straight game, coming on in relief of
Ken Ferrer who threw five scoreless innings on Saturday. Brebbia allowed one hit while hurling four frames.
The two-hitter tossed by the Phoenix pitchers was the first for the team since two-hitting Columbia in an 8-0 victory on March 5, 2005.
Wofford's Tom Dolinak (2-3) was charged with the loss after giving up one run in 4.1 innings of work. Starter Brandon Yarusi did not allow a run over four innings on Saturday.
Wofford manufactured a run in the first inning of the final game of the series. James Foster led off with a single to right and went to second on a ground out. After a fly ball to deep center advanced Foster to third, Konstantine Diamaduros singled to left to plate Foster.
Elon loaded the bases in the bottom half of the inning as
Jake Luce walked ahead of singles from
Eric Serra and
Niko Fraser. The Phoenix took a 2-1 lead when Kinsella lined a single up the middle to drive home both Luce and Serra. On the throw to third, Kinsella took second.
Sebastian Gomez picked up a RBI on a ground out that scored Fraser with the third Elon run. With Kinsella on third,
Alex Swim lined a single to center to make it a 4-1 game.
The Terrier third began with an Alex Lee single and a walk to Foster. After a sac bunt, Mac Doyle drove home Lee with an infield single. Wofford closed its deficit to 4-3 on a Diamaduros sacrifice fly.
Wofford tied the game at four in the fifth inning when Lee led off with a homer over the wall in left. It was his first of the year. With two away, Doyle tripled to center. After Diamaduros and Josh McKinney walked to load the bases, David Roney bounced out to first to end the inning.
The Phoenix answered with three runs in the bottom half to take a 7-4 lead. Serra began the rally with a walk and moved to second on a sac bunt.
Neal Pritchard's infield single put runners on the corners before Kinsella plated both runners with a triple into the right field corner. A Gomez single then delivered Kinsella with the third Elon tally of the frame.
Kinsella recorded his fifth RBI of the game when he followed a Pritchard two-out single with a double to left-center that increased Elon's edge to 8-4 in the bottom of the sixth.
David Whitehead (3-0) won after tossing 2.1 innings in relief of starter
Jared Kernodle. Whitehead did not allow a run or a hit while fanning two. Kernodle lasted 4.2 innings, surrendering all four Terrier runs on seven hits.
Greg Amorosso and
Mitch Conner kept Wofford off the board over the final two frames.
Wofford's Alex Wilson (0-1) took the loss after he was charged with five runs on six hits in just four innings of work.
Kinsella put up a combined 4-for-9 effort, driving in six runs (including a career-best five in the finale). In the final game, the freshman finished a homer shy of hitting for the cycle.
Elon will be off until it hosts College of Charleston on Friday night at 6:30 p.m. in the first game of another SoCon series.
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