The College of Charleston lost the second game of its baseball series against the University of North Carolina Wilmington on May 2, with a final score of 7-5 at Brooks Field.
The outcome leaves Charleston with an overall record of 21-24 and a conference mark of 11-12, while UNCW stands at 26-19 overall and 14-9 in league play. The game was decided by a four-run inning from UNCW in the sixth, which proved to be the difference.
Charleston fell behind early as UNCW scored twice in the first inning and added another run by the third. Graduate student Dylan Johnson contributed two runs batted in, including an RBI single in the sixth that drove in freshman Jake Amman. Despite two runs scoring for Charleston on a fielding error later that inning and a solo home run by redshirt senior Ethan Plyler in the seventh, they could not overcome the deficit.
Johnson also beat out an infield single with two outs to bring home Charleston’s fifth run. Graduate Kurt Rogers made his first Division I start for Charleston, pitching five innings—matching his second-longest outing at this level. The Cougars are now 27-29 all-time against UNCW and have gone 10-17 when playing as visitors.
Plyler has now recorded multiple hits in four consecutive games, going ten-for-sixteen during that stretch. Johnson collected his team-leading seventeenth multi-hit performance this season and threw out his twenty-first base runner—bringing his career total at Charleston to fifty-four.
Charleston will face UNCW again Sunday afternoon for the rubber match scheduled for 2 p.m., also at Brooks Field.
