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Winston-Salem 9, Kutztown 0 (HTML Box Score)
 
Winston-Salem 3, Kutztown 2 (HTML Box Score)
 
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Kutztown University baseball team dropped a pair of games to Winston-Salem State University on Wednesday afternoon in a doubleheader at BB&T Ballpark. KU lost a 9-0 decision in game one and a 3-2 final on a walkoff in the nightcap.
 
The Golden Bears (7-3) managed just three hits in the opener off Ram starting pitcher Wesley Helsabeck, and they all came in different innings. Winston-Salem took a 1-0 lead in the first inning off a sacrifice fly, and held the one-run lead for four innings. It plated six runs in the fifth including a pair of home runs, and finished with two runs in the bottom of the sixth to close the scoring in the opener.
 
James Rossi (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) was tabbed with the loss by allowing the first-inning run and nothing more in his three innings of work. He had three strikeouts with no walks. Kutztown's bullpen allowed the remaining eight runs over the fifth and sixth innings.
 
The second game of the twinbill played far different from the first. Kutztown took advantage of two Winston-Salem errors in the fourth inning to take a 1-0 lead. Following a KU pitching change, the Rams answered to take a 2-1 lead in the following half-inning. An inning-opening double followed by a groundout put a runner on third with one out. A passed ball scored the runner to tie the game.
 
Later in the inning, Winston-Salem worked a walk and a single to put runners on the corners with one out. A sacrifice fly brought in the runner a give it a 2-1 lead through five.
 
Senior Ricky Gorrell (Royersford, PA/Spring-Ford) hit a RBI single in the sixth, one of his team-leading two hits of the game, to tie the game at 2-2 to take the game to the bottom of the seventh.
 
The Rams loaded the bases with no outs and no hits to start the inning. It walked to open the inning, had a runner reach on an infield error, and intentionally walked a batter to enact a potential force play at home plate. Unfortunately for the Golden Bears, following a pitching change to put their best closer in the game, a RBI single to right field by Gavin Culler ended the game and the doubleheader.
 
Senior left-hander Colin Holmes (Ewing, NJ/Ewing) started the second game for Kutztown and did not allow a run through three innings of work. Brandon Shimo (Jermyn, PA/Lakeland (Lackawanna)) pitched a solid inning of relief as well for KU.
 
The Golden Bears close out spring break with a doubleheader on Thursday, March 20 at Virginia State beginning at 1 p.m.