Baseball Powers Past Wofford, 11-4, For 10th-Straight Win

Friday, April 26

Spartanburg, S.C.

5:00 PM (CT)

Samford University

31-11, 12-1

Wofford

25-18, 7-5

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Samford	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	11	12	2
Wofford College	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	14	0

Box Score (PDF)

Sonny DiChiara homered twice and drove in six runs Friday night at Wofford.

Baseball Powers Past Wofford, 11-4, For 10th-Straight Win

4.26.19 | Baseball

Box Score

BOX SCORE (PDF)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Samford baseball team ran its current win streak to 10 games with an 11-4 win at Wofford in the first game of a three-game Southern Conference series Friday night at Russell C. King Field.

With the win, Samford improves to 32-11 overall and 12-1 in Southern Conference games. This marks the second 10-game win streak of the season for Samford. The 12-1 league record marks the best start to SoCon play for Samford since joining the league for the 2009 season. Wofford falls to 25-18 overall and 7-5 in SoCon play.

FROM THE BOX SCORE

Sonny DiChiara went 2-for-6 with two home runs, including a grand slam, and a career-high six RBI to lead Samford in the win. This marks DiChiara's fourth two-homer game of the season.
Jordan Fucci also homered for Samford, going 2-for-4 with one RBI.
Ayrton Schafer and Max Pinto drove in two runs each for Samford.
Carson Cupo (4-0) earned the win on the mound for Samford, pitching 4.1 innings in relief, giving up no runs on four hits.
For Wofford, Hudson Byorick went 3-for-4 with two RBI.
Reed Massey went 3-for-5 with an RBI for the Terriers.
Austin Higginbotham (8-3) pitched 3.0 innings, giving up nine runs on seven hits to take the loss for Wofford.

SCORING SUMMARY

Samford jumped out to an early lead with three runs in the top of the first inning. DiChiara hit a two-run home run, and Fucci hit a solo homer to give the Bulldogs a 3-0 lead.
Wofford plated a run in the bottom of the first inning to cut the lead to 3-1.
In the top of the second inning, DiChiara hit a grand slam to left field to push Samford's lead to 7-1.
The Terriers came back with another run in the bottom of the second inning, making the score 7-2.
Pinto hit a two-run double in the top of the third inning to push Samford's lead to 9-2.
Wofford scored another run in the top of the fourth inning to make the score 9-3.
Samford added two runs in the top of the eighth inning on a double by Schafer to push its lead to 11-3.
Wofford added one final run in the bottom of the ninth inning to make the final score 11-4.

LOOKING AHEAD
Samford and Wofford will continue their series with a game Saturday afternoon. The contest is set for a 2 p.m. (CT) start from Russell C. King Field.