HARTSVILLE – A day after faltering for the first time in South Atlantic Conference play, Newberry rebounded with a come-from-behind 8-6 win and a lopsided 15-1 victory to take a weekend series from Coker.
 
Saturday's doubleheader was punctuated by a virtuoso pitching performance from freshman Josh Bookbinder. The Easley native was nearly untouchable in Newberry's (19-6, 5-1 SAC) Game 2 dismantling of the Cobras (10-10-1, 5-4 SAC). He went the distance in the seven-inning win, allowing a run on just two hits.
 
The Cobras managed only a solo home run in the second and a single to left field in the fifth. Bookbinder gave up three walks but did not allow a runner past first base save for the home run. His defense backed him up with three double plays. The efficient outing took Bookbinder just 74 pitches, with only one three-ball count outside the three bases on balls he allowed.
 
Newberry's bats wasted no time heating up in the second game, scoring seven times in the first two innings before hanging six runs on the Cobras in the fourth. Tyler White finished a triply shy of the cycle in an incredible outing, going 4-for-4 with two doubles, a home run, three runs scored, a walk, and five RBI's. Seven of the nine Newberry starters recorded at least one hit.
 
The Wolves carried significant momentum with them into the second game after erasing a 5-1 deficit in the first contest. Newberry trailed by four runs in the sixth and 6-4 in the eighth but scored two runs in each of the final two innings for the 8-6 victory.
 
Newberry scored three runs on three hits, getting a sacrifice fly from Colin Allman and run-scoring singles from Kenny Bergmann and Danton Hyman, in a critical fifth-inning rally. Reliever Griffin Hollifield, a 2017 all-SAC selection, induced a flyout to strand a pair and end the threat.
 
Hollifield worked a 1-2-3 seventh inning but hit Peyton Spangler to begin the eighth. A one-out Bergmann single and perfectly-placed bunt from Dalton Lansdowne pulled Newberry within a run. Two batters later, Zane Tarrance grounded a single up the middle to tie the game. Aidan Baur then hit a sizzling line drive that was speared by the second baseman to save at least one run.
 
Tyler Fuhr worked around a leadoff single to strand a runner at third in the eighth. Spangler came to bat with one out and a runner on third and ripped his first-career triple to give Newberry the lead. Three pitches later, Chase Barbary doubled the advantage with a single to give Fuhr a two-run cushion.
 
Fuhr allowed a hit and a walk in the ninth but stranded two to deliver the victory to the Wolves. He earned the win in relief, scattering three hits and an unearned run over 4.1 innings.
 
Newberry returns to action Tuesday afternoon when the Wolves travel to Augusta University for a 4:00 p.m. first pitch.