NEWBERRY - Newberry baseball team takes advantage of the four Belmont Abbey errors in their 7-4 victory. The Wolves win the series over the Crusader by going 3-0 against them in the past few days. 

Belmont Abbey got their first lead in the entire series in the top half of the first. Sean Johnson found himself standing on second after hitting the ball into the left center gap. The next batter struck out to make it two outs in the inning when Mason Dodd stepped up to the plate. Dodd found a pitch that he liked to make it go right back up the middle into the outfield. Johnson got the motion to round third and head home to score the first run of the game. 

It did not take long for the Wolves to tie the game up. A single by senior Colin Allman and walk by sophomore Zane Tarrance gave Newberry two runners with no outs. Back-to-back groundouts by the next two Wolves batters were able to get Allman to cross the plate, senior Jack Harris was credited with the RBI.

Newberry struck again in the bottom half of the second. Junior Ian Clements was able to reach base because of a fielding error by the third baseman. During the at-bat of fellow junior Dalton Lansdowne, Clements swiped second base. Eventually Lansdowne walked to put a second runner on for Newberry, which led to the double steal by Clements and Lansdowne. Allman than came up to the plate to smack the ball to right field to allow two runs to come across. After Allman stole second, Tarrance was able to connect with a pitch to drive it to left field to score another run. Not only did Tarrance get a steal to give Newberry their fifth steal of the inning, but all of the scoring happened with two outs in the inning. 

The Crusaders got one run back in the fourth when Nick Mauer came around and scored. A bunt by Patrick Taylor down the first base line, that stayed fair, loaded the bases. JuJuan Cason was up next and he hit the ball to Newberry's first baseman, who was 15 feet away from the bag, fielded the ball and get the force out at second. During the play a run for Belmont came across. 

The Wolves got that run back in the bottom half of the same inning when Lansdowne scored on a pass ball, to make it 5-2. 

Belmont Abbey got the next two runs of the game in the fifth and seventh innings. A single to the outfield by Adam Overcash got one run to score from second base. With the same situation happen but this time Matty Bapst was up to the plate. 

Before Newberry scored two more runs in the bottom half of the seventh, red-shirt junior Jonathan Elicier was called upon in the top half. The Apopka, Fla. native pitched the last three innings of the game to get his second save of the season. In those final innings he only gave up two hits and struckout two. 

Red-shirt junior Alex Sanchez was credited with the win. In his inning and two-thirds of work he allowed one run on one hit, while recording two strikeouts. 

The Wolves are back in action tomorrow evening at home against Lenoir-Rhyne. First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m.