Box Score HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Senior right fielder Jacob LeBron becomes the tenth Newberry baseball player in program history to get his 200^th career hit as the Wolves run away from Wingate with a 18-6 score Friday afternoon at Tom J. New Field on the campus of Coker University.
 
The Wolves bats made their mark as they had a season high 18 runs on 18 hits including five players with multiple hits on the afternoon.
 
Jacob LeBron went 4-6 with four RBIs including his 200^th career hit which happened in the third inning as he singled to right field with one out in the inning.
 
Junior infielder Jomar Lugo had a career-high six RBIs on the afternoon as he would connect with his first career home run with a grand slam in the third inning to give the Wolves a 6-0 lead in the top of the third.
 
Matias Marchesini would get his fourth win of the season as he would go five and two third innings with two strikeouts.
 
The Wolves would score four runs in the third, sixth, eighth, and ninth innings. The four run third inning would be from the Lugo grand slam.
 
In the sixth inning, Rhett Jolly would get the scoring started with a one out RBI single driving in Lugo to make it 7-3. Two batters later, LeBron would get his third single of the day, this one driving in two to make it 9-3. Kade Faircloth would drive in the fourth run in the sixth as he would take a single the other way to give the Wolves a 10-3 lead.
 
After the Bulldogs would bring the Wolves lead to four, Newberry would respond with eight more insurance runs in the eighth and ninth innings to run away.
 
In the eighth, Jolly and Donovan Ford would start the inning with back-to-back singles. Ford's single extended his hitting streak to 31 games. The Wolves would score the first run on an errant throw by the Bulldogs' catcher that would score Jolly and extend the Wolves' lead to 11-6. On that same at-bat, LeBron would get his third RBI of the day hitting his third single to centerfield to make it 12-6. Three batters later, Lugo would get his fifth and sixth RBIs as he would rip a two-run double to make it 14-6.
 
In the top of the ninth, the Wolves would add four more runs starting with a RBI groundout from LeBron to give him his fourth RBI of the day and a 15-6 lead. On the next at-bat, Henry Gibson would drive in two runs with a single to make it 17-6. The Wolves' final run would be scored from a Luke Compton RBI single to make it 18-6.
 
Up Next
With the win, the Wolves will play at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning against the winner of the seventh seeded Carson-Newman, and the host and two seed of Coker.