UNCG completes sweep

Michael Goss and Caleb Webster each went 3-for-4 to power UNC Greensboro to a 9-3 win over Furman Sunday giving the Spartans a sweep of the series. It's the eighth consecutive loss for the Paladins, who fell to 11-19 overall and 1-8 in the Southern Conference.
Landon Kay's third home run gave Furman an early 1-0 lead before UNCG came back with a four-run fourth, highlighted by run-scoring hits from Goss and Webster and a two-run home run by Tripp Shelton.
Sky Overton and Sims Griffith had back-to-back RBI-singles in the sixth to cut the lead to 4-3, but the Spartans (21-10, 7-2) answered with another four-spot in the bottom of the inning. Goss and Webster had RBI-triples and Shelton followed with a sac fly.
Goss, Webster and Shelton, UNCG's 4-5-6 hitters, accounted for all nine RBIs and seven of the Spartans' 11 hits.
Matthew Quarles (3-2) allowed eight runs on nine hits in 5 1/3 innings to take the loss. He had no walks and four strikeouts.
Saturday: UNCG 7, Furman 6, 11 inn.
Furman has had plenty of heartbreaking losses during its skid, including Saturday when the Paladins fell to 0-3 in extra innings this season. In each of the three games Furman has scored in the ninth and/or led in extra innings.
On Saturday, the game was tied 5-5 after six innings. Despite the Paladins getting leadoff doubles in the seventh and ninth innings, there was no more scoring until the 11th.
After Furman's Carter Grote singled leading off the 11th, he went to second on a sac bunt, took third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch.
The lead was short-lived as UNCG No. 9 hitter Ryne Sigmon sent Heath Hawkins' first pitch of the bottom of the inning over the rightfield fence for the lone homer of the game. Two singles and a hit batter loaded the bases before Webster ended the game with a walk-off sac fly.
Jabari Richards had three hits, while Grote had two hits, two RBIs and two runs to lead the Paladins.
Leadoff man Austin Embler had four hits and four runs scored for the Spartans.
Hawkins (2-3) took the loss despite pitching well in relief of Furman starter Grant Schuermann. Hawkins allowed two runs on four hits in four innings. He had one walk and four strikeouts. Schuermann gave up five runs, four earned, on 10 hits in six innings.
The Paladins play their first midweek home game since March 8 when USC Upstate visits Latham Stadium for a 6 p.m. game Tuesday. Furman defeated the Spartans 7-4 in Spartanburg earlier this season.