Box Score GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Guilford College held off Berry College, 10-9, at McBane Field on Saturday. With the win, the Quakers took the rubber match of the three-game series.
Berry dropped to 1-2 and Guilford improved to 3-3.
After getting 24 hits in two seven-inning games on Friday, the Vikings responded with 14 more on Saturday. Austin Neely and Kevin Scott both collected three hits for BC. Neely was 3-5 with a run and Scott hit 3-5 with a run and one RBI. TC Boyd, Zach Farmer and freshman Sam Joyce all had two hits in the contest.
As with every game this year, Berry got off to a hot start. The Vikes tallied two runs in the first inning and two more in the third to take a 4-0 advantage. Guilford, however, rebounded by plating five runs in the fourth frame to take the lead.
The visitors trailed 10-7 heading to the ninth inning. Pinch-runner McTier Mosley was forced home on a hit-by-pitch. McGill then hit into a double play but Joyce scored to cut the lead to 10-9. With tying run in Dusty Tyson at third base, Farmer flied out to right field to end the game.
Reliever Braxton Teal took the loss for BC.
Michael Whited went 2-5 with a home run and 5 RBI to pace Guilford hitters.
The Vikings host Emory & Henry on Friday.