Cary, N.C. — The seventh-ranked and third-seeded Catawba College baseball team racked up 20 hits in its win over 17th-ranked and seventh-seeded Bentley in an elimination game on Monday, setting Catawba's new single-season wins record with its 48th win on the season.

TEAM STATISTICS

- Catawba out-hit Bentley 20-9

- The Catawba Indians hit the lone homer and six of nine extra-base hits

- Both teams committed an error

- The Falcons left 10 runners on base; Catawba stranded 12

- Catawba recorded all seven stolen bases

- The Catawba Indian pitchers allowed six earned runs on nine hits and six walks; Bentley's staff allowed 15 runs on 20 hits and six walks, striking out three

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

- Malachi Cloud was 3-for-5 with a homer, two doubles, three RBI, two stolen bases and three runs scored

- Hunter Atkins went 3-for-6 with two RBI and three runs scored

- Ty Hubbard was a homer shy of the cycle with four RBI and a run scored

- Sam Hunter had a four-hit day with a double and an RBI and two runs scored

- Seth Sharpe earned the win with two scoreless innings of relief with one hit allowed

- Joe Burleyson and Kaden Neuman added scoreless innings of relief

HOW IT HAPPENED

FIRST INNING

- Two walks and a hit-by-pitch loaded the bases for Bentley with one out

- An RBI groundout scored the game's first run for the Falcons

SECOND INNING

- Nathan Chrismon was hit by a pitch and stole second

- Hubbard ripped an RBI triple down the right field line to score Chrismon

- Cloud followed with an RBI double to right-center to take the lead

- Cloud stole third, allowing Logan Dyer's RBI groundout to score another run with Catawba leading 3-1

- A leadoff walk, a bunt and a single scored a run to cut the deficit to a run

THIRD INNING

- Hunter singled and stole second to lead off the third

- Chrismon's safety squeeze bunt scored him from third

- Hubbard slapped a double down the right-field line to add to Catawba's lead, up 5-2

FOURTH INNING

- Cloud led off the fourth inning with a solo homer to right field to extend the lead to four

- Tommy Bolton's RBI double cut Catawba's deficit to 6-3

- Curt Heath followed with a two-run double of his own to get within a run

- Jared Berardino tied the game at 6 with a single up the middle

SIXTH INNING

- Cloud walked, stole second and reached third on an error to lead off the sixth

- Two walks loaded the bases with nobody out in the sixth

- Hunter's sac fly scored the go-ahead run from third

- Atkins followed with a two-run single up the middle to make it 9-6

- Chrismon laced a single to left field to score another run, leading 10-6

SEVENTH INNING

- The leadoff runner for Bentley in the seventh reached on a strikeout and a passed ball

- After a two-out walk and a wild pitch moved the runners up to scoring position, Heath scored two on a single through the right side, cutting the deficit to 10-8

EIGHTH INNING

- Jack Cuba pulled through with a pinch-hit RBI base hit with two outs to add insurance

- Cloud's opposite-field double scored Cuba to make it 12-8

NINTH INNING

- Three straight singles loaded the bases with nobody out in the top of the ninth

- Hubbard shot a single through the right side to score two runs

- Cameron Burleyson scored another run on a safety squeeze to score Catawba's 15th run

UP NEXT

- Catawba faces Point Loma in a rematch of the opening game of the tournament at 6 p.m. on Tuesday