{"id":178806,"date":"2026-03-05T04:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178806\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:17:11","slug":"ninth-inning-rally-falls-short-unc-wilmington-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178806\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth-Inning Rally Falls Short &#8211; UNC Wilmington Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Primary_2Clr_WhtBG.png\" alt=\"Jacksonville\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Jacksonville<\/p>\n<p>3\/6\/2026 | 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 06 (Fri) \/ 6:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Primary_2Clr_WhtBG.png\" alt=\"Jacksonville\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Jacksonville&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    WILMINGTON, N.C.\u00a0\u2013 East Carolina held off a ninth-inning UNCW rally to edge the Seahawks, 5-3, in college baseball action on Wednesday at Brooks Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates posted their third straight win over the Seahawks and improved to 7-5-1 while the Seahawks fell to 7-6 with the home loss.<\/p>\n<p>ECU built a 5-1 lead through eight innings, but the Seahawks scored twice in the ninth and had the tying run at the plate. The first run of the ninth came across on a bases-loaded double play, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uncwsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-nelson\/9310\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9310\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Nelson<\/a>\u00a0followed with an RBI single to narrow the deficit to 5-3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uncwsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jp-pennella\/9350\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9350\" target=\"_blank\">JP Pennella<\/a>\u00a0had two hits on the night for the Seahawks and drove in a run with an RBI single in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Four Pirates finished with two-hit games, including Grady Lenahan, who knocked in two runs. Braden Burress also had two hits and scored twice.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Webb (1-2) earned the win with four innings of one-run relief.<\/p>\n<p>UNCW starter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uncwsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/alex-sobol\/9354\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9354\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Sobol<\/a>\u00a0took the loss to slide to 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks open a three-game series at Jacksonville on Mar. 6 with a 6 p.m. start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Jacksonville 3\/6\/2026 | 6:00 PM &#13; Mar. 06 (Fri) \/ 6:00 PM&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-178806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}