{"id":211024,"date":"2026-03-29T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:40:07","slug":"charlotte-takes-series-from-south-florida-with-10-3-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211024\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Takes Series from South Florida with 10-3 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE \u2013\u00a0Adam Stanton<\/a> was lights-out in eight innings of shutout relief for Charlotte Baseball as his offense put up 10 runs on 16 hits in a 10-3 win over South Florida in the rubber match between the two sides on Sunday afternoon (March 29) at Hayes Stadium.
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\nAfter splitting the first two games of the weekend, Charlotte’s (18-10, 3-3 American) win gives the Niners their first conference series victory of the season and the fourth weekend series win overall. It was also the 199th win of head coach Robert Woodard<\/a>‘s career, putting him one victory away from becoming the fastest coach to 200 wins in program history and the third to do so, joining Gary Robinson and Loren Hibbs.
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\nStanton entered in the second inning and proceeded to hold South Florida (22-6, 3-3 American) to just four hits and no runs the rest of the way while his offense rewarded him with seven more runs and 15 more knocks for a total of 16 hits in the game \u2013 the third-most the 49ers have had in a game all season and the fifth time recording at least 15 this year.
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\nStanton logged four strikeouts in his first win of the season and only issued one free pass on a hit batter to go with his four hits and no walks in his eight shutout innings of dominance. Chayse Oxborrow<\/a> started the game on the bump for the 49ers and was charged with all three runs from 1.0 inning of work. He got through the first inning and faced the first batter of the second before Stanton entered from the bullpen.
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\n“Huge series win for our club,” Woodard said. “We talked yesterday about how, even though the result wasn’t there, I was extremely proud of the resilience, the toughness, the poise, and the composure our guys showed. Everybody who watched the game yesterday saw us come back into it and make a game of it and put some pressure on late. I think that mindset carried into today. It certainly felt like it pregame with the energy of the guys bouncing around.”
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\nDylan Koontz<\/a> had nearly 20% of the hits himself as he led the team with three hits in the game, one of seven 49ers with multiple knocks, as all but one Charlotte batter recorded a hit in the win. Koontz extended his hitting streak to eight straight games with his three singles and has now recorded multiple hits in six straight games and seven of the eight during his streak.
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\nCody Gunderson<\/a> was one of the 49ers with two hits in the game, including hitting his sixth home run of the season to be the only player to leave the yard. Alec DeMartino<\/a> doubled for his only hit while Spencer Nolan<\/a> had a two-bagger to go with a single. Todd Hudson<\/a>, Robert Nedry<\/a>, Cale Stricklin<\/a>, and Johnny Sutryk<\/a> all tallied a pair of singles in the win as well.
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\nHudson and Nedry both brought home a pair with one of their singles to be the only 49ers with multiple RBIs in the game. Koontz and DeMartino both drove in runs on free passes to first, with Koontz getting hit and DeMartino walking \u2013 both in the first inning. Stricklin scored a run on a sacrifice fly and Adrian Jimenez<\/a> contributed to the scoresheet with an RBI-groundout.
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED
\nSouth Florida opened the scoring in the first inning for the second game in a row, bringing around a pair of runs on two hits to start things out. The Bulls had a chance to add more after putting two in scoring position but the Niners stranded them both to limit the damage.
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\nCharlotte didn’t trail for long, taking the lead with a three-spot in the home half of the opener. Nolan led CLT’s offense off with a single to start the frame, the only hit of the inning for the Green and White. A walk and a hit batter followed to load them up, setting up a second consecutive HBP, this time on Koontz, to drive in the first run of the game for the 49ers. DeMartino then drew a four-pitch walk with the bases still juiced to level the score before Stricklin lined out to center for a go-ahead sacrifice fly.
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\nSouth Florida tied it up in the second, but CLT countered in the bottom of the inning with a run of its own to retake the lead and never looked back as Stanton started his run on the bump. Sutryk led the frame off with a single and advanced into scoring position on a balk from the USF pitcher. A groundout to the right side moved Sutryk 90 feet closer, setting up an RBI-single from Hudson to put the Niners back in front.
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\nThe Niners tacked on an insurance run in the fourth, bringing it home on a wild pitch. Nolan put one into the right-field corner for a double with one out before taking both third and home on wild offerings from the South Florida arm.
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\nAnother run came home for the Green and White in the fifth when Nedry scored after reaching on a lead-off single. He went from first to third on a beautifully executed hit-and-run \u2013 Charlotte’s second of the day \u2013 and then came home on a groundout up the middle from Jimenez.
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\nThe floodgates opened for the Niners in the sixth, bringing around three runs on six hits to extend the lead to six, 9-3, while sending eight batters to the plate. It started out with a flyout to left field but the next five batters all reached base safely to get the runs across.
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\nGunderson sparked the crooked number with a solo homer right after the first out before Koontz racked up his third consecutive single and DeMartino stretched a single into a double to put a pair in scoring position. Both came home when Nedry pulled one through the right side of the infield to get the Niners to nine. Nedry moved up to third on a single from Stricklin, but was thrown out at the plate on a squeeze attempt with Jimenez at the dish. Stricklin took second on the out and he was also retired at the plate when he was trying to score on a single to left by Sutryk.
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\nCharlotte tacked on one more before the day was done, with Nolan coming home to push the Niners into double digits. Nolan worked a five-pitch walk to start the inning and moved into scoring position after stealing second. Hudson was the next batter and worked the count full before winning the battle with a single to left-center that scored Nolan from second.
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\nStanton was lights out in relief for Charlotte during the offense’s run on the other side after entering in the second. He allowed an inherited runner in the second to score but then settled in nicely, tossing eight shutout innings to keep the Bulls at just three runs. He had some nice defensive play behind him as well, and at one point retired 10 consecutive batters, from the third to the sixth. Recording two 1-2-3 frames in that stretch of 10 straight outs, Stanton closed the contest the same way with two perfect innings to finish it out with nine consecutive batters retired to earn the win.
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\nUP NEXT
\nCharlotte doesn’t have a midweek game this week and is next in action at East Carolina, starting on Thursday (April 2) at 6 p.m.
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