BELMONT, N.C. – The Belmont Abbey baseball team walked off against No. 7 Catawba to stay unbeaten on the year. Ben Gobbel lifted a sac fly into center that scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Crusaders. The Abbey stays undefeated at 5-0 and Catawba moves to 4-2 on the year.
Highlights

• Mason Dodd and Sean Johnson both collected two hits on the game.
• Richard DeLaCruz hit his first homer of the year in the second inning.
• Johnson homered in the sixth inning to bring The Abbey within one at the time.
• Ben Ferguson delivered a game-tying single in the eighth.
• Gobbel lifted a bases-loaded one-out fly ball to center to score Patrick Taylor.
• Luke Hahn started on the mound for Belmont Abbey tossing 4.1 innings allowing two runs on five hits.
• Avery Short picked up his first win of the year in his relief appearance throwing two innings and only allowing one hit with a strikeout.

Up Next
The Crusaders travel to Barton to play a Conference Carolinas series starting Thursday.