Mount Olive, N.C. — The 5th-ranked Catawba College baseball team saw its eight-game win streak snapped on Tuesday, falling at Mount Olive in midweek non-conference action.

TEAM STATISTICS

- Both teams recorded nine hits

- Mount Olive hit two of three homers and four of five extra-base hits

- The Trojans committed three of four errors in the contest

- UMO had the lone stolen base in the game

- Mount Olive's pitchers allowed three earned runs on nine hits and one walk, striking out nine; Catawba's staff allowed 10 runs on nine hits and five walks, striking out five

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

- Logan Dyer was 3-for-4 with a run scored

- Malachi Cloud hit his first Catawba home run

- Nathan Chrismon singled, drove in a run and scored

- Marshal Faw threw two scoreless, striking out two in his collegiate debut

HOW IT HAPPENED

SECOND INNING

- Two walks and an RBI single up the middle put the first run on the board for Mount Olive

THIRD INNING

- A three-run homered pushed the lead to four for the Trojans

- A bases-loaded hit-by-pitch and a single that moved everyone up 90 feet made it 6-0

- An RBI groundout gave UMO a 7-0 lead through three innings

FOURTH INNING

- A two-out solo homer extended Mount Olive's lead to 8-0

FIFTH INNING

- Jake Dunlap singled to lead off the fifth

- Hunter Atkins two-out RBI single put Catawba on the board in the fifth

- The Trojans answered with a leadoff double followed by a single to return the lead to eight runs

SIXTH INNING

- UMO scored its tenth of the run of the game on a two-out base hit

EIGHTH INNING

- Chrismon drove in a run and reached on an error

- Cloud's two-run homer – the first as a Catawba Indian –trimmed UMO's lead to 10-4

UP NEXT

- Catawba turns its attention to top 10-ranked Lenoir-Rhyne in South Atlantic Conference play this weekend in a matchup of the 2025 Southeast Region finalists