The Brevard College baseball team (3-0) used an offensive explosion to surge past JWU Charlotte (0-3), 14-4 in a run-ruled seven-inning contest on Sunday afternoon at Gil Coan Field.
The Tornados scored 14 runs on 16 hits, totaling their most single-game hits since Feb. 17, 2025, at Guilford. BC scored multiple runs in the second, fifth, and sixth innings – including a five-run fifth and a four-run sixth. Brevard drew seven walks, recorded 11 RBI, drilled seven extra-base hits, and stole five bases in the all-around team victory.
The win gives Brevard its third 3-0 start to a season in the last five years. All told, the Tornados outscored JWU 39-12 over the weekend.
Making just his third collegiate start, sophomore first baseman Lucas Woodard broke out with a 4-for-5 performance at the dish, notching two doubles, an inside-the-park home run, four RBI, and two runs scored.
Tyson Hinkle and Moe Love each went 3-for-4 at the plate, with Hinkle scoring twice, registering an RBI, and legging out a triple. Love drilled his first collegiate homer and added three RBI in his first college start. Nico Bartolotti and Gavin Grant also recorded multiple hits in the winning effort.
Kaden Tuten took the mound to start for the Tornados, pitching three innings, allowing just three hits without an earned run and a strikeout. Senior right-handed pitcher Andy Fahringer (1-0) made his season debut with a three-inning performance, striking out a batter with just one earned run allowed. Colin Weathers also made his 2026 debut with a scoreless frame with two strikeouts.
Woodard got the scoring underway for the Tornados, hustling around the bases for his first collegiate home run. JWU took a 2-1 lead in the top of the third with a two-run frame, but a Woodard RBI double and Bartolotti RBI single gave Brevard the lead back.
Two runs in the top of the fourth briefly gave the Wildcats the lead back, but BC responded with 11 unanswered runs over the final four innings to clinch the series sweep.
BC continues its 10-game homestand with a midweek bout against Guilford on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. at Gil Coan Field.
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