The Oglethorpe baseball team hung with the visiting Greensboro Pride for much of the game on the final day of the Rawlings Southern Classic Sunday afternoon at Anderson Field. However, Greensboro pulled away late with 15 runs over the final four innings, including six in the ninth, en route to a 19-4 victory. The defeat dropped the Stormy Petrels to 1-4 on the young season.

The Pride scratched across a run in the top of the first, but the Petrels answered back in the second inning with a solo home run off the bat of junior catcher Alec Babb.

Greensboro scored three off of junior right-hander Devlin Basinger in the third to put the visitors on top 4-1. Basinger wound up with the loss, allowing three earned runs on just one hit and one walk over 2 2/3 innings. He hit six Greensboro batters with pitches, though. 

Oglethorpe responded with an RBI single from freshman center fielder Carter Guarino in the fifth, chasing home sophomore shortstop Billy Finch, who tripled with one out in the frame. After the visitors again scored three runs in the sixth, the Petrels bounced back with an RBI infield single from sophomore third baseman Andrew Noack and a sacrifice fly from Finch to make it 7-4 through six innings. Greensboro scored at least three runs in each of the final four innings, though, not giving Oglethorpe much of a chance to mount a comeback.

Noack served as the only Petrel with multiple hits, going 2-for-3 with an RBI on the afternoon.

Oglethorpe pitchers struggled with their control throughout the afternoon, issuing 14 walks and nine hit batsmen for a total of 23 free passes. Despite allowing Greensboro to score 19 runs, the Petrels still stranded 18 Pride baserunners over the course of the game.

The Petrels return to action Tuesday night when they travel just northeast to Demorest for their first road game of the season. They're scheduled to take on in-state opponent Piedmont at 7 p.m.