SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The baseball team (1-6) scored a pair of first inning runs, but Wofford College’s (12-3) offense continued its early-season dominance in a 9-3 victory, Sunday, at Russell C. King Field. Four Purple Eagles had multiple hits in the loss.

Juniors Andrew Macdonald (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) and Harrison Harber (Kanata, Ont.) started the Niagara offense with back-to-back one-out singles in the first inning. First baseman Tim Alberts (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) connected on a two-run double to give the Purple Eagles a 2-0 lead while extending his hitting streak to 29 games. Harber finished the game 3-for-3 with a double and a run scored.

The Terriers scored a run in six of the eight innings, including five straight to take a 5-2 lead. Sophomore Dennis Chachko (Oceanport, N.J.) took the loss to fall to 0-2, allowing five runs, four earned, on six hits while walking three in 3.1 innings.

Macdonald inched the Purple Eagles closer with a solo hoe run in the fifth inning, making the score 5-3, but that is as close as Niagara would get. Alberts and senior catcher James Nikolaides (Dedham, Mass.) finished with two hits apiece, as Nikolaides smacked a pair of doubles in the loss.

The Purple Eagles are back in action with a road doubleheader at West Virginia, March 6, with game one scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.