CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jake Salpietro provided the offense and Kyle Dube made it stay as the senior slugger scored and drove in a run and the junior hurler went seven innings allowing just one run as the Stags took the first-ever meeting with Charlotte, 3-2 to open the series.

“It was a good overall team effort,” Head Coach Bill Currier said. “We had good overall team defense, Jack Gethings made six good plays, some nice diving plays too. It was just good defense from the infield and outfield and solid pitching. Those are obviously the keys to winning ball games.”

Salpietro's big hit came in the sixth inning when the cleanup hitter laced a RBI triple down the right field line which scored Kevin Radziewicz with the game's first run. Salpietro would score on a wild pitch to the very next batter made the score 2-0 in favor of the road team. That wild pitch would be an indicator of how the Stags (4-5) would score their next run when Brendan Tracy was hit by a pitch. He advanced to second on a wild pitch, went to third on a failed pick off, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Mac Crispino.

“Jake saw a couple of balls they left up and hit them where they were pitched,” Coach Currier said. “His triple was down the right field line and his double was in the gap, so he was hitting the ball hard and where he should have.”

During that time, Dube was cruising on the mound. The junior allowed just five hits during his first six shutout innings, but ran into trouble after the seventh-inning stretch. Dube walked the bases loaded with just one out and ultimately allowed a run scoring sacrifice fly to put Charlotte (6-8) on the board. With the count 3-2, Dube made his biggest pitch of the game getting Hunter Jones to foul out to Salpietro.

Dube would earn his second win of the season and now holds a team-best 1.37 ERA in his 19.2 innings.

“He's had three good outing and is getting better,” Currier said. “He actually threw better tonight than he did at North Carolina. He kept his fastball down and had control of three pitches.”

To get that second win, Ryan O'Connor would come into to attempt his first career six-out save, and after allowing a single to the 49ers hit leader Logan Sherer and a sacrifice fly to Brett Netzer, in the eighth inning, the left hander pitcher a 1-2-3 ninth for his first career save.

Salpietro had two of the five hits for the Stags with other knocks coming from Crispino, Drew Arciuolo, and Jack Gethings. Radziewicz continued showing his skill on getting on base, reached safely twice which brings his on-base percentage to .436.

Charlotte's lefty Sean Geoghegan struck out eight hatters and surrendered just two hits in his six innings of work. Netzer was the hardest out for Dube and O'Connor, going 2-for-2 with a walk and a sacrifice fly.

The two teams will conclude their three-game series with a double header tomorrow starting at 1pm.