Chapel Hill, N.C. —  The Le Moyne College baseball team dropped the second game of a three-game series with #8 North Carolina on Saturday afternoon at Boshamer Stadium, 12-2.

Six different players drove in runs for North Carolina, led by shortstop Jake Schaffner who had three hits, including a home run, and four runs batted in. First baseman Erik Paulsen also homered and drove in three runs. Catcher Macon Winslow had three hits and drove in one run, and outfielder Perry Hargett had two hits and one run batted in.

Sophomore right-hander Ryan Lynch, who is 60th on MLB.com's ranking of 2026 draft prospects, earned the victory for North Carolina after registering six strikeouts and allowing one run in 6.0 innings of work. 

For Le Moyne, sophomore catcher Robert Wegrzyn (North Tonawanda, N.Y./Niagara-Wheatfield)
 had three hits, including a home run, and drove in both runs for the Dolphins. Sophomore right fielder Jack Cannon (Webster, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) had two hits, and freshman second baseman Isaac Brozon (Aurora, N.Y. Southern Cayuga) added a single.
 
Redshirt freshman right-hander Mitchell Earle (Cortland, N.Y. Homer) made the start for Le Moyne, pitching 3.2 innings of work, striking out one and recording the loss. Freshman right-hander Jack Molini (Mastic, N.Y. William Floyd) pitched a scoreless 0.2 innings in relief. 
 
Cannon singled through the left side of the infield to lead off the top of the second inning and senior third baseman Adam Sullivan (Syracuse, N.Y./Marcellus) followed with a walk to give Le Moyne runners on first and second with no outs. Later in the inning, Wegrzyn singled to shallow left field to score Cannon and give the Dolphins a 1-0 lead.
 
The Tar Heels loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the second, and a sacrifice fly to center by right fielder Carter French tied the game at 1-1. 
 
North Carolina loaded the bases to begin the bottom of the fourth inning, and a sacrifice fly to right field by third baseman Christopher Nicholson put the Tar Heels in front 2-1. French followed with a walk to reload the bases, and Hargett hit an RBI single to shallow center field to make it 3-1. Schaffer then singled through the right side of the infield to score two more runs, and Paulsen hit his fifth home run of the season to score three runs and make it an 8-1 North Carolina advantage.
 
Hargett hit a one-out single through the right side of the infield in the bottom of the sixth inning, and Schaffer followed with a homer over the right field wall to make 10-1. The Tar Heels followed with two consecutive walks, and an RBI single by Winslow made it 11-1. A wild pitch later in the inning allowed Paulsen to score from third and pushed the score to 12-1.
 
Right-hander Matthew Matthijs came in to pitch the top of the seventh inning for the Tar Heels. He got the first out, but Wegrzyn followed with a home run over the left field wall for his first of the season. Matthijs retired the next two batters to secure the 12-2 victory for North Carolina.
 
Le Moyne and North Carolina will finish the series on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.