SWARTHMORE, Pa. – One bad inning was all it took for the Ursinus College baseball team to fall behind for good in the first leg of a Centennial Conference doubleheader with Swarthmore, which used a four-run second-inning to supply sufficient cushion for a 5-2 victory on Wednesday afternoon.

Junior Alex Campbell continued a torrid stretch of hitting with a double and two RBI for Ursinus (16-20, 2-13), which mustered only two hits after the third inning against Swarthmore starter Charles Groppe. The rookie right-hander went the distance for the Garnet (21-16, 5-10), allowing two runs on six hits with a pair of walks and five strikeouts.

Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the second, Swarthmore put its first six hitters on base, half of them via walks and another by way of an error, to take a 3-1 lead and force sophomore Pierce Greenleaf into early action out of the bullpen. With the bases loaded and no outs, Greenleaf allowed only an infield single and cruised from there, working seven masterful relief innings. The right-hander surrendered just one run – on a wild pitch in the sixth – and struck out six, scattering five hits. But outside of Campbell, the Bears could get little going at the plate.

Campbell started the scoring with an RBI double in the first, and his sacrifice fly cut the Garnet's lead to 4-2 in the third. Groppe shut Ursinus down from there, conceding only singles to junior CJ Diana in the fourth and junior Jake Banks in the seventh.

Campbell is 11-for-25 (.440) over his last six games, upping his batting average to .341, tied for the team lead with senior Chris Jablonski, who finished 1-for-4 with a run.

Freshman David Drea (2-2) took the loss; he allowed four runs (three earned) on three hits with three walks in one-plus innings.

Diana went 2-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base, and junior Vincent Terry doubled and scored for Ursinus, which was burned by the back end of the Garnet lineup. Steven Matos-Torres, Jackson Roberts, and Cal Barnette-Mayotte – Swarthmore's 7-8-9 hitters – were a combined 6-for-11 with three runs scored and two RBI. Roberts went 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI, while Barnette-Mayotte finished 2-for-3 with an RBI single in the second.

The Bears and Garnet will complete their twin bill at Thomas Field on Friday, April 29, the final home game of the season. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m.