Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CHARLOTTE, N.C.- William & Mary dropped both games of a season opening doubleheader Saturday afternoon in Charlotte. The Tribe were bested 7-1 and 4-0 by the 49ers but will look to close the series out with a win tomorrow afternoon as the teams meet for a 1:00 p.m. finale. 
 
In game one the Tribe threatened in the first, getting two runners on base but were unable to take advantage stranding the pair. In the bottom half the Niners jumped on W&M as David McCabe's two-run homer gave Charlotte the 2-0 lead. 
 
After the teams traded scoreless second innings, David Hogarth walked to open the Tribe's half of the third. Ben Williamson followed with a double that one-hopped the wall in right center. With runners on second and third, Jack Cone would send a deep sac fly to left field to score Hogarth and cut Charlotte's lead in half. 
 
After a pair of scoreless innings, Charlotte's McCabe would hit his second two-run home run of the afternoon in the fifth inning to extend the Niners' lead to 4-1. A solo shot in the bottom half of the sixth would give Charlotte a 5-1 edge. 
 
The home side would score runs in the seventh and the eighth to push the lead to 7-1. The Tribe had baserunners in the ninth but stranded a pair as Charlotte too a six-run win in the opener. 
 
In game two, Charlotte scored four unearned runs in the first inning and that was all they needed in a 4-0 shutout.
 
In the opening frame, the 49ers loaded the bases after back-to-back Tribe errors. After a Craig Keuchel sac fly plated the first run, Austin Knight delivered the big blow with a two-out, three-run homer to right center.
 
W&M put two runners on in both the fifth and seventh innings but could not scratch. Senior David Hogarth singled with one out in the fifth, and sophomore Max Winters doubled with one away in the seventh but despite a walk in both frames, W&M did not score.
 
The Tribe's best chance to push one across came in the eighth as senior Tyler Solomon doubled down the right field line to put runners on second and third following a Matt McDermott walk. Charlotte's Christian Lothes responded with a strike out and induced a ground out to get the 49ers out of the inning.
 
The Tribe received strong pitching performances from all three guys on the mound. Sophomore Ben Greenspon started and threw four innings without allowing an earned run and scattering six hits. Sophomore lefthander Matt Howat struck out five in 2.2 scoreless innings, and freshman Garrett Newsome threw the final 1.1 innings scoreless with a strikeout.