CLINTON, S.C. – The Presbyterian College baseball team grabbed an early lead in its Friday matchup against Winthrop, but couldn't hold off the Winthrop offense as the Eagles took the win by a 15-1 margin.

PC falls to 19-27 overall and 4-15 in Big South Conference play while Winthrop improves to 22-25 and 10-9 in league action.

Jordan Pace (Charleston, S.C.) allowed one earned run but received the loss to move to 2-7 on the year. Winthrop's Tyler Mizenko improves to 4-2 with the win.

Brad Zebedis (Rock Hill, S.C.) tallied PC's lone run batted in and Mack Hite (Abbeville, S.C.) scored the run for the Blue Hose.

Five different PC players registered hits on the day.

Eddie Rohan led Winthrop with three RBI and T.J. Olesczuk tallied a game-high three hits.

PC went to work early by taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Hite posted the game's first hit, lifting a double down the left field line and coming around to score when Zebedis lined a 3-2 pitch to left field for his team-leading 46th RBI of the year.

Winthrop answered in the top of the third, recording four hits and taking advantage of two PC errors to score four runs and erase the Blue Hose lead.

The Eagles found another four runs in the fourth inning on three hits and an error to lead, 8-1.

A three-run home run from Justin Hopper helped the Eagles to six runs in the seventh as they extended their lead to 14-1.

Winthrop would score once more in the eighth to take the score to its final result, 15-1.

PC returns on Saturday at 2 p.m. for the second game of the series. The Blue Hose will honor their six seniors in a ceremony at 1:45 p.m. before the first pitch.