WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Senior centerfielder Bobby Littlehale (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) drove in the game-winning run with a two-out infield single in the top of the ninth inning to lift the Washington and Lee baseball team to a 3-1 win over Bridgewater in the ODAC Tournament on Friday in Winston-Salem, N.C. The win improves the Generals' mark to 24-5 on the season and establishes a new single-season standard for wins, eclipsing the previous mark of 23 which was set in 2001.

Senior Michael Hanson (Atlanta, Ga./Pace Academy) scored the game-winning run after reaching base on an error. Junior second baseman Austin Allain (Weston, Mass./Weston) sacrificed him over to second and he advanced to third on senior first baseman Brian Gladysz's (Palm Harbor, Fla./Berkeley Prep) grounder to short. From there, Littlehale knocked Hanson in with a slow-roller to short and beat the throw to first base with a head-first slide. Freshman third baseman Taylor McConnell (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) gave the Generals breathing room by following junior rightfielder Bryan Mulhern's (Chadds Ford, Pa./Unionville) single with an RBI-single to centerfield.

W&L took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fifth inning when sophomore catcher Zach Bausch (Vienna, Va./McLean) scampered home on a wild pitch. However, Bridgewater (20-17) battled back to even it at 1-apiece in the bottom half of the sixth on rightfielder Scott Hearn's RBI-double.

Hanson, who started and played the first seven innings at shortstop, relieved junior righthander Dan Kagey (Marietta, Ga./Lovett) in the eighth inning and threw two scoreless frames to improve to 3-0 on the season. Kagey exited after rationing the Eagles to one run on four hits and three walks over seven innings. He recorded eight strikeouts.

Gladysz and Mulhern each went 2-for-4 at the plate to pace the Generals.

Dan Proctor (5-2) took the loss for Bridgewater after surrendering one run on one hit in 2 1/3 innings of action. No Eagles managed more than one hit.

W&L and Virginia Wesleyan, the two remaining unbeaten teams in the tournament, square off Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m.

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