SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Interstat) — The South Carolina Upstate Spartans defeated the Elon Phoenix 7-6 in 10 innings Thursday at Cleveland S. Harley Baseball Park. Chris Torres pitched five innings, allowing three hits and two earned runs with three strikeouts, earning top honors for the Spartans.

The Phoenix built a 6-0 lead in the third inning after Brian DuRoff doubled to right center for two RBIs. Upstate chipped away with sacrifice flies from Lucas P. and Ritzer A. and an RBI single by Henry Zenor in the fourth, cutting the deficit to 6-3. Ritzer added another sacrifice fly in the sixth to make it 6-4.

Elon answered with three runs in the seventh, including an RBI single by Alford and a run scoring on a throwing error, to lead 6-4. The Spartans scored an unearned run in the ninth on a fielding error by the shortstop. In the 10th, Kevin Denty doubled for Elon to make it 7-5, but Upstate rallied. Lucas P. reached on an error and Waters W. singled to drive in the tying and winning runs. Elon fell to 20-33; Upstate improved to 27-27.