BUIES CREEK, N.C. – The Hartford baseball team dropped a pair of game on Sunday as the Campbell Camels completed a four-game sweep of the Hawks over the weekend. Campbell led from the start in game one closing out the contest with a 9-1 victory. In the night-cap, the Hawks scored in the top of the first but dropped a 10-1 decision in the seven-inning game. Hartford is now 0-4 on the season, while the Camels are 6-1 in 2013.

In the opening game, the Hawks were led by Brady Sheetz who finished with two of Hartford three total hits as Trey Stover added the only other hit. On the mound, junior Ryan Carter suffered the loss, pitching just one inning but allowed four runs, two earned, without giving up a hit.

In the second game James Alfonso led Hartford with two of the Hawks six hits. The remaining four hits came from different players. Alfonso also drove in Hartford's only run in the top of the first. On the hill, Ryan Lukach suffered the loss in his first appearance of the season. He completed three innigns and allowed five earned runs on seven hits.

Carter struggled through his first inning on the hill, allowing four runs without giving up a hit. The junior right hander hit four batters in his first hit four batters and walked one in his first inning on the mound. For the Camels, Elijah Trail, Ben Fish and Aaron Vogt all recorded RBI's in the bottom of the first.

The Hawks got their first hit of the game, and just the second base runner, in the top of the fourth with a leadoff single up the middle from Trey Stover. After advancing to second on a failed pickoff attempt, the sophomore second baseman scored from second on a single to left field off the bat of Brady Sheetz.

Campbell answered by scoring single runs in the bottom of the four and fifth innings, extending its lead to 6-1. In the fourth nine-hole hitter Jesse Simmons smacked the first three-bagger of the series and scored on the next at bat as leadoff hitter Ben McQuown sacrificed himself for the run. In the fifth, back-to-back lead-off two-baggers from Trail and David Olson provided the sixth run of the game.

The Camels extended their lead to seven runs, 8-1, with a two-run home run to left field, the first of the series for Campbell, off the bat of Michael Felton. His first home run of the season drove in McQuown who was hit by a pitch. That home run was given up by reliever Kyle Gauthier, a rookie making his first appearance. Felton would also drive in the final run of the game in the eighth.

In the second game, the Hawks struck first with back-to-back one out hits in the top of the first. Batting second in the order Stover started the offense with a single up the middle, followed by a double to right center field from Alfonso that allowed Stover to score from 270 feet away.

The Camels then evened the score with a single run in the bottom of the first and took a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the second. The home team took advantage of a pair of errors in the second inning those following a leadoff double to right field from eight-hole hitter Jesse Simmons.

After adding two runs in the third and a run in the fifth, the Camels broke the game open with four runs in the sixth taking a 10-1 lead. In the sixth, Campbell started the inning with four straight hits two singles followed by two doubles. The first, down the left field line off the bat of short stop Brent Graham, drove in a pair of runs, while Felton drove in one run on his two-bagger to left field.

After spending a few days back in the Northeast, the Hawks will travel south again next weekend when they travel to Harrisonburg, Va. For a four-game series at James Madison. The series is scheduled to begin on Friday, March 1, with a single game starting at 4:00 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Park.