GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Coleman Sawyer lined an RBI single to left field to drive home Josh Madole in the ninth inning and lift UNCG to a 2-1 victory over Furman in Southern Conference baseball action Sunday afternoon at UNCG Baseball Stadium.

The win earned the series victory for UNCG (20-10, 5-3 SoCon) while Furman (11-20, 4-4 SoCon) fell for the fourth time in the last five games, the last two coming on opponents' final turn at the plate.

Sawyer's game winning hit came after Madole singled to lead off the ninth and advanced to second on a Hogan Windish walk.

With the score tied 1-1, Furman failed to capitalize on a prime scoring opportunity in the top of the ninth after putting runners at first and third base with no outs.  Spartans' reliever Phillip Sanders (3-2) struck out David Webel, Sterling Turmon, and John Michael Boswell to end the threat.

Paladin starter David Dunlavey (2-6) was the tough luck loser after allowing only one run on five hits while recording seven strikeouts (no walks) over eight innings.  The redshirt junior right-hander surrendered a Jacquez Koonce solo home run in the third inning and worked out of trouble in the sixth with the help of a pickoff, and again in the eighth, stranding a runner at third base after a leadoff double.

Dunlavey, who threw 72 strikes in 115 pitches, has gotten just two total runs of support in three of his last four starts.

Furman managed just six hits and struck out 12 times in the contest.

The Paladins got their lone run in the seventh when freshman Zach Ahearn, making his first career start, registered his first hit as a Paladin when he singled up the middle to drive home MJ Sasapan, halting Furman's streak of 14 scoreless innings.

UNCG's two hits in the ninth gave them seven for the game.

Furman plays at Clemson on Wednesday.