SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Brett Rodriquez belted a walk-off, two-run home run in the ninth inning to give Wofford a 9-8 victory over Furman, allowing the Terriers to avoid a Southern Conference series sweep at the hands of the Paladins on Sunday afternoon at Russell C. King Field.

Furman (23-28, 11-10 SoCon), trailed 7-0 after five innings before scoring eight unanswered runs, including three runs in the eighth inning, to take an 8-7 lead.

Wofford (31-22, 12-8 SoCon) had the last answer, however, when Mike Brown drew a leadoff walk off Paladin reliever Eric Taylor, and Rodriquez followed with his walk-off home run on a one-ball, one-strike pitch that he drilled over the left center field fence.

The loss halted Furman's five-game winning streak, but the Paladins, who claimed their third conseucutive series victory, remain in fifth place in the SoCon standings heading into the final series of the regular season, which begins next Thursday against Mercer at Latham Stadium.

Wofford erupted for six runs in the fourth and added another run in the fifth to take a 7-0 lead.

The Paladins began their comeback in the sixth, scoring four runs on a two-run double by Dax Roper and Jared Mihalik two-run home run, his fourth of the season.

Furman made it 7-5 in the seventh on a Jordan Starkes RBI groundout, and kept it going in the eighth, tagging Terrier a pair of Terrier relievers for three runs, including a solo home run by Roper, a Logan Taplett double that scored Trent Alley, and a Bret Huebner infield single that drove home pinch-runner Zach Ahearn to put the Paladins ahead, 8-7.

Taylor stranded base runners at second and third in the eighth by getting Reed Massey on a line drive to second baseman Banks Griffith.

Furman, which out-hit Wofford 13-7, was paced by Alley, who went 4-for-5 with two doubles and two runs.  Roper's ninth home run of the campaign highlighted his 2-for-5, three-RBI performance, and Huebner had two hits and a sacrifice in four plate appearances.

Taylor (2-1) was charged with the loss.

Rasesh Pandya (4-2) worked the final two innings and got the benefit of the walk-off home run to earn the victory after surrendering Furman's go-ahead run in the eighth.