Baseball 5/11/2013 1:32:00 PM Associated Press

Baseball Recap: May 10

Hornets Defeat FDU to Reach 20 games over .500

DOVER, Del., - The Delaware State University baseball team improved to 33-13 this season after a 6-3 win over Fairleigh Dickinson at Soldier Field today. Starting pitcher Jordan Elliott threw six solid innings, while Ryan Haas and Hassan Evans drove in two runs each to lead the Hornets.

Elliott allowed five hits and two runs, while striking out six, to improve to 9-1 this season. The Lincoln, Del., native also raised his school record win total to 28 (28-12).

Reliever D.J. Miller allowed an unearned run in the seventh inning and Elliott Gardner retired all six batters he faced in the eighth and ninth innings to earn the save.

The Hornets scored first with a run in the bottom of the second inning. Aaron Nardone singled with one out in the second and later scored on a single by Evans to give DSU a 1-0 lead.

Fairleigh Dickinson scored two runs off Elliott in the top of the fourth inning to take a 2-1 lead.

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Spartans give up 3 HR in loss to ODU

NORFOLK, Va., - Michael Perez hit two solo home runs and Josiah Burney added one of his own to lead host Old Dominion to an 8-3 win over Norfolk State on Friday evening at the Bud Metheny Baseball Complex.

Killian Strenn hit his first collegiate home run and Tyon Ore had two hits for the Spartans (17-27), who have lost six of their last eight.

NSU took a short-lived 1-0 lead in the top of the first off Monarch starter Andy Roberts. Justin Lee led off the game by chopping a single over the third baseman’s head. Strenn sacrificed him to second, and Cameron Day plated Lee with a two-out RBI single.

Perez tied the game up in the bottom of the second with a lead-off homer down the left-field line off Spartan starter Chris Horne (4-5). Perez then hit a two-out solo shot, again off Horne, over the wall in left-center to give ODU a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the fourth.

The Spartans tied it up at 2-all in the top of the fifth. Ore led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice and scored on a two-out single by Andre Moore.

But ODU scored once in both the fifth and sixth innings and four times in the eighth to pull away. Josh Eldridge put the Monarchs ahead to stay with an RBI double in the fifth. Burney then led off the sixth with a solo homer off NSU reliever Richie Salter to give ODU a 4-2 edge.