Six-Run Second Dooms Norfolk State In Loss To Longwood
FARMVILLE, Va. - Alex Lewis went 4-for-5 with three runs batted in, and host Longwood scored six runs in the second inning to earn an 11-9 win over Norfolk State on Tuesday evening at Buddy Bolding Stadium.
Roger Hall had three hits and Syeed Mahdi went 2-for-4 with a double and a triple for the Spartans (9-13).
Chase Anderson (3-2) took the loss for the Spartans, allowing five hits and seven runs - six earned - in two innings pitched. He walked five and struck out one.
Allen Ellis (1-0), the third of Longwood's pitchers, was the winner for the Lancers. He allowed two runs in 1.1 innings of relief. Jones picked up the save.
Mahdi, Hall, Denathan Dukes and Brian Beard scored two runs each for NSU. Beard stole two bases and Dukes had one.
The Spartans play a three-game MEAC series at Coppin State this Saturday and Sunday in Baltimore, Md.
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Florida A&M Held to Two Hits in Loss to North Florida
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida A&M (15-9, 5-1 MEAC) was shut out for the first time this season and held to just two hits as they fell to North Florida (16-10, 0-0 A-SUN) by a score of 15-0 on Tuesday at Harmon Stadium.
UNF scored 14 runs on 13 hits and sent 29 batters to the plate in the first three innings to take quick command of the game. FAMU’s first hit came in the sixth inning on a Peter Jackson single and the Rattlers didn’t have a runner reach second base until the seventh inning. Jackson accounted for both Florida A&M’s hits in the game.
Rattler starter Danny Rodriguez (3-1) took the loss after he recorded just one out and allowed five runs on five hits with two walks and one wild pitch in the first inning. The Rattlers used seven different pitchers in the loss as Kendal Weeks worked a scoreless sixth and seventh inning of relief and allowed just one hit.
Osprey starter Frank German (1-3) pitched the first two innings effectively to earn his first win of the season. German had two strikeouts and one walk without allowing a run or hit in the start.
Florida A&M returns home this weekend to host North Carolina Central in a key MEAC matchup between the top two teams in the Southern Division. The two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 1:00 p.m. and the series will conclude on Sunday with first pitch also scheduled for 1:00 p.m.
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Eagles Solve High Point for First Modern Era Victory over Panthers
DURHAM, N.C. – North Carolina Central University piled up 11 runs in the first three innings to run past High Point University 14-1 on Tuesday, March 29 at the Durham Athletic Park.
With the win, NCCU (13-13) picked up its first win over HPU (18-6) in the modern era after starting 0-4 against the Panthers. In those four losses the Panthers had outscored the Eagles 35-7, but the Eagles doubled that output in this game.
NCCU jumped all over HPU out of the gate, and sent all nine batters to the plate in the first frame to score four runs. All of those runs came from four consecutive batters, starting with an RBI double from Carlos Ortiz.
The Eagles struck again in the bottom of the second on a three-run crush from Zachary Marszal and James Dey kept the momentum rolling in the bottom of the third on a grand slam off of the wall of the warehouse in right-center to give NCCU a commanding 11-0 lead through three innings.
Christian Gonnelli did his job to keep the Panthers off the board as he went seven complete innings and scattered six hits with just one earned run on a solo shot from Luke Parker. Gonnelli didn’t issue a single walk and fanned a season-high nine batters during his shift.
NCCU closes up its eight-game home stand with a 4-4 record and now heads west to visit Appalachian State University on Wednesday, March 30 before a big three-game series with Florida A&M beginning on Saturday, April 2.
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