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NORFOLK, Va., May 19, 2022 – Coppin State erased a six-run deficit on Thursday in the 2022 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Baseball Championship at Marty L. Miller Field, scoring nine unanswered en route to a 9-8 win over Maryland Eastern Shore.
 
The No. 2 seed Eagles will take on top seed Delaware State at 12 p.m. on Friday. UMES falls to the elimination bracket, where the Hawks will face Norfolk State at 3:30.
 
The Hawks were firing out of the gate, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning – all with two outs. After Dillon Oxyer walked, he scored on a double to right-center from Ryan Howe. Brantley Cutler followed with a walk of his own, before Alex McCoy tripled to right-center to bring them both home.
 
McCoy then scored on a wild pitch to put UMES up 4-0.
 
UMES tacked on two more runs in the second; after Nick Roets reached on a fielding error, the Hawks got back-to-back-to-back singles from Andrew Revels, Brian Cordell and Oxyer. Roets scored on Cordell’s base hit and Revels came in on Oxyer’s knock to give the Hawks a 6-0 lead.
 
The Eagles (22-27) cut that lead in half in the third, thanks in large part to the MEAC Rookie of the Year and Pitcher of the Year. Josh Hankins doubled down the left field line to drive in the first run, before Jordan Hamberg singled in a run of his own.
 
Marcos Castillo also had an RBI single to cut the lead to 6-3. But the Eagles could’ve had more, as Sebastien Sarabia was thrown out at home to end the inning and the Eagles had another runner picked off at second.
 
But the fourth inning saw Coppin State send 10 batters to plate and push across six runs. Brian Nicolas started the scoring with a triple down the right field line, Matt Day had an RBI single, Hankins and Castillo both recorded RBI doubles (Castillo’s the two-RBI variety) and Corey Miley singled home a run.
 
UMES (16-36) scored a run each in the seventh and the eighth, cutting the Eagles’ lead to 9-8 on a pair of RBI groundouts.
 
Though Hamberg struggled to the tune of those six runs in the first two innings, he settled down and struck out nine in six innings of work. He held the Hawks scoreless in his last four innings of work. In the process, he set the Coppin State program record for most strikesouts in a single season.
 
Castillo was 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs. Hankins was 2-for-5 with two RBIs.
 
Each Coppin State starter had at least one hit.
 
McCoy led the Hawks with a 3-for-4 effort at the plate, driving in a pair. Howe also had two RBIs.
 
Friday’s games will be streamed live, for free, on HBCUGo. Visit HBCUGo.tv to watch, or download the HBCUGo app for free on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV.
 
For more on the 2022 MEAC Baseball Championship, please visit the Championship Central page.