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NORFOLK, Va., May 20, 2022 – Coppin State upended top seed Delaware State 15-5 in eight innings on Friday in the 2022 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Baseball Championship at Marty L. Miller Field, earning its first championship game slot since 1995.
 
The No. 2 seed Eagles advanced to Saturday’s championship game, set for 12 p.m. Delaware State fell into the elimination bracket, where at 7 p.m., they will face the winner of the Maryland Eastern Shore-Norfolk State game.
 
The Eagles are in search of their second MEAC title overall and first since 1995.
 
Coppin State (23-27) scored in every inning but the seventh, and it started in the first when Jordan Hamberg scored on a wild pitch. The Hornets answered in the bottom of the frame, when MEAC Player of the Year Trey Paige tripled home a run and Krew Bouldin had an RBI single to give Delaware State a 2-1 lead.
 
A Wellington Balsley single and Josh Hankins reaching on a fielder’s choice put the Eagles back up, 3-2 in the second, then a Mike Dorcean sacrifice fly in the third put Coppin State up 4-2.
 
A wild pitch and sac fly for the Hornets tied the game at 4-4 after three.
 
Coppin blew the game open in the fourth, pushing across five runs. Sebastien Sarabia had an RBI single, Dorcean walked with the bases loaded and Brian Nicolas doubled to right field with the bases loaded to bring in three runs and put the Eagles up 9-4.
 
Alan Alonso had an RBI single in the bottom of the fourth, but that was it for the Hornets (23-22).
 
Coppin State pushed across two more runs in the fifth and three in the sixth to go up 14-5. One run run came in the eighth, when Matt Day reached on an error and Nicolas scored to push the game to its final margin.
 
Nicolas was 3-for-5 at the plate with five RBIs and three runs scored. Hamberg, Sarabia and Corey Miley each had two hits and two RBIs apiece.
 
For the second straight game, every starter for Coppin State recorded at least one hit.
 
Tyler Nichol picked up his second win of the season on the mound, going 6.2 innings and striking out four. He threw 134 pitches on the afternoon.
 
For the Hornets, Bouldin was 2-for-5 at the plate with an RBI.
 
Saturday’s championship game will be streamed live, for free, on HBCUGo and on the MEAC Digital Network YouTube channel. 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.