B-CU Advances to MEAC Title Game with 3-2 Win over North Carolina A&T

Bethune Cookman University head coach Mervyl Melendez was in awe of Aggies pitcher Marquise Frink, who struck out a career high 14 Wildcat batters. (Photo by Mark's Digital Sports Photography)

Norfolk, Va. - Joseph Gautier and Phil Enright were all but lights-out on the mound on Saturday as Bethune-Cookman University defeated North Carolina A&T State University, 3-2 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament at Marty L. Miller Baseball Field in Norfolk, Va.

B-CU (35-20) used their supreme pitching exploits in the form of Joseph "Gio" Gautier to help the Wildcats in a monster match-up with North Carolina A&T. N.C. A&T (29-29) went with Marquis Frink in return on the hill.

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Norfolk State reaches MEAC Baseball Championship Game

NSU head coach Claudell Clark has an opportunity to meet or exceed his best career record of 25-25 (2007). Win two games over Bethune Cookman--the Spartans will be MEAC Champions. The team is currently 25-23 in Clark's fourth year at the helm. (Photo by Mark's Digital Sports Photography).

Norfolk State beat Florida A&M, 5-2, sending the Rattlers home from the MEAC Tournament.

NORFOLK, Va. – The improbable ride of the Norfolk State baseball team hasn’t stopped yet. Saturday night, it punched its ticket to the next destination: the MEAC championship game.

Four different players drove in two runs, and the Spartans got another gritty pitching performance in routing North Carolina A&T, 10-5, at Marty L. Miller Field. NSU will face top-seeded Bethune-Cookman at 2 p.m. Sunday with the unenviable task of having to beat the Wildcats not once but twice to earn the conference title and a berth in the NCAA Regionals.

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North Carolina A&T stops FAMU in 9th

NORFOLK, Va. – It was just like the day before -- bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning. This time, FAMU became the victim, losing 6-4 to North Carolina A&T this afternoon in the MEAC baseball tournament.

Nick Rogers delivered the blow that dropped FAMU to 1-1 in the tournament. The Aggies move on to face Bethune-Cookman University on Saturday afternoon.

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Norfolk State fights back against Maryland-Eastern Shore

NORFOLK, Va. – As the ball rolled under his glove and into left-center field, Norfolk State shortstop Moriba George dropped his chin to his chest in frustration.

After a heart-breaking loss to North Carolina A&T on Thursday, the last thing George wanted to do was commit an error to spot Maryland Eastern-Shore a lead. But that’s exactly what happened in Friday’s elimination game in the MEAC Tournament at Marty L. Miller Field.

But George and the Spartans redeemed themselves and stayed alive with a 7-2 victory. The Spartans were scheduled to play Delaware State in another elimination game later in the evening.

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North Carolina A&T pulls out win over Norfolk State

Archive Photo: North Carolina A&T Aggies head coach Keith Shumate.

NORFOLK, Va. – In a game that played dead even for seven-plus innings, Thursday’s MEAC first-round game between fifth-seeded Norfolk State and second-seeded North Carolina A&T was probably going to come down to which team caught a break.

A&T caught two of them, and Nick Rogers was in the middle of both.

Rogers’ long fly ball into left-center field bounced off the outstretched glove of NSU center fielder TiQuan Griffin, allowing two runs to score in the bottom of the eighth, and the Aggies escaped with a 4-2 victory.

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FAMU pulls out dramatic win over Delaware State

Photo: FAMU Pitcher Cirilo Manego has ugly game, but goes distance for the victory as FAMU saves their ace pitcher for North Carolina A&T game scheduled on Friday.

NORFOLK, Va. – After hitting a bases-clearing double to send Florida A&M over Delaware State, shortstop Tim Schalch and his teammates sprinted toward the outfield at Marty L. Miller Field. And straight for the tarp.

The victory was dramatic. The celebration was short.

FAMU players began rolling out the tarp in anticipation of heavy overnight rains Thursday. The Rattlers’ 7-6 come-from-nowhere victory was actually interrupted by a brief rain delay in the bottom of the ninth.

After it rained, FAMU poured it on.

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Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: BCU pounds UMES Hawks into losers bracket

Archive Photo: UMES Coach William Garner had no answer for the hard hitting BCU Wildcats. (Photo by Kevin M. Robinson Photography).

B-CU pounds out 14 hits in run-rule contest
Norfolk, Va. - Hiram Burgos proved his worth on the mound and Osvaldo Torres provided the hitting power as Bethune-Cookman University breezed through the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 13-1 on Thursday morning in the first round of the annual Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament at Marty L. Miller Baseball Field in Norfolk, Va.

B-CU did not take any chances with the opposition on Thursday as the top-seeded Wildcats (34-20) went with the Pitcher of the Year--Hiram Burgos, as the opening starter in back-to-back years. B-CU's Francisco Rodriguez collected the award last year and started against the Hawks as well in 2007.

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