HANOVER, Md. – Coppin State's baseball team got out to a 9-0 lead and held on the defeat MEAC rival Delaware State, 11-5, on Sunday afternoon at Joe Cannon Stadium. Winners of two of the three games in the series, the Eagles now have 64 victories over the last three-plus seasons, making this year's senior class tied for the most wins of any group of seniors in school-history.
The Basics
- Final Score: Coppin State 11, Delaware State 5
- Records: Coppin State (18-14, 11-4 MEAC), Delaware State (11-20, 6-9 MEAC)
- Location: Hanover, Md. (Joe Cannon Stadium)
Inside the Numbers
- Devin Rivera Ozuna improved to 6-1 on the season, allowing no earned runs on six hits while striking out six in 7.0 innings. The senior from Washington, D.C., threw just 97 pitches and forced ten groundball outs.
- Erik Crossman and Derek Lohr led the Eagles offensively with three RBI apiece. Crossman finished 3-for-4 with three runs, a home run and a double. Lohr went 2-for-2 with two runs and drew a pair of walks.
- Matt Day and Corey Treyes also had multi-hit days for Coppin State.
How It Happened
- Coppin scored in each of the first four innings to take a 9-0 lead but first scored three runs in the first inning. Matt Day and Justin Banks started it off with back-to-back singles before Erik Crossman drove in the first run with a double down the left field line. Nazier McIlwain then hit a deep fly ball to score Banks and Crossman later scored on a single by Derek Lohr.
- Devin Rivera Ozuna got a 1-2-3 second inning with two strikeouts and CSU got another two runs in its half of the frame as Crossman hit a shot over the left field fence for a two-run home run.
- The Eagles got one more in the third and another three runs in the fourth on a two-run double by Lohr and a RBI single by Drew Thomas.
- Delaware State took advantage of some poor Coppin defense in the fifth and scored three runs, all of which were unearned, cutting the deficit to 9-3.
- Rivera Ozuna's final inning came in the seventh, and it was his most efficient of the day as he retired the side on just six pitches.
- It remained a six-run game until Day recorded an RBI single in the seventh, followed by a sacrifice fly by Banks, extending the lead to 11-3.
- Jonathan Rice pitched the eighth inning and gave up two tough-luck runs before Corey Treyes got a 1-2-3 ninth inning to seal the victory.
Up Next: Coppin hosts Mount St. Mary's on Tuesday, April 16 prior to a three-game MEAC series at Norfolk State on April 19-20.
