HANOVER, Md. – The bats for the Coppin State baseball team came alive in a 11-3 rout of Hartford on Sunday afternoon at Joe Cannon Stadium. With the win, the Eagles are now 10-17 on the season and won the three-game series against the Hawks.
Jordan Hamberg matched a season-high with ten strikeouts in 5.0 innings of work while allowing just two runs to earn the victory. He helped his own cause by recording a three-run home run, while scoring twice and drawing a walk.
Brody Black and
Mike Dorcean also drove in a pair of runs apiece with Black recording a pair of hits.
Angel Colon went 3-for-4 with two runs and
Nathan Burdette recorded his first base hit as an Eagle while scoring twice and walking twice.
Nico Felber and
Clay Thompson both struck out a pair in their innings while
Juan Pablo Hernandez tossed the final 2.0 innings, giving up just a run on two hits.
Hamberg struck out a pair in each of the first two innings, and after striking out the side in the third, Coppin scored six in the third to take a 6-1 lead. Colon started the inning with a single before advancing to second on a walk. He then scored as
Brett Curran reached on a bunt single along with a throwing error by the pitcher to tie the score.
Black gave CSU the lead with a two-run ground rule double to right, and after Hamberg drew a walk, both scored on Dorcean's two-bagger to left center. A wild pitch allowed Dorcean to get to third and he later scored on a
Josh Hankins groundout.
Hartford cut the deficit to 6-2 with a run in the fifth, and it remained a four-run game until Burdette's RBI double to left which drove in Colon. Following a walk to Black, Hamberg blasted a 3-2 pitch over the fence in right field to extend the advantage to 10-2.
The Hawks scored a run in the eighth, which was matched by the Eagles with an RBI groundout by
Liam McCallum in the bottom half of the inning.
Coppin heads to Navy for a 5 pm start on Wednesday, April 5 before taking on longtime rival Maryland Eastern Shore in a three-game NEC series on April 6-8. Thursday's game is set for 3 pm, followed by 1 pm on Friday and 12 pm on Saturday.
