HANOVER, Md. – Daniel Moore and
Elijah Charlot combined for seven hits and had three RBI apiece as Coppin State's baseball team fell to Richmond, 20-10, on a windy Tuesday afternoon at Joe Cannon Stadium. The Eagles fell to 10-23 overall while the Spiders improved to 25-10.
Both Moore and Charlot came off the bench early in the game, and Moore finished 4-for-4 with two runs and a double. Charlot went 3-for-5 with a run scored.
Indy Anderson and
Noah Hogan both had a pair of hits and Hogan also drew a pair of walks.
Jamar Whitehead and
Pranav Sundar scored two runs apiece with Whitehead and
Gavin Grutzmacher also drawing two free passes apiece.
It was a staff outing for the Eagles' pitching staff who got a pair of innings from
Jeremiah Eneix in the start, while
Michael Matthews and
Brandon Stephens also threw a pair of innings. Eneix and Stephens struck out three batters apiece with Eneix allowing just one run.
Isaiah Licorish and
Park Roeder combined to throw the third and fourth innings with Roeder making it through 1.2 innings.
Eneix struck out the first two batters of the game and got out of the first unscathed before Richmond scored a run in the second. The Spiders then erupted for 12 runs on six hits and capitalized on three errors in the third.
Moore and Charlot got Coppin on the board with back-to-back RBI singles in the fourth, but Richmond got both runs back and added another in the fifth.
After Richmond tacked on another run in the sixth, Coppin scored three in the bottom half, starting with an RBI double by Moore, followed by a two-run single by Charlot.
Coppin answered Richmond's run in the seventh with four in its half of the frame. Moore and Anderson both drove in runs with singles before
Jayden Asencio added another with a sacrifice fly.
Richmond extended its lead to 20-9 after its half of the eighth and Coppin managed just one run in its half as
Curtis Battle scored from third on a double play. Grutzmacher and walked and Moore singled once again to threaten, but the Spiders retired the side.
Coppin returns to action on Thursday-Saturday, April 17-19 at Delaware State. The Eagles have won six-straight NEC games, all coming against their former MEAC rivals.
