DOVER, Del. – The pitching duo of
Kaden Straily and
Justin Ritz allowed just five hits as Coppin State's baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Delaware State with a 9-2 victory against the Hornets at Bob Reed Field. The Eagles improved to 13-23 overall and 11-7 in the NEC with its ninth-straight conference victory.
Straily allowed an unearned run, giving up just three hits and striking out four in 5.2 innings of work. Ritz earned his sixth save of the season while allowing just one run on two hits in the final 3.1 innings.
Coppin tallied 14 base hits on the afternoon, three of which were off the bat of
Daniel Moore who also scored twice.
Anthony Divittorio,
Jayden Asencio,
Bryce Thompson and
Pranav Sundar also had multi-hit games while
Indy Anderson drove in a pair of runs. Divittorio matched Moore with two runs and became Coppin's all-time leader in hit by pitch after being plunked for the 40
th time of his career to surpass
Mike Dorcean.
The Eagles started fast with a six-run first inning which was more than enough run support for Straily and Ritz. Divittorio and Moore got it started with back-to-back singles before Anderson's groundout gave Coppin the lead. Asencio and
Noah Hogan followed with RBI singles to extend the lead to three. Sundar reached on a fielding error, allowing another run to score before a wild pitch and a single by
Gavin Grutzmacher capped off the inning.
Delaware State got on the board with an unearned run in the third to make it a 6-1 score, which remained until the sixth when the Eagles tacked on two more. Divittorio took his record-breaking plunk with one out, got to third on a double by Moore, and both him and Moore scored on a single by Anderson.
Divittorio also found a hole in right field during the seventh to extend the lead to 9-1 and all the Hornets could muster was a run in the ninth as Coppin took out the brooms.
CSU returns home to face Le Moyne in a three-game NEC series on April 25-27 at Joe Cannon Stadium.
