BALTIMORE – Coppin State softball's season came to and with three losses to Morgan State over the weekend at CSU Softball Field. In Saturday's game, which was suspended and finished on Sunday, the Eagles (3-28, 3-18 MEAC), fell 8-7. Sunday also featured a doubleheader where the Bears won the opener, 10-9, and the nightcap, 10-5, in extra innings.
Game 1: Morgan State def. Coppin State, 8-7
Giselle Ulloa went 2-for-3 with a triple and a home run while scoring twice and driving in three runs.
Aniyah Haley and
Leslie Sereno also had multi-hit games while
Julianna Mejia and
Xzylia Maravilla drove in runs.
Tatjana Harris went the distance in the circle, allowing eight runs in 7.0 innings.
Both teams scored in the first, with Ulloa answering a Bears run with an inside the park home run which got past a diving Bears outfielder. Also scoring on the play was Haley who led off the frame with a single.
Coppin remained on top until the fourth when Morgan scored three times to take a 4-2 lead. The Eagles retook the lead in the fifth with four runs, first tying the score on RBI base knocks from Haley and Mejia. Ulloa followed Mejia's single with a triple, giving the Eagles back the lead, and she later scored on a sacrifice fly by Maravilla.
Morgan matched Coppin's four runs in the sixth to go up, 8-6.
Emily Quintero cut the deficit to a run with a bunt single in the sixth, and the throw went wild which allowed Sereno to score from second following a double.
The game was suspended in the seventh due to lightning and heavy rain and was resumed at 12:35 pm the next day. Harris quickly got all three outs despite restarting the game with two runners on base.
Maravilla led off the seventh with a single but failed to advance any further.
Game 2: Morgan State def. Coppin State, 10-9
Four Eagles had multi-hit games with Mejia and Maravilla driving in two runs apiece. Ulloa and Quintero also had RBI, as did
Brooklyn Tapusoa and
Paris Pinkston. Harris went 4.0 innings and allowed three runs in 4.0 innings.
Debra Hyde also got time in the circle, giving up five runs in 3.0 innings.
Morgan State quickly got on the board with a three-run homer in the first, and extended the lead to 7-1 with a pair of runs in the second and third.
CSU put together four runs on four hits in the third to stay alive. Haley led off with a walk and scored a double by Mejia. Ulloa drove in Mejia with a single, and Maravilla scored all the way from first on a triple by Tapusoa. Following a popup, Quintero drove in a run with an infield single.
The Bears got one run back in the fourth and added two more in the fifth, extending the lead to 10-5.
Maravilla and Pinkston drove in runs with a double and a single in the fifth, and both Mejia and Maravilla added RBI in the sixth to make it a one-run deficit. A fielding error allowed Maravilla to advance to second but a groundout ended the inning.
Coppin went down in order in the seventh.
Game 3: Morgan State def. Coppin State, 10-5 (8 innings)
Sereno went 4-for-4 while Ulloa had another two hits and scored twice. Tapusoa also went 1-for-2 with two runs, an RBI and a pair of walks. Quintero went all 8.0 innings in the circle, allowing eight earned runs.
Morgan State scored the first four runs before Coppin got on the board with runs in the fourth and fifth on a sacrifice fly by
Natasha Arroyo, and an RBI single by Tapusoa.
The Bears got one run back in the sixth, before CSU tied the score at five with a three run seventh to send the game into extra innings. Mejia led off the seventh with a walk and advanced to second on a third following a single by Ulloa and a throwing error. The threat was thwarted as Ulloa took from second in a designed double steal, and Mejia was thrown out at home.
A fielding error with Maravilla at the plate allowed Ulloa to score before a walk by Tapusoa and a single by Sereno loaded the bases. A wild pitch allowed another run to score before Quintero tied the game with an RBI groundout to short.
Morgan started the eighth with a runner on second due to international tiebreaker rules and proceeded to score five runs on four hits and an error.
Coppin failed to score in the final inning, allowing the Bears to complete the sweep.
