HANOVER, Md. – Coppin State's baseball team dropped its second-straight game to Maryland Eastern Shore by a 5-4 margin on Saturday afternoon at Joe Cannon Stadium. The Eagles fell to 2-15 overall and 2-6 in the NEC while the Hawks moved to 4-15 on the year and 3-5 in league play.
Angel Garcia had three of Coppin's seven hits while driving in a run with
Emilio Feliciano driving in two runs and
Marcus Sanders scoring a pair.
Dillon Kirksey had a quality start on the mound, allowing just one earned run on hit hits while striking out seven in 6.0 innings.
Jack Joyce gave up just one run in his two innings while the deciding run charged to
Keith Wallace in the ninth was also unearned.
Feliciano put Coppin on top 2-0 with a two-run single in the second, driving in
Nelson Grajales and Sanders who had back-to-back one-out singles. The Hawks tied the score at two a pair of runs in the fourth and added another run in the fifth to take a 3-2 lead.
Garcia drove in
Pedro Agosto in the bottom half of the inning to tie the score before Kirksey threw a 1-2-3 sixth inning to wrap up his day. UMES tagged Joyce for a run in the seventh to go back on top, 4-3, but the lead was short lived as Sanders scored an unearned run in the bottom of the eighth.
UMES scored the game-winning run in the ninth as a throw from short with two outs went wild, allowing a run to score, and despite a double by Garcia in the ninth, CSU was unable to capitalize.
CSU and Maryland Eastern Shore wrap up their series at 1 pm on Sunday, March 22 at Joe Cannon Stadium.
