HANOVER, Md. – Kenan Harvey and
Noah Hogan drove in five runs apiece as Coppin State's baseball team dropped a slugfest to UMBC, 24-14, on Tuesday afternoon at Joe Cannon Stadium. The Eagles fell to 3-16 on the year while the Retrievers moved to 10-9 overall.
Harvey went 4-for-6 while scoring two runs and finishing a triple shy of the cycle while Hogan slugged a grand slam and added a walk with the bases loaded.
Armando (AJ) Hurtado continued to impress as well, going 3-for-6 with three RBI along with a double.
Pedro Agosto also had a two-hit game while
Terrell Milliner scored a team-high four runs.
The local rivals combined to deploy 15 pitchers with Coppin using eight in the game, starting with
Luke Corcoran who was charged with four earned runs over the first 1.2 innings.
Jackson Montgomery was next in line, allowing three runs while retiring a pair of batters.
Brandon Stephens had the longest outing, throwing 2.1 innings while giving up four runs on a hit and six walks but struck out four.
Edwin Sanchez threw 1.1 innings without allowing a run while all six runs to
Mekenna Wakakuwa were unearned. After
Jack Joyce retired a batter,
Keith Wallace went 1.1 innings while giving up two runs before
Abel Ortiz retired all three batters he faced in the ninth while striking out one.
UMBC scored 12 runs over the first three innings before starting to empty its bench. Coppin got on the board with a run in the third on an RBI single by Hurtado before scoring five in the fourth on a RBI double by Harvey, followed by Hogan's towering grand slam to right field.
The Retrievers answered with a four-run fifth, but CSU got all four runs back and added another in its half of the inning to cut the deficit to 16-11. Harvey started the scoring with a two-run home run to left, and after two walks and an error, Hogan drove in another on a four-pitch walk. Two batters later, Hurtado singled to left to bring in both
Marcus Sanders and Milliner.
Both teams went scoreless in the sixth, the only time of the game where both squads failed to score in a frame. UMBC struck for six runs in the seventh, extending the lead to 22-11, but Coppin extended the game with a two-run single by Harvey in the bottom half of the inning.
Agosto drove in Milliner all the way from first with a double to left in the eighth, but the Retrievers scored two runs in the ninth as Coppin was retired in it's final at-bat.
Coppin heads to Le Moyne for a three-game NEC series on March 27-29 with all three games televised on NEC Front Row.
