BALTIMORE – In its final home games of the season, Coppin State's softball team dropped a pair to North Carolina A&T on Wednesday afternoon. The Eagles (8-19) dropped game one, 7-5, and the nightcap, 13-6, while the Aggies improved to 18-29 on the season.
Game 1: North Carolina A&T def. Coppin State, 7-5
The Eagles made a valiant comeback attempt after falling behind 7-0 after the third inning but fell just short. North Carolina A&T scored two in the first and five in the third before starting pitcher
Tatjana Harris held them scoreless the rest of the way in the complete game.
Coppin got on the board with two runs in the fourth on an RBI triple by
Giselle Ulloa, followed by a sacrifice fly from
Julianna Mejia.
Emily Quintero drove in
Camaren Corbett with a double to the gap in left center in the fifth before
Yasmin Burrell delivered with a pinch-hit two-run double in the sixth to score
Brooklyn Tapusoa and
Kylee Sandino.
CSU put the tying run into scoring position in the seventh with a pair of walks and a wild pitch before a groundout ended the game.
Corbett, Quintero, and Ulloa all had two hits with a run while Harris gave up five earned on seven hits in the loss.
Game 2: North Carolina A&T def. Coppin State, 13-6
Giselle Ulloa went 3-for-3 with a home run, two runs scored, three RBI and a walk while
Aniyah Haley, Brooklyn Lee-Scott and
Julianna Mejia also drove in runs. Lee-Scott struck out a season-high seven batters but was charged with 12 earned runs in the complete game.
Ulloa gave the Eagles their first lead of the afternoon with a two-run home run to left in the bottom of the first, but it was short-lived as the Aggies hit a three-run homer in the second.
North Carolina A&T extended its lead to 7-2 with a four-run third before the Eagles cut into the deficit with RBI base knocks from Haley and Ulloa in the fourth. The Aggies scored six unanswered runs over the next three innings before Coppin's final effort in the seventh which saw RBIs from Mejia and Lee-Scott.
The Eagles are on the road for the final six games of the regular season when they battle Howard (Apr. 18-19) and Morgan State (Apr. 25-26) in three-game series.
