April 21, 2007
BOX SCORE GAME ONE
BOX SCORE GAME TWO
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Longwood University split a baseball doubleheader on the road at North Carolina A&T University Saturday at War Memorial Stadium in Greensboro, winning the second game 11-10 after falling 4-3 in the first game. The Lancers are now 30-13 this season, while the Aggies are now 16-23. The two squads will play the three-game weekend series finale on Sunday, April 22, at 1 p.m. in Greensboro.
In the nightcap, Longwood scored seven runs in the fifth inning to secure the high-scoring victory and split of the twinbill. The Lancers had plated three runs in the first inning, adding a run in the fourth inning as well. Senior Tyler Childress/Montclair (Forest Park) (3-4, 4 RBI) delivered the big blast in the fifth, a three-run home run to left field, while freshman Phi Cerreto/Midlothian (Midlothian) (3-5, RBI) also added an RBI single in the inning. LU was aided in the frame by two errors, a walk, a wild pitch, and a passed ball as well. Childress, who leads the team with seven homers, had an RBI single in the three-run first, as did freshman Casey Havers/ Thorofare, N.J. (West Deptford) (2-3, RBI). Sophomore Robbie Bailey/Mechanicsville (Hanover) (2-4, RBI) contributed an RBI single in the fourth inning, however, Bailey’s 16-game hitting streak was stopped in the first game of the doubleheader.
Redshirt senior and left-handed pitcher Brett Mangigian/Midlothian (Midlothian) (2-0) earned the mound win in relief with 2.2 innings of work, allowing four hits and two runs, both earned, with one strikeout and one walk. Classmate and left-handed pitcher Needham Jones III/Portsmouth (Woodrow Wilson) recorded the final out on a ground ball to pick-up his third save of the year.
In the opener, Longwood took a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning before the hosts scored two runs in the inning to take the one-run triumph. Cerreto (2-2, 2 RBI) led the Lancers with a two-run single in the seventh after scoring a run in the sixth with a lead-off single and later crossing the plate on an RBI ground-out by Childress (0-3, RBI). Freshman Frank Berry II/Virginia Beach (First Colonial) (2-4) also had two hits for Longwood. Junior right-handed pitcher John Farrell/Nantucket, Mass. (Nantucket) (5-3) took the pitching loss with the first 6.0 innings while scattering eight hits and four runs, three earned, with one strikeout and no walks. Jones also pitched 2.0 innings in the first game, yielding just one hit with one strikeout.
Longwood attained its 12th 30-win season to go along with [20] 25-win seasons, and [26] 20-win seasons in the 29-year history of the program.
