DURHAM, N.C. – The North Carolina Central University baseball team will play its first midweek games as the Eagles host Appalachian State on Tuesday, March 1 and visit the reigning Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference regular season champions of Norfolk State University on Wednesday, March 2.

NCCU (3-4) is coming off a series win over Niagara University where the Eagles took three of four games at the Durham Athletic Park Feb. 26-28.  Carlos Ortiz (Cleveland, Ohio) earned MEAC Player of the Week honors after batting .467 through the series with nine RBI stemming from two homers, two doubles and a triple.

App State (1-7) travels to Durham after its first home games of the season in a four-game series with Quinnipiac Feb. 27-28.  The Mountaineers got their first win of the young season against those Bobcats by way of a 10-7 decision on Saturday, Feb. 27.

Colin Schmid leads App State at the plate with a .344 batting average and six RBI.  He has a couple of doubles, a triple and a homer so far this season, and is slugging .563.

NSU (3-5) last hosted NJIT Feb. 28-29 and won the series with three wins out of four.  Spartan hurler Matt Outman won Pitcher of the Week for tossing a shutout with seven strikeouts and six hits against the Highlanders, and Kevin Granger earned Rookie of the Week after batting 3-for-8 with two steals and an RBI during the series.

Admission to home games at the Durham Athletic Park is free, and you can follow NCCU Baseball on the official Twitter account of NCCU Athletics, @NCCUAthletics.

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