FARMVILLE, Va. – North Carolina Central University's baseball program and Longwood combined to score 36 runs on 24 hits, but the Lancers were able to snap the Eagles' winning streak with a 22-14 win on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at Bolding Stadium.
 
LU (3-1) set the tone for the afternoon as it batted around to score 10 runs in the bottom of the first, and NCCU (3-1) followed the Lancers' lead by scoring five in the top of the second.
 
Kobe Phillips (Charlotte, N.C.) started the frame by sending the first pitch he saw out of the park for his first home run of the year, and Cort Maynard (Charlotte, N.C.) capped the scoring in the inning with a two-run single after the Eagles took advantage of defensive miscues by the Lancers to send the score to 10-5.
 
LU went on to score 10 unanswered runs, broken up by a sacrifice fly from Luis DeLeon (Providence, R.I.) in the top of the sixth.  The Eagles had their biggest inning of the game in the top of the seventh, where they scored seven runs, including a bases-clearing three-RBI triple from DeLeon.
 
NCCU pushed in two more runs in the top of the ninth on a wild pitch and an RBI single from Daniel Stephens (Raleigh, N.C.), and those would be the last runs of the game.
 
Of note, NCCU drew 14 walks as a team, and that is tied for the second-most in a single game in the modern era at NCCU when the Eagles drew 14 free passes against Maryland Eastern Shore on March 20, 2018.  Nick Fajardo (Durham, N.C.) also drew four walks which is tied for the most in a single game, and he is now the first Eagle to reach that number twice in a career.
 
DeLeon drove in four RBI in total in the contest, and he as now driven in nine RBI in the first four games of the year and has hit a triple in back-to-back games.
 
Hunter Gilliam (Farmville, Va.) led the Lancers with an impressive five-hit day, and drove in six RBI with a three-run home run.
 
NCCU returns home to host a doubleheader with Norfolk State on Saturday, Feb. 27 at the Durham Athletic Park.