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DOVER, Del. – Freshman Nyla Rodgers drove in five runs for a second consecutive day in helping the North Carolina Central University softball team complete an 11-3 and 5-2 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference doubleheader sweep at Delaware State University on Sunday.
 
Rodgers batted .556 for the week and finished with 10 RBI in the three-game sweep. Fellow freshman Makiya Graves extended her hit streak to nine games with three hits on the day as she finished the three-game set leading NCCU with eight total base knocks and a .667 batting average.
 
The Eagles remained undefeated in the league play and their 8-0 league start is the best conference start since joining the MEAC at the beginning of the 2011-12 season. NCCU (10-22 Overall) has now swept its three-game league series against Delaware State (6-18, 2-6) for a second straight year.
 
NC Central will next play a three-game MEAC series at Howard University (Washington, D.C.) on Friday-Saturday, April 7-8.
 
GAME ONE: NC Central 11, Delaware State 3 (5 Innings)
 
Rodgers drove in three runs and junior Ivory Jones had a team-high three hits as the Eagles scored in all five innings to secure their second-straight win by the eight-run rule.
 
The Eagles plated one run in each of the first three innings with Rodgers driving in a pair of runs. Rodgers gave NCCU its first lead with an RBI-single and then she leveled the score, 3-3, with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.
 
NCCU then pulled ahead for good with five more runs in the top of the fourth inning. The big frame featured a two-run triple down the right-field line by freshman Takia Nichols. The Eagles tacked on three more runs in the fifth to cap the scoring, including another run-producing single by Rodgers and a solo home run by junior Imara Harrell, her first home run of the season.
 
The maroon and gray finished with a 10-3 hit advantage. Harrell and Graves matched Rodgers with two hits apiece. Junior Maegan Garrison chipped in two RBI.
 
Sophomore Ashanti Eubanks had one of her best games of the season, not allowing an earned run in the complete-game victory.
 
GAME TWO: NC Central 5, Delaware State 2
 
NC Central secured its eighth consecutive MEAC victory with Eubanks (4-9) once again taking the pitchers circle for the visitors. Eubanks notched her second complete-game triumph of the day and she once again did not allow an earned run against the Hornets.
 
Eubanks improved to 3-0 with a save against MEAC competition this campaign.
 
After the Hornets got an unearned run in the first, Rodgers continued her hot weekend with a two-run single into the gap in right field to put the Eagles in front. Garrison then added her sixth home run of the season, a two-run shot to left in the fourth to increase NCCU's advantage to 4-1. The two teams traded runs in the fifth, with Jones knocking in the maroon and gray run with a single.
 
NCCU racked up an 11-3 hit surplus on DSU with Harrell, Nichols and Garrison all hitting safely twice. Garrison and junior Jaylah Barr both scored twice.
 
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