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Bright, Bailey Help Spartans Take Series from FAMU with 9-5 Win

Chase Bailey's 3-Run Double Broke Open the Game as NSU Topped FAMU

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NORFOLK, Va. – Quinn Bright (Virginia Beach, Va.) worked eight solid innings for his fifth win of the year, and Chase Bailey (Roanoke, Va.) was 2-for-4 with three RBI to help Norfolk State win the rubber game of a three-game set with Florida A&M, 9-5, on Sunday afternoon at Marty L. Miller Field.

The win moves NSU over .500 for the year, at 20-19 overall, 7-10 in the MEAC. The Spartans have now won at least 20 games in three straight years for the first time since 1998-2000.

Bright scatted six hits and struck out five to improve his record to 5-5 on the year, while Bailey had the biggest hit of the day, a three-run double that gave the Spartans some breathing room in the fifth.

FAMU took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second. Corey McFadden led off the inning with a single and stole second base. Thaddous McBurrows knocked him in with a single to right field.

But the Spartans responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth. After a Rattler error, a hit batter and a walk loaded the bases, Ryan Wiggins (Hayes, Va.) hit a two-out, two-run single to give NSU a 2-1 lead.

NSU extended its lead to 7-1 by scoring five times in the fifth inning, all with two outs. TiQuan Griffin (Florence, S.C.) and Jerrod Farley (Chester, Va.) started the frame with back-to-back infield singles. With two outs, a FAMU error allowed Griffin to score. FAMU starter Anthony Espin then walked John Boyd III (Hempstead, N.Y.) to load the bases. Bailey followed with a bases-clearing, three-run double to left-center. Chris Joyce (Chesapeake, Va.) made it 7-1 with an RBI single to left, scoring Bailey.

NSU scored twice more in the sixth. Griffin, who reached on the first of four FAMU miscues in the frame, stole third and scored on another error. John Lynch (Newport News, Va.) hit an RBI single for a 9-1 NSU edge.

FAMU scored four unearned runs in the ninth inning, thanks to a pair of infield hits and three NSU errors. In all, there were 11 errors in the contest.

Bailey, Griffin, Farley and Brad Stephenson (Chesapeake, Va.) scored two runs apiece for NSU.

Espin (3-5) took the loss for FAMU, allowing six hits and nine runs, all unearned, in five-plus innings. Timothy Schalch and Steve Cunningham had two hits each for the Rattlers.

NSU hosts Richmond on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.

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