Box Score

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Ryan Montgomery (Prince George, Va.) and John Rasberry (Suffolk, Va.) each hit a three-run home run, and freshman Jordan Egan (Virginia Beach, Va.) earned his first career win with five strong innings as Norfolk State topped host Savannah State 13-5 on the final day of the SSU Baseball Classic.

Rasberry was 2-for-5 with four RBI and a stolen base for the Spartans (2-3-1), while Shane Hoggard (Hampton, Va.) had a season-high four of NSU's season-best 18 hits.

Julius Green gave the Tigers (1-6) a short-lived 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly in bottom of the first. But NSU took the lead for good in the second. Drew Suttmiller (Chesapeake, Va.) tied the game with an RBI single before Montgomery launched a three-run homer off Kevin Herlihy for a 4-1 NSU lead.

The Spartans tacked on four more in the fourth thanks to Rasberry's three-run home run, his first of the season, and Hoggard's RBI single. Rasberry added an RBI single in the fifth and later scored on a Tiger error as NSU stretched its lead to 10-2.

SSU got within 10-5 with a run in the fifth and two more in the sixth. But three Spartans pitched a scoreless inning apiece in the seventh, eighth and ninth. The Spartans put it out of each with three more runs in the ninth. Brandon Hairston (North Garden, Va.) and Juan Herrera (Santiago, Dominican Republic) hit run-scoring singles and Hoggard knocked in another run with a double.

Egan improved to 1-1 on the season. He allowed five hits and three runs, two earned, in five innings. He struck out six and did not walk a batter.

Hoggard finished 4-for-6 while Hairston and Chris Joyce (Chesapeake, Va.) added three hits apiece. Ten different Spartans had at least one hit.

Darien Campbell, Emory Barkley and Dondregius Jackson had two hits each for SSU. Herlihy took the loss after giving up 10 hits and eight runs in four innings.

NSU returns home for a 3 p.m. game on Tuesday against Georgetown.