Box Score

NORFOLK, Va. – Brant Jones homered and drove in four runs, and Scott Kimble was 3-for-4 with three RBI as visiting Longwood completed a three-game sweep of Norfolk State on Sunday afternoon at Marty L. Miller Field by the score of 14-7.

The Lancers (26-18) broke open a 6-all tie by scoring four times in both the eighth and ninth innings off Spartan relievers.

John Lynch (Newport News, Va.) was 3-for-4 with three runs scored, while Sammy Serafine (Chesapeake, Va.) and John Rasberry (Suffolk, Va.) added two hits apiece for the Spartans (19-27-1) in their regular-season finale.

Longwood got on the board right away with two runs in the first. Casey Havers had an RBI single and Phil Cerreto followed with a run-scoring groundout. 

Cerreto's sacrifice fly in the third made it 3-0 before the Spartans struck in the fourth. Lynch singled with one out, stole second and third bases, and scored on a Chris Warren (Virginia Beach, Va.) groundout.
The Lancers added a run in the fifth on David Smiy's RBI single. Two more came in the sixth, one on an NSU error and another on Jones' sac fly.

But the Spartans rallied with five runs on six hits in the sixth inning to tie the game. Rasberry led off with a single and later scored on a Matt Gwaltney wild pitch. Lynch and Warren followed with RBI singles, and Serafine had the game-tying hit, a two-run single that knotted the game at 6-all.

But the Lancers' offense was too much for the bullpen. Kimble hit a two-run double in Longwood's four-run eighth inning off Spartan reliever Kyle Davis (Gilbert, Ariz.). Havers and Jones added sacrifice flies in the inning, which ended with Longwood ahead 10-6.

NSU got a run back in the bottom of the eighth on a Drew Suttmiller (Chesapeake, Va.) RBI single to make it 10-7. But Longwood put it away with a four-run ninth inning, highlighted by Jones' two-run homer.

Davis dropped to 0-2 on the season by allowing four earned runs on two hits and a pair of hit batters in the eighth. Troy Dickman (3-5) got the win for Longwood, pitching the final three innings in relief.
Kimble and Jones both scored three runs for Longwood. Havers was 3-for-5 with two RBI and Cerreto also knocked in two runs.

Warren and Serafine each knocked in two runs for the Spartans, who were out-hit 14-12.

The Spartans open play in the 2010 MEAC Baseball Tournament on Thursday night at 6 p.m. against Delaware State. All games will be played at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Fla.