Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NORFOLK, Va. – Matt Outman pitched a six-hit shutout, Angelo Rosario hit a grand slam and Syeed Mahdi added a solo shot to help Norfolk State win its first game of the year Sunday, 16-0 over NJIT at Marty L. Miller Field. The Highlanders rebounded to take game two of the doubleheader, 9-2, to split the doubleheader.

Outman (1-0) fanned seven and walked none in his third career shutout. His offense racked up 12 hits, eight of the extra-base variety, in the seven-inning affair. The Spartans (1-5) had six doubles, two by Brian Beard.

The Spartans scored twice in the first after back-to-back hits by Alex Mauricio and Roger Hall. Mauricio singled, and Hall doubled off the wall in right. Angel Rosario plated Mauricio with a groundout and Hall scored on a two-out NJIT error.

Rosario doubled and scored while Beard added an RBI double of his own in a three-run third for the Spartans. Mahdi hit a solo homer, his first of the year, in a three-run fourth for NSU. Rosario then blasted a grand slam in a five-run fifth – NSU's second grand slam of the week. Mahdi stroked a two-run double in the sixth.

Mahdi was 3-for-5 with three RBI and three runs scored in the first game, while Rosario was 2-for-3 with five RBI and Mauricio 2-for-4 with three runs scored. Beard knocked in three runs.

In the nightcap, Ian Bentley pitched a complete game with nine strikeouts for the Highlanders, who got three hits from Johnny Malatesta and two hits – including a solo homer – from Bryan Haberstroh.

NJIT (2-3) scored twice in the top of the first, including a two-out RBI single by Malatesta. Beard singled and scored on an RBI triple by Kyle Vaas in the bottom of the second, but NJIT scored at least one run in the third through seventh innings to pull away. NSU's only other run came on an RBI single by Kevin Granger in the fourth.

Devin Hemmerich (0-1) took the loss for NSU, allowing seven hits and five runs – four earned – in five innings of work. He struck out five.

Beard was 2-for-3 with two runs scored in the nightcap, and went 4-for-5 with three RBI on the day. Vaas doubled and tripled in the second game.

The teams play another doubleheader Monday starting at 11 a.m.