Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DUNDALK, Md. – Brian Beard's two-out, two-run double in the top of the ninth inning lifted Norfolk State to a 5-4 win in game 1, and Alex Mauricio homered and drove in three runs in an 8-3 game 2 victory as the Spartans swept a road MEAC doubleheader from Coppin State on Sunday at the Community College of Baltimore County-Dundalk.

The Spartans (26-18, 18-5 MEAC) have won three in a row and six of their last seven. But it took a gritty ninth-inning rally to pull off the win in game 1 Sunday. CSU scored three runs, two unearned due to a Spartan error, to take a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh. NSU went quietly in the eighth, but came back in the final inning. Mauricio led off with a single and a pair of walks loaded the bases to end the day for Eagle starter Devin Sutorius. With one out, Denathan Dukes knocked in a run with a fielder's choice for the second out of the inning.

Angel Rosario coaxed a walk from CSU reliever Andrew O'Dwyer, loading the bases for Beard. Beard lined a 1-0 pitch off CSU reliever Desean Rabb to left-center, scoring the tying and go-ahead runs.

Mauricio moved from third to the mound and held the Eagles at bay in the bottom of the ninth, notching his fifth save of the year.

Beard tied his career high with four RBI. His RBI single in the third gave NSU a 1-0 lead, and he put the Spartans up 2-1 with a fielder's choice grounder in the fifth. Beard, Dukes and Mauricio had two hits apiece in the opener.

Chase Anderson (5-2) picked up the win for NSU, pitching a scoreless eighth inning. Matt Outman, NSU's starter, took a no-decision after allowing four runs (two earned) in seven innings of work. He walked none and struck out five.

The Spartans jumped on CSU quickly in the nightcap, scoring three runs off Eagle starter Aaron Rea in the top of the first. Singles by Rosario and Beard got the inning started. Kyle Vaas walked with the bases loaded and Mauricio hit a two-run double to deep center for the first runs of the game.

George Dragon's RBI single got the Eagles on the board in the bottom of the third, but the Spartans pulled away with five runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Mauricio hit a towering home run down the left-field line in the fourth, his fifth homer of the year, for a 4-1 Spartan lead 

In the fifth, NSU benefitted from two CSU errors to tack on four more runs. Syeed Mahdi capped the uprising with a two-run double, making it 8-1.

The Eagles added two runs in the seventh, but NSU starter Jonathan Mauricio got a fielder's choice to close out his sixth victory of the year. Mauricio tossed his third complete game of the season in the nightcap, scattering nine hits and allowing two earned runs in all seven innings of work. Mauricio (6-2) walked two and struck out four.

Alex Mauricio went 2-for-4 with three RBI in game 2 and was 4-for-7 for the day. 

The teams conclude their series, and NSU's regular-season conference slate, at 1 p.m. Monday.