NORFOLK, Va. – Visiting NJIT scored six times in the last three innings to pull away for the win in game one, then completed a doubleheader sweep of Norfolk State thanks to a 10th-inning sacrifice fly in game two on Sunday at Marty L. Miller Field.

The Highlanders (5-0-1) took the opener 11-5 and the nightcap 4-3.

In game two, the Spartans (0-6) held a 3-2 lead into the late innings thanks to a strong start by Jonathan Mahoney and a sixth-inning solo homer by Caleb Ward. Mahoney went seven innings, allowing just four hits and two unearned runs while matching his career-high with nine strikeouts. He ended up taking a no-decision.

Ward gave the Spartans a 3-2 lead in the sixth, when he led off with a long solo homer through a cross-wind into the trees behind the fence in left. It was his first homer as a Spartan.

But the Highlanders (5-0-1) tied the game thanks to a walk, a single, sacrifice bunt and balk, which allowed Paul Franzoni to scoring the tying run.

NJIT scored the go-ahead run in the 10th. Julio Marcano led off the inning by drawing a walk by NSU reliever Seth Hockett (0-1), stole second and took third on a wild pitch. Matt Cocciadiferro's sacrifice fly gave NJIT a 4-3 lead.

Highlanders reliever Hunter Harris retired the Spartans in order in the 10^th to finish off the win. Harris (1-0) pitched four hitless innings of relief to get the pitching victory.

Ward added an RBI single in the second which tied the game at 1-all, and Brandon Crosby scored later in the inning on a double-steal attempt to give the Spartans a 2-1 lead after three. But NJIT tied the game on Nick Hussey's RBI double in the fourth.

Ward went 2-for-4 with two RBI in the nightcap and had three hits and three runs batted in on the day for NSU. Hussey went 2-for-4 in the second game for NJIT.

In the opener, the game was tied 5-all entering the seventh. But the Highlanders took advantage of some NSU fielding miscues to score twice in the seventh and four more in the ninth to pull away.

In the seventh, David Marcano singled and scored on the first error of the inning, and Cocciadiferro's sacrifice fly made the score 7-5. Cocciadiferro added an RBI double in a four-run ninth as the Highlanders salted the game away.

The Highlanders struck for three runs in the first. The Spartans' first miscue of the game prolonged the inning before Cocciadiferro, Michael Anastasia and Brett Helmkamp hit three straight RBI singles.

The Spartans rallied in their first two times up to bat. Justin Hayes led off the bottom of the first with a triple on the first pitch he saw. Crosby knocked him in with a groundout. Then in the second, Dionte Brown hit a two-run single to knot the score at 3-all.

Cocciadiferro's RBI double and a run-scoring single by Anastasia put the Highlanders back on top 5-3 in the top of the sixth, but NSU again responded. After walks to Crosby and Korey Singh, Stephen Baughan doubled in a run before Ward's RBI groundout tie the game at 5-all in the bottom of the frame.

Brown, Hayes and Adam Collins all had two hits each in the opener for NSU.

Cocciadiferro went 3-for-4 with four RBI in game one and had five RBIs altogether on Sunday for the unbeaten Highlanders.

The Spartans return to action in a 3 p.m. game Tuesday at Old Dominion.