NORFOLK, Va. – The Norfolk State baseball team looks to continue its recent momentum this weekend, when the Spartans (7-10, 3-0 MEAC North) put their seven-game winning streak on the line in a three-game road series at Maryland Eastern Shore (3-18, 0-3). 

Game times are 3 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, Maryland. The series begins a stretch of 12 straight road games for NSU.

Live stats and live video for each game will be provided through the Maryland Eastern Shore web site, www.easternshorehawks.com. Links are also available on the NSU baseball schedule web page and at the top right of this story. 

Scouting the Spartans
NSU opened MEAC Northern Division play in style with a three-game sweep of Delaware State last weekend, winning by scores of 8-5, 7-2 and 9-0. NSU starting pitchers Chase Anderson, Ridge Walker and Jonathan Mahoney each pitched at least eight innings in their respective starts. Mahoney pitched a six-hit shutout, NSU's first since 2017, and earned MEAC Pitcher of the Week honors in Sunday's 9-0 win.

Alsander Womack led the charge at the plate with an 8-for-12 weekend that raised his average to a MEAC-best .452, good for 10th in the nation through Wednesday's games. Womack drove in four runs and freshman outfielder Dionte Brown scored four times. Brown also swiped four bases last week en route to MEAC Rookie of the Week accolades.

They haven't been the only catalysts at the plate, however. Both Caleb Ward (March 12 at Longwood) and Kam Holland (Sunday vs. DSU) have driven in six runs in a game during the team's win streak. As a team, NSU is batting .345 during its seven-game winning streak, increasing the team's season average to .253 – second-best in the MEAC.

Scouting the Hawks
Maryland Eastern Shore dropped a pair of mid-week games at Wofford on Tuesday and Wednesday by scored of 9-0 and 13-5. Those defeats stretched the Hawks' losing skid to eight games.

MDES opened MEAC Northern Division play with three losses at Coppin State last weekend, by scores of 12-2, 17-5 and 9-2. 

Junior D.J. Doherty, one of many newcomers for the Hawks this year, paces the team with a .273 batting average. Infielder Dillon Oxyer has a team-best seven runs batted in. Nineteen different Hawks have started at least four games in the field.

The pitching staff is led by Dwayne Marshall, who has all three pitching wins for MDES. He is 3-2 on the year with a 3.81 ERA. His 36 strikeouts (in 26 innings pitched) are the second-most of any MEAC pitcher. Marty Tolson has also been strong on the hill, with a 3.46 ERA.