NORFOLK, Va. – For the second straight year, the Norfolk State baseball team will play a televised home game on ESPNU. This season, the opponent is Delaware State, which comes to Marty L. Miller Field for a four-game series this Friday through Sunday.
Friday's first game will be broadcast live on ESPNU beginning at 3 p.m. The teams will also play a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Saturday and a single game at noon on Sunday. The final three games of the series will be streamed live on NSUSpartans.com/watch.
This weekend marks the last of three regular-season series between the Spartans (12-27 overall, 9-15 MEAC) and DSU (15-19, 12-12). The Hornets won three of four from NSU in each of the previous two weekend meetings.
NSU-DSU Short-Hops
- NSU enters the weekend coming off a 1-3 series against Maryland Eastern Shore last weekend at Marty L. Miller Field. NSU had 18 hits, matching a season high, in the 17-8 series finale defeat. It was NSU's sixth time in the last 11 games reaching at least 10 hits in a game.
- Designated hitter Jacob Council went 5-for-6 in the series finale, setting a new career high in hits. It was NSU's second five-hit game of the season, following shortstop Brandon Cleveland's 5-for-5 game at Delaware State on April 15.
- Council has elevated himself to No. 3 in the MEAC in hitting, at .355 on the year. He leads the conference in hits (49) and also ranks fourth in the MEAC in RBIs (29), fifth in slugging (.500), sixth in double doubles (nine) and OPS (.924) and eight in home runs (three).
- NSU got strong starting outings last weekend by left hander James Deloatch and righties Matt Stanley and Zac Capps. Deloatch allowed just one earned run in 6.1 innings, his second-longest stint of the season. Stanley picked up his first collegiate win last Saturday with a career-high eight strikeouts and allowing just three hits and two earned runs in 5.1 innings. Capps struck out seven and allowed four earned runs in six innings.
- The Spartans won their first-ever home TV game last year, taking a 9-1 win over Florida A&M on April 30. Deloatch got the win in that one, pitching eight innings. Korey Singh and Ty Hanchey hit three-run homers in that one for NSU.
- DSU is also coming off a 1-3 weekend last week, this one at the hands of Coppin State. The Hornets dropped the finale 18-6 in eight innings. Infielder Miguel Rivera had five hits in the series for the Hornets.
- The Hornets continue to be led by preseason MEAC Player of the Year Trey Paige. He tops the conference with a .390 average and nine home runs, including one in the Hornets' game two win last weekend.
- Nine of DSU's 15 pitching wins have come from Jordan Haddaway (five) and Evan Harris (four). The two rank among the top five in the conference in pitching wins.
