{"id":1510,"date":"2025-02-03T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2025-02-03T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:40:52","slug":"trojans-swept-in-opening-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/03\/trojans-swept-in-opening-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojans Swept in Opening Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ATLANTA<\/strong> &#8211; The Virginia State baseball team traveled down to Clark Atlanta for a three-game series which saw the Panthers win all three games. On February 1, the teams played a doubleheader with the Trojans losing 3-1 and 11-0, then on Sunday CAU emerged victorious 9-3 in a nine-inning game.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GAME 1 VSU 1 CAU 3&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Both pitchers were cruising through the first five innings. <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gavin-stevens\/5747\">Gavin Stevens<\/a><\/dfn> struck out seven batters in five innings&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then in the top of the sixth <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/thomas-ealey\/5759\">Thomas Ealey<\/a><\/dfn> singled to the pitcher and stole second with only one out; he then advanced to third after a ground out. <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tj-mcgowan\/5745\">TJ McGowan<\/a><\/dfn> then reached on a throwing error allowing Ealy to score&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the bottom of the sixth CAU hit three straight singles to even up the score at one. Then a steal of second and a walk loaded the bases. A sacrifice fly to center brought another run across followed by a single made it 3-1 going into the seventh&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To start the seventh <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jaquan-tucker\/5748\">Jaquan Tucker<\/a><\/dfn> doubled to center, but three straight ground out to short ended the game&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>GAME 2 VSU 0 CAU 11&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Both teams were scoreless in the first. In the bottom of the second a CAU triple brought in the first run before Ealey struck out the next two batters to escape the inning&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the third CAU added three more runs. After that the Trojan pitching staff would hold the Panthers off the board&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the bottom of the sixth Clark Atlanta exploded for seven runs&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Game 3 VSU 3 CAU 9&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the first inning Ealey singled followed by a <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jaden-guthrie\/5758\">Jaden Guthrie<\/a><\/dfn> single got runners on first and second, then an error allowed both to move up a base however the Panthers would get three straight outs to escape the jam&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clark Atlanta would add a run in the second and then three in the third&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/victor-johnson\/5740\">Victor Johnson<\/a><\/dfn> would hit a one out single up the middle before <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/marquis-smith\/5746\">Marquis Smith<\/a><\/dfn> walked. McGowan would then hit a double to deep left field to plate both&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clark Atlanta would double up their run total in the bottom of the fifth&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the top of the seventh Juluis Turner reached via an error. Ealey then hit a two out single to advance Turner to third. Guthrie then walked to load the bases, but a balk on the next batters let all the runners advance and allowed Turner to score. Tucker then walked to re-load the bases, but a strike out ended the scoring opportunity &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CAU would one more run in the eighth inning and the Trojans would go down in the top of the ninth&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story and image courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">govsutrojans.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8211; The Virginia State baseball team traveled down to Clark Atlanta for a three-game series which saw the Panthers win all three games. On February 1, the teams played a doubleheader with the Trojans losing 3-1 and 11-0, then on Sunday CAU emerged victorious 9-3 in a nine-inning game.\u00a0 GAME 1 VSU 1 CAU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-vsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}