{"id":2205,"date":"2026-04-08T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:55:34","slug":"macu-wins-two-walk-offs-vs-virginia-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2026\/04\/08\/macu-wins-two-walk-offs-vs-virginia-state\/","title":{"rendered":"MACU Wins Two Walk Offs vs Virginia State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. <\/strong>&#8211; Brian Sanchez doubled in two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead Mid-Atlantic Christian to a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Virginia State Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colin Langley led things off on the bump for the Mustangs, allowing just four hits and one run over seven innings, striking out nine and walking none. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanchez, the number seven hitter for MACU, led the way with his game-winning double. The right-handed hitter went 1-for-3 on the day. RJ Cabrera, Dakota Inman, Brian Sanchez, and Julius Burke each collected a hit. Landen Miller had the most plays in the field with nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pitching was strong on both sides. MACU pitchers struck out nine while VSU sat down 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman Jackson set the tone at the top of the lineup for the Trojans with two hits in three at bats. Sam Young went 1-for-3 at the plate and led the team with one RBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second game had similar heartache for the visitors as MACU&#8217;s Burke broke open a scoreless tie in the ninth with a walk off single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cutter Williams\u00a0started things off strong for\u00a0the Herd, giving up just two hits over 7.2 innings, striking out seven and walking three.\u00a0Markell Simmons got the win with one inning pitched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gavin Stevens\u00a0opened the game for\u00a0Virginia State and gave up seven hits and one run (zero earned) over eight and one-third innings, striking out seven and walking none. The Trojans turned two double plays in the losing effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@capture_at_moments?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Capture @Moments<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-group-of-men-on-a-field-playing-baseball-D8RTbxAfcs4?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; Brian Sanchez doubled in two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead Mid-Atlantic Christian to a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Virginia State Wednesday afternoon. Colin Langley led things off on the bump for the Mustangs, allowing just four hits and one run over seven innings, striking out nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macu","category-news","category-vsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}