{"id":2328,"date":"2026-05-01T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:01:38","slug":"atlantis-knocks-out-vsu-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2026\/05\/01\/atlantis-knocks-out-vsu-4-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Knocks Out VSU 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MILTON, Fl.<\/strong> &#8211; Atlantis University broke a tie in the fifth inning and held on to defeat Virginia State University 4-3 in Friday&#8217;s NSAC Baseball Tournament elimination game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atlantis opened the scoring in the first when Adrian Astudillo doubled home a run. Virginia State answered in the third on Luka Gilliam\u2019s RBI single to tie the game at 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AU regained the lead later in the third as Romel Guerrero singled and Enrique Lopez doubled, each driving in a run to make it 3-1. The Trojans responded in the fifth, tying the game at 3-3 on Jaquan Tucker\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atlanteans took the lead for good in the bottom of the inning when Damarian Chung drove in the go-ahead run on a lineout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Lopez earned the win, allowing three runs on six hits over seven innings while striking out five. Gavin Stevens took the loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atlantis collected 10 hits, with Guerrero, Astudillo and Jose Ruiz each recording two. Tucker drove in two runs for Virginia State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tournament games 5 and 6 scheduled for Friday were moved to Saturday morning due to the threat of inclement weather. Play resumes at 9:00 am Central time. Mid-Atlantic Christian and Lighthouse will meet in the day&#8217;s first game, followed by Atlantis and Millennia Atlantic in an elimination game at 11:30 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, MAY 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game 5 \u2013 9:00 AM<\/strong><br>Mid-Atlantic Christian vs Lighthouse Christian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game 6 \u2013 11:30 AM (Elimination Game)<\/strong><br>Millennia Atlantic vs. Atlantis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game 7 \u2013 2:00 PM (Elimination Game)<\/strong><br>Loser Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game 8 \u2013 4:30 PM (Championship Game)<\/strong><br>Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game 9 \u2013 7:00 PM (If Necessary)<\/strong><br>Same teams as Game 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All games are played at East Milton Park, 8680 Randy Brown Road, Milton Florida and streamed live\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lighthousechristiancollegefl\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILTON, Fl. &#8211; Atlantis University broke a tie in the fifth inning and held on to defeat Virginia State University 4-3 in Friday&#8217;s NSAC Baseball Tournament elimination game. Atlantis opened the scoring in the first when Adrian Astudillo doubled home a run. Virginia State answered in the third on Luka Gilliam\u2019s RBI single to tie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantis","category-news","category-vsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","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=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}