Forty-eight Aggies also recognized by the MEAC

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GREENSBORO, April 4, 2007 – The late innings were again unkind to the North Carolina A&T baseball team. Campbell’s Robb Meng’s two-out single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Campbell an 11-10, come-from behind victory over North Carolina A&T Wednesday evening at Taylor Field.

C.J. Beatty went 2-for-4 with three RBI and his fifth home run of the season. Charlie Gamble also went deep for the second time in as many nights. Gamble was 2-for-5 with three RBI. Nick Mayo and Kory Kinnear had three hits apiece.

The Aggies fell to 9-19 on the season, while Campbell improved to 7-24. The Aggies have a big weekend series with MEAC leader Bethune-Cookman at War Memorial Stadium. The Aggies face the Wildcats in a Saturday doubleheader before playing them again on Sunday in front of national audience. Sunday’s game will air live on ESPNU starting at 1 p.m.

On Wednesday, Aggies closer Ron Phelps recorded the first two outs of the inning before giving up the two-out double to Scott, who had broken a 0-21 streak earlier in the game. Meng came to the plate and lined a Phelps offering to right, inches from the reach of right fielder Charlie Gamble to give the Camels the win.

N.C. A&T had led until the bottom of the seventh inning. Campbell  used a three-run burst to claim an 8-6 lead. Back-to-back doubles by Mike Causey and Todd Matthews with one-out tied the game at six before CU rallied for two more with two outs. Carlton Floyd’s single plated Matthews from third and a Jacob Allen bunt base gave CU the two-run advantage heading into the eighth.

The Aggies quickly dashed the comeback with one swing of the bat. They loaded the bases off a single, and a Floyd hit batsman and walk. Hamme came in to relieve Floyd and allowed a run on a Joe Wade sacrifice fly to make it 8-7 Campbell. Beatty then delivered towering opposite field, three-run home run off the Natatorium beyond the left field fence to reclaim the lead for the Aggies at 10-8.

Campbell tied the game in the eighth after the Beatty blast. Scott tripled to start the inning and scored on a Causey infield single to close the gap to 10-9.  With Camels on first and third with two-outs Smith came up with perhaps the biggest of his four hits, brining in Causey with a single for the tying tenth run. Floyd almost gave CU the lead in the next at-bat, but Zach Johnson was thrown out at the plate by Jeremy Jones to keep things knotted at 10.

Gamble gave A&T an early 3-0 lead in the first inning, belting a three-run home run, his third of the season. N.C. A&T scored in each of the first three innings to go ahead 6-3 before Campbell clawed their way back into the game with single runs in the second, fourth and sixth innings before the big finish.