Aggies held to just four hits

RALEIGH, March 7, 2007 – North Carolina A&T junior Chris Eggers had another solid performance for the Aggies baseball team, but didn’t get the offense he needed as the Aggies fell to N.C. State 6-2 on Wednesday from Doak Field.

The loss marked the Aggies second loss to the Wolfpack. Eggers pitched six innings, gave up just five hits, two earned runs and two walks in six innings of action. The loss was Eggers’ (2-1) first of the season.

The Aggies produced just two hits, two of them coming from redshirt junior Jeremy Jones, who also scored a run. Charlie Gamble and Nick Mayo had an RBI apiece.

The Aggies took an early 1-0 lead on the 28^th-ranked Wolfpack with an RBI single from Gamble, which came preceded a Jones double. The Wolfpack answered in its bottom half of the first as Jeremy Synan doubled home Joe Florio to tie the game at 1.

N.C. State would score again in the second and the fourth to take a 3-1 lead. The Aggies edged closer with a run in the seventh. Nelson Santos started the rally with a walk off of relief pitcher Andrew Taylor. Freshman C.J. Beatty followed with a single to left field. After a Neil Rosser made the second out in the inning by popping up to second, Patrick Oates, who returned from a preseason ankle injury, walked to load the bases.

Taylor walked in a run by surrendering a base on balls to Mayo, scoring Santos from third. But Jones couldn’t come through with the crucial two-out hit as he grounded out to second. The Wolfpack put the game away with a three-run seventh.

Pich-hitter Ryan Howard did the damge with a three-run home run to left field off of reliever Tim Johnson. After getting the lead-off batter on base with a walk, the Aggies went quietly in the ninth.