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Hampton Phillips
4
Grambling State GSUBB 10-16, 6-3 SWAC
6
Winner Jackson State JSU 16-10, 4-5 SWAC
Grambling State GSUBB
10-16, 6-3 SWAC
4
Final
6
Jackson State JSU
16-10, 4-5 SWAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Grambling State GSUBB 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 12 1
Jackson State JSU 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 X 6 12 1

W: Spurgeon, Stevins (2-0) L: Dooley, Taylor (0-1) S: Didder, Nkosi (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Curtis Ford, Associate AD for Athletic Communications

GSU Can’t Hold Off JSU, Drops Series Finale 6-4

JACKSON, Miss. | The Grambling State University baseball team fell to Jackson State 6-4 on Sunday afternoon at Braddy Field. 
 
GSU held a 4-2 lead in the sixth, but four unanswered JSU runs were too much to overcome. 
 
Grambling State fell to 10-16 overall and 6-3 in the SWAC while Jackson State improved to 16-10 and 4-5 in conference.
 
Both teams hit the ball well, racking up 12 hits apiece. Four G-Men put together multi-hit games with Martavious Thomas going 2-for-4, Chenar Brown going 2-for-2, Nyan Hayes for 2-for-2 with a triple and an RBI and Shannon Martin going 2-for-4 with a double. 
 
GSU starting pitcher Randy Reyes kept scoring limited, surrendering two runs on nine hits. He struck out five and walked two. 
 
Taylor Dooley (0-1) was charged with a loss after entering in the eighth inning and allowing one run on one hit. 
 
Trailing 1-0 in the top of the fifth, with two outs and runners on first and second, Grambling State's Jaylyn Bennet ripped an RBI single through the left side of the infield to knot the game up 1-1. 
 
After Reyes struck out JSU's first two batters in the bottom of the fifth, a double by Joseph Eichelberger put runners in scoring position. Following a pair of hit batters, a bases loaded walk put JSU back in front 2-1. 
 
Aries Gardner led the top of the sixth with a leadoff walk. An errant throw on a failed pickoff attempt by Jackson State pitcher Erick Gonzalez allowed pinch runner Lamarcus Jones, who entered for Gardner, to advance to second. Hayes brought him around to score with a triple smacked to deep centerfield. 
 
Hayes eventually scored on a wild pitch, giving GSU its first lead of the day at 3-2. With runners on second and third, Trey Bridges extended Grambling State's lead with an RBI single to make it 4-2 in the sixth.
 
After a pair of GSU pitching changes in the bottom of the frame that saw Trenton Shaw and Derrell Fletcher take the mound, JSU scored two runs to tie the game back up at 4-4.
 
Hampton Phillips came in to pitch in the bottom of the seventh. After GSU catcher Chris Marcellus threw out a JSU runner attempting to steal second, Phillips closed the inning with a strikeout of Jackson State's Anthony Brown. 
 
The G-Men had a prime scoring opportunity with one out and the bases loaded in the top of the eighth, but an inning ending double play ended the threat.
 
Jackson State took the lead for good with a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame.  
 
JSU reliever Stevins Spurgeon (2-0) picked up the win. He pitched three innings, giving up no runs on five hits. 
 
UP NEXT
 
Grambling State travels to Fayetteville, Ark. to take on No. 2 Arkansas on Tuesday, April 1. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Vincent Field at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock, Ark. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network+. 
 
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