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GREENSBORO – North Carolina A&T baseball had a good week.
The Aggies capped the week Sunday with a gritty 3-2 win over the Georgetown Hoyas at War Memorial Stadium, taking two of three to secure their first weekend series victory. Combined with a midweek win over Gardner-Webb, A&T finished 3-1 for the week and moved to 7-19 overall.
Now A&T hopes to build upon this week as it scuffles and fights to qualify for the 2026 Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Baseball Championship Tournament.
“Going into this week, we had some meetings, and we told the guys it has to be a get-right week,” said A&T head coach Ben Hall. “Whatever is not right – and some of it is not baseball related – we have to get it right, so that we can focus on the baseball. To the team’s credit, we did that. We played well on Tuesday (versus GWU), and we are even more proud of this week because we didn’t play on Friday. We kind of got embarrassed. But again, to the team’s credit, they bounced back.”
The Aggies impressed Saturday offensively to set up Sunday’s rubber game at The War. On Sunday, they relied on graduate right-hander Kobie Cushing (W, 1-1) in relief. Graduate RHP Angel Ortiz started, pitching four innings and allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits, walking three, and striking out four before Cushing entered.
Cushing threw five scoreless innings, giving up one hit, three walks, and striking out four. Before he entered, the Hoyas led 2-0 on a Christian Hamilton solo homer in the first and a bases-loaded walk to Hamilton in the second. The Aggies struggled against Hoyas right-handed starter Kai Leckszas (L, 4-3).
Leckszas pitched a perfect game going into the home fifth before he plucked sophomore Bruce Wyche with a 2-2 pitch. He compounded his problems by walking sophomore JT Taylor before freshman Luis Gomez laid down a bunt. Instead of throwing to first to give Gomez the sacrifice bunt, Leckszas decided to try to throw out Wyche on the force out at third.
Wyche beat the throw to load the bases for junior first baseman Jason Campo, who hit a sacrifice fly to right to score Wyche, cutting the Hoyas’ lead to 2-1. Freshman Caleb Beals stepped in to pinch-hit and reached on a fielder’s choice, but Taylor was thrown out at home for the second out. Leckszas kept the Aggies alive by walking Acevedo on four pitches.
That led to the Aggies securing their first hit of the game and taking the lead for good on a two-run RBI double from junior Marcus Bradshaw. Gomez and Beals scored to give the Aggies a 3-2 advantage.
“In the end, you have to score enough to win, and we scored enough to win today,” said Hall. “The way the game was being played, both pitching staffs did great. Their guys were pitching really well. They were tough to hit. I thought there were some adjustments we could have made throughout the game to do a better job and maybe get some better results on him. But our guys executed in the one inning, and Marcus got the big hit, and you need big hits like that in tight games in order to win.”
Georgetown couldn’t solve Cushing. He worked around walks in the sixth and seventh. After allowing a leadoff single in the eighth to Ashtin Gilio, Cushing retired the next three. With Georgetown down to their last out, Cushing walked Hamilton, putting the tying run on first. Georgetown cleanup hitter Jeremy Sheffield flew out to shallow center, sealing A&T’s first two-game win streak of the season. After 44 runs and 50 hits in the first two games, both teams mustered just five hits Sunday in a pitching duel.
A&T and GWU will get together again on Tuesday, this time from the War, starting at 6 p.m.