Daytona Beach, Fla. (May 19, 2011) --- The Delaware State baseball team is one game from elimination in the 2011 MEAC Tournament after an 11-1 loss to Norfolk State at Jackie Robinson Park this afternoon.

Catcher Chris Warren was 4-for-4 with three runs batted in, while James Taylor, John Lynch and John Rasberry drove in three runs each for the Spartans.

Troy Drummond singled in Delaware State lone run in the bottom of the seventh inning. DJ Miller had two of the Hornets' six hits.

DSU was outhit 11-6 in the contest. The Hornets also committed three errors and left 10 runners on base.

The teams combined for just two hits and neither could score in the first three innings. Norfolk State took a 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Chris Joyce in the bottom of the fourth.

The Spartans scored three runs in the fifth to stretch their lead to 4-0. The big blow in the inning was a two-run homer by Taylor off Delaware State starter Matt McClain (4-8).

Rasberry singled in two runs in the seventh to give NSU a 6-0 lead.

Delaware State scored its run when Brandon Crist reached base on an error and later scored on Drummond's two-out single in the seventh.

Norfolk State blew the game open with five runs in the eighth. The game was halted after the Delaware State eighth due to the 10-run rule.

Starter Ryan Shook (4-3) allowed four hits and an unearned run, while striking out nine, to get the win for the Spartans.  

McClain, who tossed a three-hit shutout against Norfolk State on April 23, was touched up for six runs on nine hits to take the loss for the Hornets.  

Delaware State will return to action on Friday (May 20) at 10:00 a.m. when it tries to stave off elimination against the winner of Thursday evening's contest between Maryland-Eastern Shore and North Carolina A&T.