GREENSBORO - After 2 ½ innings on Friday afternoon, the North Carolina A&T baseball team had the first game of its three-game series with the Temple Owls postponed due to rain.

Before the rain delay, the Aggies were off to a slow start. Things got better - much better - for A&T throughout the weekend series. The Aggies returned from the rain delay on Friday to lose to the Owls 13-9 in the first game of a Saturday doubleheader. But they defeated the Owls 6-3 in Saturday's Game 2 and recorded a 3-1 win on Sunday.  

A&T improved to 3-4 after taking two out of three from the Owls.

"We played a good game, especially off the mound," said Sanchez about Sunday's win. "We had another great performance from Brent Moore. That's back-to-back good performances from him. He went eight innings for us and kept his pitch count low and was throwing a lot of strikes. I think he kept them off balance."

Moore threw only 110 pitches over eight innings and surrendered just one run, while striking out three. He did not give up an extra base hit and Temple had multiple base runners on base in only one inning. Andrew Moore closed the game in the ninth. He surrendered one walk, but that was taken care of in a force out as he picked up his first save of the season.

"That was good for our bullpen and our overall pitching staff because we have two games during the week and another series next weekend, so our pitching today kind of saved the bullpen," said Sanchez

The Owls best inning against Moore came in the fifth. Jodan Queja got on with a one-out single, and stole second. An RBI single from junior Elijah Yarborough scored Queja to tie the game at 1.

A&T regained the lead in the sixth as Marquis Riley scored off of a single by Kelvin Freeman. Moore received a little more help in the seventh. Andre McKoy reached first thanks to a walk surrendered by reliever Brant Norlander. McKoy went to second on a stolen base and reached third on an error by Yarborough, the Temple shortstop.

Dylan Hipp rewarded McKoy's hard work with an RBI sacrifice fly to left field as McKoy's run gave the Aggie a 3-1 lead.

 "Offensively we had some key hits, but their pitcher kept us off-balance as well. It was a little bit of a pitchers' duel.  Nikorak was probably their best player, so definitely tipping my hat off to him. It was a good game, back and forth. Defense made all their plays for the most part, there were a couple of tough ones for our shortstop, but Brent Moore kept throwing strikes," said Sanchez.

The Owls did get a runner to third in the eighth inning, but Connor Reilly grounded out to third to end the inning. Cook threw eight pitches to pick up the save.

Luke Tendler went 1-for-4 with two RBI, including a solo home run in the third.

"It was a good performance and good to win the series," said Sanchez. "We were pretty evenly matched, they didn't over power us and we didn't over power them. We are starting to put better at bats together, and hopefully that will carry over to Tuesday and Wednesday."

The Aggies host Appalachian State 3 p.m., Tuesday at War Memorial Stadium before hosting Radford Wednesday afternoon at 3.