EAST GREENSBORO – The North Carolina A&T Aggies fell to the Longwood Lancers, 11-8, inside War Memorial Stadium in Big South Conference baseball action Saturday afternoon. 

The loss drops A&T to 9-13 overall and 0-2 in league play. 

For the second day in a row, the Lancers (11-12, 4-1) plated two runs in the top of the first inning. On Saturday, first baseman Hunter Gilliam hit a two-run home run over the center field wall. 

Longwood kept scoring over the next two innings suit in the next two innings. Jack Schnell smacked a two-run homer in the second to put the Lancers up 4-0, but the Aggies responded in their second with three runs. 

With runners at the corners, sophomore shortstop Alex Reyna singled through the left side to score junior third baseman Anthony Hennings from third. Then, freshman catcher Canyon Brown launched a double off the left center wall to score both Reyna and sophomore center fielder TJ Ash to cut the deficit to 4-3. 

Longwood picked up two more runs in the third, both unearned courtesy of a fielding error on A&T second baseman Alec Seaton, to extend its lead back to three, 6-3. 

Redshirt sophomore right-hander Logan Jarosz (L, 2-3) got the nod on the mound for the Aggies but was only able to go 2.1 innings due to four hits and five runs from the Lancers. 

Trailing 6-3, Brown stepped up to the plate again with Seaton on second and roped a single to right center to score Seaton. Brown had an outstanding day, coming just a home run short of the cycle and going 3-for-3 with a career-high six RBI. 

The Lancers scored four more runs across the fifth and sixth, highlighted by an RBI double from Eliot Dix, to make it 10-4. 

Brown came back up to bat in the sixth with Reyna on second and Seaton on first. He tattooed a fastball to the opposite field and down the right field line. The ball rolled into the outfield corner, allowing both runners to score as Brown reached third with a stand-up triple. 

The Aggies could not get that critical hit to get them over the hump; however, stranding nine runners on base after stranding 11 yesterday. 

Kevin Warunek (W, 3-0) got the win for Longwood on the mound, going five innings and allowing six hits on four runs. Sean Gibbons (SV, 1) entered the game with the score 11-8 and turned in 2.1 innings of work, and gave up just one hit to earn his first career save.