GREENSBORO – North Carolina A&T tried to overcome another fast start from Northeastern on Saturday, but could not in a 12-5 loss to Huskies in Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) baseball at War Memorial Stadium.

The Aggies managed only four hits in Friday's Game 1, but on Saturday, two players had multi-hit games. Sophomore JT Taylor went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs, and senior Nick DiCarlo was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI. Despite strong games from the leadoff and No. 2 hitter in their lineup, the Aggies dropped to 10-27 overall and 3-14 in CAA play. Northeastern has capitalized on 13 extra-base hits, five home runs, and 19 walks in the series, improving to 22-16 and 12-5 in the league.

Northeastern led 9-0 over the first 3 ½ innings Friday, then built a 10-0 lead after 3 ½ Saturday. Matt Brinker started with a three-run homer in the first, and Tyler Harmony added a two-run homer in the second for a 6-0 lead. Harrison Feinberg's single ended starter Jordan Bright's (L, 1-6) day. Graduate RHP Kobie Cushing replaced Bright on the mound. Feinberg eventually scored on a wild pitch before Cushing shut things down with an inning-ending strikeout of Brinker. Northeastern's third and final home run of the game, a solo shot in the third from Carmelo Musacchia, gave the Huskies a 9-0 lead before a bases-loaded walk in the visitors' fourth inning scored the 10th run for Northeastern. The Aggies offense cranked up from there.

DiCarlo led off the fourth with a single, and Taylor followed with a two-run homer, his second this season, to cut the lead to eight. Northeastern scored in the fifth and sixth to restore a 10-run margin before Taylor's two-out single in the sixth set up Wyche's RBI double.

RHP Joseph Hauser took over on the mound for the Huskies in the seventh, and the Aggies went to work on him. Freshman Ryan Allen reached on a one-out double and came home on an RBI single from freshman Adrian Gonzalez. Gonzalez advanced to second base on the play and moved to third on a Northeastern error. With two outs, DiCarlo brought him home on a single, cutting the Huskies' lead to 12-5. RHP Cooper Maher replaced Hauser and struck out Taylor to end the frame.

A&T threatened again in the eighth when senior Andrew Tinsley reached on an error and senior Luis Gomez put runners on first and second with a single. But a strikeout and a groundout sent the game into the ninth, where it eventually ended on a 1-2-3 inning in the home ninth. Harmony led the Huskies with a 3-for-5 game.

The CAA series concludes Sunday at noon.