GREENSBORO – Now that's how you do Senior Day.
The North Carolina A&T baseball team snapped a 14-game Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) losing streak on Sunday. They defeated one of the best teams in the CAA, the UNC Wilmington Seahawks, 7-2 at War Memorial Stadium. A&T's last conference win came on April 4, in the second game of a doubleheader against Elon at The War. The Aggies are now 13-36 overall and 4-23 in league play. UNCW's loss affects the conference standings. The Seahawks dropped to 28-22 overall and 16-11 in conference play.
Campbell has clinched the CAA South Division. This gives the Fighting Camels an automatic berth into the 2026 CAA Baseball Championship Tournament in Wilmington, NC. UNCW is in second place in the South. The Seahawks are one game ahead of College of Charleston for the final automatic berth out of the South. The top two teams from each division, North and South, receive these berths.
Outside of the postseason picture, the Aggies still had something to play for Sunday. Six seniors—
Andrew Tinsley,
Gavin Sentell,
Kobie Cushing,
Grayson King,
Nick DiCarlo, and
Luis Gomez—were honored before the game. The team then put graduate right-hander
Angel Ortiz (W, 1-4), who was also playing his final game at The War, on the mound.
Ortiz had one of the best starts of any A&T pitcher during the 2026 season.
He pitched 6.1 innings and did not allow an earned run. Ortiz surrendered only four hits, walked three, and struck out four Seahawks. Cushing then came on to pitch 1.2 scoreless innings. RHP
Diego Barrett, who earned his graduate degree from A&T this weekend, finished with a scoreless inning to clinch the win. It was his final appearance at The War.
Offensively, DiCarlo doubled and drove in two runs on his Senior Day. Sophomore
Bruce Wyche had a three-hit game that included a double.
"Today was a day where, whether you are having a good year or it has been going down, you want to see your guys compete at the right level to send the seniors out right," said A&T head coach
Ben Hall. "I was really happy to see the guys do that. It really was from the very first kick. You had a good feeling in the dugout. You could tell Angel was going to go out and sing his swan song and depart the way he did. It was awesome to see."
Sunday's game went into the sixth inning tied at 2-2. Ortiz gave up a walk in the visitors' half, but that was nullified by a caught stealing, sending the game into the A&T sixth, where the Aggies started to pull away. It started with a one-out walk to freshman
Ryan Allen. Allen's walk led to UNCW making a pitching change, replacing right-handed starter Connor Mashburn (L, 4-5) with RHP Clay Masonis.
Masonis walked graduate
Kristian Amaro, another Aggie, in his final home game. After a flyout, DiCarlo stepped into a clutch two-out situation. The senior delivered by roping a double to left field. He scored Allen and Amaro for a 4-2 A&T lead. Cushing then pitched the Aggies out of a jam in the seventh before the Aggies put an exclamation point on the upset win in the eighth.
After a
JT Taylor double, he moved to third on a wild pitch. Gomez reached on a hit-by-pitch. RHP Francesco Cappoci walked sophomore
Reginald Tuggle III on four pitches. The fourth pitch was a wild one, scoring Taylor. LHP Alex Sobol replaced Cappoci and walked DiCarlo to load the bases. After a pop-up for the second out, another wild pitch allowed another A&T run.
After a walk to Tinsley that reloaded the bases, the Seahawks brought in RHP Brady Thompson. Thompson hit junior
Marcus Bradshaw with a 1-0 pitch, forcing in another run. That gave the Aggies a 7-2 lead. Barrett entered the game in the ninth and ended his career with a 1-2-3 frame.
The Aggies close out their season this week, opening a three-game CAA series against CAA North Division No. 2 Monmouth in New Jersey on Thursday. Game 1 starts at 2 p.m. at MU Baseball Field.
