Box Score   BURLINGTON, N.C. - Needing two win two games to claim the USA South championship, the CNU baseball team got halfway there with a 5-4 win over Shenandoah Sunday afternoon. The Captains will take on the Hornets again at about 4 p.m.
  Pitching on just two days rest, Josh Brinkman limited Shenandoah to just three runs in seven innings, as CNU built a 5-3 lead. Chris Malvagna then shut the door with his fifth save of the year.
  CNU scored in the first inning when Shannon Mark led off with a single and moved to third on Luke Saunders' double. Mark scored on a ground ball by Parker Neal.
  The Captains got another run in the second when Mike Romett singled and eventually came home on a base hit by Drue Vernon.
  After Shenandoah got one back in the third, CNU made it 4-1 with two in the fifth. on a two-run homer by Ben Lenda, his sixth of the season.
  The Hornets closed the margin to 4-3 with single runs in the fifth and seventh innings, but CNU got a huge insurance run in the eighth. Connor Madden singled, moved to second on a ground ball and came across on a base hit by Neal.
  Madden finished with three hits, while Neal, Lenda and Romett had two each of the Captains 14 hits.
  Brinkman got the win, making him 7-3 on the year.

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