WINCHESTER, Va. - For the second straight outing, the Shenandoah University baseball team battled for 13 innings only to fall by a single run.

Friday night, it was USA South rival Christopher Newport outlasting the Hornets in a 5-4 victory.

CNU (17-10, 6-4 USA South) loaded the bases against reliever Taylor DuFrene (2-2) in the top of the 13th before Charlie Hardie drove in Trey Collier with a one-out sacrifice fly to leftfield.

Shenandoah (13-10, 6-7 USA South) had its chances; SU placed runners in scoring position in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings with less than two outs and stranded the runner each time.

David Jenkins gave coach Kevin Anderson's club possibly its best chance when he doubled to start the ninth and Daniel Ziccardy sacrificed him to third. The Captains turned to freshman Kenny Moreland, who then bailed starter Mike Cosby out of the jam by retiring Adam Kuchemba on a groundball to short and striking out designated hitter Sam Fullerton.

Moreland improved to 4-1 on the spring after holding the Hornets without a hit in 4.2 innings of relief. He struck out nine and walked just one as he faced 14 batters.

Shenandoah struck out 21 times in the game and left 13 runners on base in losing for the first time in three conference contests.

Jenkins had two of the hosts seven hits while Ziccardy drove in a pair of runs on a single in the fifth and a suicide squeeze in the seventh.

Jason Moody was 3 for 5 for CNU with Trey Collier, Brad Melton and Hardie all adding two hits. Melton got the scoring started on the better than four-hour evening with a second inning two-run home run.

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These two teams complete the weekend series with Saturday doubleheader beginning at 1:00.