TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Apr. 7) – Junior Josh Hancock tossed a complete game, five-hit shutout to spark the FAMU Baseball team to 9-0 win over North Carolina A&T in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Southern Division weekend series finale Sunday afternoon at Moore-Kittles Field.

Sunday's win snapped a seven-game slide by FAMU (12-22, 5-7 MEAC), thanks to Hancock's mound mastery, and the awakened Rattler offense, which struck for five runs on seven hits in the bottom of the first.

The Rattlers, which had managed just 12 hits in the first two games of the series against North Carolina A&T, finished with 13 total hits Sunday. Junior Tucker Rayburn led FAMU with three hits, which included a double, a triple and three RBIs.

Jared Weber, Kaycee Reese and Seyjuan Lawrence each had two hits Sunday, with Weber and Reese each driving in a pair of runs Sunday, while Lawrence and Brett Maxwell each picked up an RBI.

FAMU scored five runs in the opening frame on seven hits, sending 10 men to the plate to seize control of the game early. The Rattlers would score single runs in the third, fourth, sixth and eighth innings to nearly end the game via the 10-run rule.]

Hancock was sharp, fanning five batters and scattering five hits against the first place Aggies (18-14, 8-4 MEAC), who had scored 20 runs on 26 hits in the two previous games Friday and Saturday. It was Hancock's first complete game of the season, and only the second complete game for the Rattlers in 2019.

WHAT'S ON DECK: FAMU travels for a midweek game at Alabama State Tueaday at 5:00 p.m. Central Time, before returning home to start the second half of MEAC play Friday, as they open a three-game series against archrival Bethune-Cookman at Moore-Kittles Field at 5:00 p.m.