Baseball Opens Season with 9-5 Win over Towson

NORFOLK, Va. - 's Old Dominion (1-0, 0-0 C-USA) baseball team earned its first win of the 2020 season with a 9-5 victory over Towson at the Bud Metheny Baseball Complex.

After Towson (0-1, 0-0) clawed back into the Monarch lead with two runs in the seventh, ODU answered with two more runs and did not allow the Towson offense to score in both the eighth and ninth innings.

"It was a good ballgame. Probably a closer game than 9-5. We got a couple in the bottom of the eighth to break it open," explained head coach . "I thought we played ok. I know the guys were excited offensively. It wasn't a great day to hit and we scored nine runs having said that but the game was won because we played better…