BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Robb Meng blasted a grand slam, his first home run as a Camel, in the eighth inning to propel Campbell (2-10) past Seton Hall (4-6) 9-6 Saturday afternoon at Taylor Field. Meng snapped out of a 0-14 slump, going 2-5 with five RBI to stop the Camel losing streak at five games.

Chris England (1-3) picked up the win for Campbell, allowing two earned runs on three hits in two-thirds of an inning in relief. Tim Dexter (1-1) took the loss after allowing three of the four batters he faced to score in just one-third of an inning. Matt Martinez (0-0) picked up his first save of the season, throwing just one pitch to get out of a ninth inning jam for Campbell.

After surrendering the lead in the top of the seventh, the Camels put together a five-run bottom half, spearheaded by Meng, to take an 8-5 lead. With one out and Blake Lowry on second, Dexter walked Carlton Floyd and Brandon Scott to load the bases for Todd Matthews. Matthews greeted new pitcher Dan McDonald by lining a single to left, scoring Lowry and cutting the Pirate lead to 5-4. Meng strolled to the plate next, and promptly drilled a McDonald breaking ball over the 368 sign in left field to give CU an 8-5 cushion.

In the sixth, Meng tied the game at one by knocking in Scott on a base hit for his first RBI of the day. The cut-off throw was thrown into the first-base dugout by Mike Young, who committed three errors on the day, letting Matthews score from first to make it 2-1. Mike Causey followed Meng with his own run scoring single, putting the Camels up 3-1. Seton Hall starter Sean Black had been cruising up until that point, taking a no-hitter through 5.1 innings before Scott's single.

The Hall answered back in the next inning, scoring four to take a 5-3 lead. Dan Lopez scored singled off CU starter Justin Lilly and was sacrificed to second. McDonald followed with an RBI double, plating Lopez, and Mike Walsh hit his fourth home run of the season to make it 6-5 Pirates. With two outs in the inning SHU rallied for the fourth run, as Casey Hines squirted out an infield single, Young walked and Bobby Dombrowski plated Hines with a two-out double. It was Dombrowski's third RBI of the weekend, all of which came with two outs.

The CU defense weathered two rough situations in the eighth and ninth innings. After McDonald knocked in his second run of the day to make it 8-6, he and Matt Smedberg advanced to second and third on a Floyd wild pitch with no outs. John Walsh then hit a fly ball to very shallow left field, where Meng raced back to make the running grab. Smedberg tried to tag and score on the play, but Meng's off-balance throw was a strike to catcher Bryan Braswell, giving CU the double play, and ending the Pirate threat.

The Pirates tried to make another comeback in the ninth. With Floyd still in the game and the Camel lead at 9-6, the rally was started with one out. Young walked, Bobby Dombrowski singled and pinch hitter Chris Fontenelli walked to load the bases for the Pirates. Matt Martinez was summoned from the Camel bullpen, and on his first pitch enticed Matt Lopez to hit into a 6-4-3 game ending double play.

Despite out-hitting the Camels 16-10, Seton Hall could not get a timely hit, as they left 13 men on base, failing to capitalize with the bases loaded in the second and ninth innings. Seven Pirate hitters had multi-hit days, led by McDonald (3-5, two RBI), Dombrowski (3-5) and Walsh (2-5, two RBI home run). Scott complemented Meng at the top of the CU lineup by going 2-4 with two runs scored.

The Pirates committed nine errors on the weekend, seven of which were by shortstop Young. Young made up for it at the plate, going 7-13 on the weekend with a home run and four RBI.

Campbell's next game is Monday at 3:00 against Holy Cross at Taylor Field. Seton Hall travels to Norfolk, Va. next weekend for a three game set with Norfolk State.