HAMPTON - Matt Phoebus singled up the middle in the bottom of the ninth inning to cap a five run frame and walk off Virginia State as The Apprentice School baseball team earned a split in its Tuesday doubleheader against the Trojans to finish the regular season.

After falling 14-1 in five innings in the day's opening game, the Builders found themselves down early in game two after a sacrifice fly in the second inning for VSU. Apprentice answered in the bottom of the inning, loading up the bases before Kyle Whitlock was hit by a pitch to bring home the tying run.

The Trojans scored again in the third, but from there, Logan Earley shut the door, not allowing another run through regulation. The Builders would eventually tie things up at 2-2 in the fifth, drawing a walk with the bases loaded.

After neither team gained an advantage through seven innings, VSU plated a pair in the top of the eighth before the Builders responded with a Caleb Russell RBI single that tied it up at 4-4, forcing another extra inning. The Trojans found four runs in the ninth, but the Builders never quit, scoring on another bases loaded walk, a Caleb Daugherty RBI single, a Riggs Ellis two-RBI single and the Phoebus walk off single.

The Builders will now turn their attention to the NSAC Tournament this weekend, starting with a 3 p.m. matchup with MACU on Friday to open the tourney.