Apr 29, 2021
The Christendom Crusaders came back in a dramatic walk-off win on Saturday to wrap up their season, defeating Mid-Atlantic Christian University 12-10 at home.
The game was the second of a doubleheader against Mid-Atlantic Christian, who won the first game 3-1. The Mustangs immediately continued their momentum from the first game, scoring three in the first inning against the Crusaders before putting two more on the board in the third.
Down 5-0, the Crusaders had an offensive explosion in the fourth inning, scoring seven runs thanks to timely hitting from Stephen Buonocore and Michael Mesch and untimely errors from the Mustangs. In the fifth inning, the back and forth between the Crusaders and the Mustangs continued, with the Mustangs scoring 3 in the top of the inning before the Crusaders tied the game 8-8 in the bottom of the fifth.
“This is a delicate removal of the second floor to review if the first floor is salvageable,” MACU reported on its website. “Current expectation from the insurance company is to rebuild the middle section of Heritage Hall and try to salvage the end sections and first floor of the building.”
Leaders at the Elizabeth City, N.C., school say they are concerned weather may have caused further damage to the building in the three-plus months since the roof’s collapse. Discussions with the insurance company and consultants are ongoing.
Heritage Hall MACU’S main classroom building partially collapsed on Saturday, Sept. 5, as roofing work commenced. The weight and distribution of replacement shingles may have contributed to the collapse. The roof fell into MACU’s three largest classrooms; fortunately the incident occurred when those rooms were empty. No one was injured. Heritage Hall has been closed since the collapse.
know how you strategize to get around that. we don t know either. and it s absolutely ridiculous as if to say the campus isn t in elizabeth city. and it s so frustrating to be disenfranchised and marginalized by a community, you know, this is our home, we re here the majority of the year. and we impact this economy economically. we have a huge presence here. so to say we can t participate in the economic process is infuria infuriating. that s our huge focus, how do we fight this and combat this? there are other colleges in elizabeth city. there s the college of albemarle, and the mid-atlantic christian. at least at mid-atlantic christian, they are not having this problem, they are not having their rights well, they didn t want african-americans to become educated, you know, a predominantly black college, just to keep it completely real. that might be where the tension comes from, from a historical