Yellow Jackets Baseball Reels in Marlins 9-5

ASHLAND, VA – Behind 16 hits including two homeruns from Charlie Hartt, the Randolph-Macon College baseball team picked up a 9-5 ODAC win over Virginia Wesleyan College on Wednesday afternoon in Ashland.

Hartt put R-MC (16-10 / 9-2 ODAC) on top 1-0 in the second inning with a solo blast. After VWC plated three runs in the next half inning, Hartt cut the Marlin advantage to 3-2 with one out on his seventh homerun of the season.

Mike Wallace followed Hartt with a single that chased VWC starter Daniel Samuels from the game. JC Conway and Bruno Gora then greeted Marlin reliever David Imperato with back-to-back singles that loaded the bases. Wallace came across the plate to tie the game at 3-3 on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Jay Lichter.

After Ryan Dickerson singled to load the bases again, Kevin Davis walked to put the Jackets up 4-3 and Adam Carpenter singled home Gora to give R-MC a two-run advantage. ‘

The Yellow Jackets put a pair of runs on the board in the fifth and the sixth inning to push their lead to 9-3 before VWC rallied in the seventh off R-MC reliever Nick Simons, scoring a run to make the score 9-4. With the bases loaded and one out, Josh Ellwood came out of the bullpen for the Jackets and struck out Hilton Ianniciello and Adam Marx to preserve the lead for R-MC.

Kurt Breitmeyer went five innings to pick up the win for Randolph-Macon. The southpaw allowed three runs on five hits and struck out a pair to improve his record to 2-1 on the season. Ellwood earned the save tossing 2.2 innings, allowing just one run on two hits and punching out two.

Imperato took the loss for VWC after going just one third of an inning, allowing the go ahead run to score in the third inning. Imperato is now 1-3 on the season.

Randolph-Macon will return to action on Saturday at home with an ODAC doubleheader against Emory & Henry College starting at 1:00 p.m.