R-MC Baseball Splits ODAC Doubleheader with Washington and Lee

Saturday, April 21, 2007
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne

R-MC Baseball Splits ODAC Doubleheader with Washington and Lee

ASHLAND, VA – The Randolph-Macon College baseball team managed a split with ODAC rival Washington and Lee University on Saturday afternoon, capturing game one 4-3 while falling to the Generals in game two by the score of 11-5.

With the split, R-MC is currently 17-17-1 overall, 7-9 in league play and will wrap up its ODAC slate of games on Sunday with a doubleheader at Emory and Henry.

W&L got on the board first in game one when they capitalized on an R-MC error to take a 1-0 lead after one half inning of play.

The score remained that way until the bottom of the sixth inning when Joey Crawford delivered a two-run home run to put the Jackets out in front 2-1.

After W&L scored a pair of runs in the top-half of the seventh inning to go up 3-2, JC Conway singled with one out to get the rally going. Greg Meleski then doubled to put runners on second and third. Pinch hitter Bryan Hannum was then intentionally walked to load the bases.

R-MC then tied the scored when W&L reliever Jeff Pharis uncorked a wild pitch to score Conway and tie the game. After an intentional walk to Mike Wallace, Charlie Hartt delivered a single to score Meleski and give the Jackets the victory.

In game two, W&L jumped out to a 4-0 lead after plating a single run in the first inning and then three runs in the second inning behind RBI doubles by David Miller and Ray Sweeney.

R-MC then cut the lead to 4-1 in the third inning when Conway singled to lead off the inning, then moved to second on a ground out and scored when Chris Dykes singled and the ball was misplayed in the outfield.

The Yellow Jackets then cut their deficit in half in the fourth inning when Crawford walked with two out, moved to second on a Jason Haislip single scored on a double off the bat of Conway.

W&L the pushed its lead to 10-2 with a single run in the sixth and five in the seventh on the strength of an two RBI single by John Ditore and a two RBI double by Sweeney.


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