#25 UVa. holds on for 7-5 win over UR
The No. 25 Virginia baseball team defeated Richmond, 7-5, Tuesday night at Davenport Field. UVa scored a pair of runs in the seventh inning to break a 5-5 tie en route to the win.
Stephen Bruno (Jr., Audubon, N.J.) continued his hot hitting with a 3-for-5 night as he extended his hitting streak to 10 games. One of five freshmen in the starting lineup, Nate Irving (Fr., Yonkers, N.Y.) knocked in three runs for Virginia (24-13-1). Mike Papi (Fr., Tunkhannock, Pa.) homered and scored twice for UVa. Read more
#8 UNC completes sweep of #23 UVa.
No. 8 North Carolina scored four runs in the first inning and never trailed in downing the No. 23 Virginia baseball team 5-3 Sunday afternoon at Davenport Field. The Sunday attendance of 4,422 gave UVa a weekend total of 13,675, the most in program history for a regular-season series.
With the win the Tar Heels (27-9, 12-6 ACC) swept the three-game series and became the first ACC team to sweep the Cavaliers at Davenport Field since Georgia Tech from May 9-11, 2003.
Brandon Downes (Fr., South Plainfield, N.J.) went 3-for-3 and scored twice off the bench for Virginia (23-13-1, 9-9). Stephen Bruno (Jr., Audubon, N.J.) homered and knocked in a pair of runs for the Cavaliers. Read more
#8 UNC tops #23 UVa. before record baseball crowd
The No. 23 Virginia baseball team fell 6-2 to No. 8 North Carolina Saturday afternoon in front of a sold-out, school-record crowd of 5,074 at Davenport Field. The attendance figure snapped the previous record of 5,050, set five times during the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
The attendance figure also topped the regular-season school record of 4,825, set on May 16, 2010, against North Carolina. With the win UNC (26-9, 11-6 ACC) clinched the series and snapped Virginia’s streak of 16-consecutive ACC home series wins, which dated to March 2009.
The series finale is slated for 1 p.m. Sunday. Approximately 1,500 tickets remain for the game; fans are encouraged to purchase their tickets in advance at VirginiaSports.com. The Davenport Field ticket windows open at 11 a.m. Sunday. Read more
#23 UVa. drops extra-inning duel with #8 UNC
Jacob Stallings hit a solo home run in the 10th inning to lift No. 8 North Carolina to a 2-1 win over the No. 23 Virginia baseball team Friday evening at Davenport Field. The UNC victory snapped UVa’s 15-game home winning streak.
North Carolina upped its record to 25-9 (10-6 ACC), while Virginia slipped to 23-11-1 (9-7 ACC).
The contest was a pitchers’ duel throughout. Both starting pitchers were excellent while receiving no decisions. Virginia starter Branden Kline (Jr., Frederick, Md.) worked 6.0 innings while tying a career high with 10 strikeouts. He allowed just an earned run, five hits and three walks. North Carolina starter Kent Emanuel fired 8.0 innings, giving up one earned run, three hits and three walks while fanning seven. Read more
UVa. slugs GW, 16-4
The No. 23 Virginia baseball team scored 16 unanswered runs to climb out of an early four-run hole and defeat George Washington, 16-4, Wednesday evening at Davenport Field. UVa (23-10-1) captured its 15th-straight home victory.
George Washington (12-20) scored four runs in the first inning, but UVa scored runs in each of the first four innings, capped by a nine-run fourth inning, to bounce back and roll to its fifth straight win.
Despite posting 16 runs UVa recorded only 10 hits, but the Cavaliers took advantage of four GW errors, six walks and three hit batsmen. Branden Cogswell (Fr., Ballston Lake, N.Y.) scored four times, while Jared King (Sr., Radford, Va.) and Chris Taylor (Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.) each knocked in three runs.
After allowing only one run in 12.1 innings in the three-game sweep of Wake Forest, Virginia’s bullpen was stellar once again with 8.1 shutout innings and 13 strikeouts. Shane Halley (Sr., Burke, Va.) worked 3.1 innings and allowed just a hit and a walk while striking out three. He earned the win to improve to 4-1 this year. Nick Howard (Fr., Olney, Md.), Nathaniel Abel (Fr., Haymarket, Va.) and Joel Effertz (Jr., Ladysmith, Va.) combined to shut the Colonials out on three hits over the final 5.0 innings.
GW starting pitcher J.T. Wauford (2-3) tossed 2.0 innings, allowing five runs (four earned), one hits and two walks in taking the loss. UVa starter Barrett O’Neill (Fr., Ashland, Mass.) lasted two-thirds of an inning and gave up four earned runs before Halley entered the game.
Virginia spotted George Washington four first-inning runs. Derek Brown led off with a single and promptly scored on a Brett Bowers double, although Bowers was thrown out at second after straying too far off the bag. With two outs Stephen Oswald homered to right. O’Neill then walked Owen Beightol before Jimmy Best hit an RBI double. Ryan Hickey walked, and Ryan Thomas’ run-scoring single gave GW a 4-0 lead and spelled the end of the evening for O’Neill, who was replaced by Halley.
UVa scored five runs over the next three innings but needed just two hits to do so. The Cavaliers chipped a run from the lead in the first on a Stephen Bruno (Jr., Audubon, N.J.) sacrifice fly, scoring Cogswell, who hit a one-out triple. The Cavaliers cut another run from the lead in the second on a Mitchell Shifflett (So., Midlothian, Va.) RBI groundout.
The Cavaliers moved ahead with a three-run third inning. Taylor drew a leadoff walk and moved to second on a balk. After Cogswell walked, Bruno laid down a bunt and reached on a fielding error. King lined a single to center to score a run, and Derek Fisher (Fr., Rexmont, Pa.) then reached on a fielder’s choice, with Cogswell scoring. Mike Papi (Fr. Tunkhannock, Pa.) grounded out to score Bruno.
Virginia broke the game open with a nine-run fourth inning. The first 10 batters reached base safely, and 13 Cavaliers batted in the frame. Facing reliever Eric Lara, Shifflett led off with a single and Keith Werman (Sr., Vienna, Va.) walked. Both scored when Taylor doubled off the center-field wall. After a Cogswell walk, Bruno doubled to left to score a run, and King followed with a two-run triple. Fisher singled King home to push the lead to 11-4.
Justin Albright replaced Lara and gave up a single to Papi and a walk to Brandon Downes (Fr., South Plainfield, N.J.) to load the bases. Shifflett grounded into a fielder’s choice to score Fisher, and Werman and Taylor hit back-to-back sacrifice flies to give UVa a 14-4 lead.
The Cavaliers added a pair of runs in the seventh inning. Cogswell was hit by the first pitch of the inning, and Howard tripled on the next pitch to score a run. Kenny Towns (Fr., Burke, Va.) then singled to right-center to bring Howard home.
Virginia continues its nine-game homestand this weekend when North Carolina comes to town in a matchup of the ACC’s two programs which reached the 2011 College World Series. The Tar Heels currently are ranked as high as eighth nationally and are tied with UVa at 9-6 in the Coastal Division standings. The teams are slated to play at 6 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.
#23 UVa. completes sweep of Wake Forest, 11-2
The 23rd-ranked Virginia baseball team finished off a three-game ACC series sweep of Wake Forest with an 11-2 victory Monday evening at Davenport Field. Virginia (22-10-1, 9-6 ACC) won its 14th-consecutive home game as well as its eighth-straight ACC home contest. UVa also claimed its 16th-consecutive ACC home series, dating to March 2009.
Virginia relief pitcher Kyle Crockett (So., Poquoson, Va.) gave the Cavaliers 4.0 scoreless innings, giving up just one hit while fanning two. Crockett earned the win to improve to 3-2 this season. Justin Thompson (Sr., Danville, Va.) worked out a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the eighth inning and pitched the final 1.2 innings to notch his sixth save. The UVa bullpen allowed just one run in 12.1 innings in the series. Read more
UVa. 4, Wake Forest 1
The Virginia baseball team clinched a series win over Wake Forest with a 4-1 victory Sunday afternoon at Davenport Field.
Winners of 13-consecutive games at home, the Cavaliers (21-10-1, 8-6 ACC) have now captured 16-consecutive ACC home series dating to 2009. UVa will go for the series sweep at 7 p.m. Monday in a game that will be televised on ESPNU as part of the network’s ACC Monday package. Read more
