UVA Baseball: Tough start for Colucci, bats silenced in 6-3 loss to BC

As much as I want to remind myself that it’s only March 9, it might be time to start to worry about our UVA Baseball team.

Boston College pounded Sunday starter Joe Colucci, and the Eagles shut down a Virginia offense that scored 22 runs on Saturday with a staff day, on the way to a 6-3 series-clinching win at The Dish.

First, to Colucci: making his first start of the season, the JUCO transfer was charged with five runs, four earned, on six hits in three innings of work.

He left down 5-1, and it got to 6-1 on an unearned run off Dean Kampschror in the fourth.

Virginia (9-5, 1-2 ACC) got two runs back in the bottom of the fourth, on a Trey Wells sac fly and a James Nunnallee RBI single.

The ‘Hoos got baserunners – three hits, a couple of walks, a hit batter – but couldn’t get anything out of anything after the fourth.

Again, on a BC staff day.

Colucci (0-1, 10.12 ERA) took the loss.

Up next for Virginia: a trip to Fredericksburg to face Maryland (8-7, 1-2 Big Ten) in the home park of the Low-A Fredericksburg Nationals on Tuesday.