Monday, March 30, 2009
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne

Methodist Earns Wild 12-11 Win Over R-MC Baseball
(Box Score)

ASHLAND, VA - The Randolph-Macon baseball team rallied from an early 10 run deficit to tie Methodist, only to drop a 12-11 decision to the Monarchs on Monday afternoon in Ashland.

MU (20-7) scored a pair of runs in the top of the second inning, before R-MC pushed across its first run in the third inning when James Bierlein doubled home Adam Carpenter to make the score 2-1.

In the fourth inning, the Monarchs sent 11 men to the plate, strung together five consecutive hits to start the inning and took advantage of two miscues in the field by the Jackets to score six runs and go up 8-1.

With the score 11-1 in favor of MU, R-MC scored six times in the sixth inning, taking advantage of three errors by the Monarchs. Key hits came from Ryan Dickerson who provided a two-run single and a two run homer by Jay Lichter that made the score 11-7.

In the R-MC seventh Dann Woods and Kevin Davis reached base with one out and Andrew Thomas doubleed to score both and pull R-MC within two at 11-9. Jeff Beck followed with a homerun to score Thomas and tie the game at 11.

The game stayed that way until the ninth inning when Brian Goodwin singled to open the frame and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. Goodwin scored two batters later when Brian Inghram singled to deliver what proved to be the game winning run.

Josh Ellwood, who surrendered the single to Goodwin, took the loss to drop his record to 0-2 on the season, while Alex Sholar surrendered just one hit in two innings of relief to secure the win for MU.

Randolph-Macon will be back in action on Wednesday when it hosts Virginia Wesleyan at 3:00 p.m.

-Yellow Jackets-