Friday, April 24, 2009
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne

Daniel Hurls Hampden-Sydney Past Randolph-Macon 10-4 in ODAC Baseball Action
(Box Score)

LYNCHBURG, VA - Hampden-Sydney's Ryan Daniel tossed a 137 pitch, complete game effort, hurling Hampden-Sydney past Randolph-Macon 10-4 in the second day of the 2009 ODAC Baseball Tournament.

H-SC will advance to Saturday night's 7:00 p.m. game against an opponent to be determined. Randolph-Macon will take on Washington and Lee at 11:00 a.m. in an elimination game.

Daniel allowed just four runs on five hits and struck out nine to improve his record to 4-2 on the season. James Bierlein took the loss after going 4.2 innings, allowing four runs and punching out five.

R-MC jumped out to an early lead when in the second inning, Mike Wallace opened the frame with a walk and two batters late came home on a homerun by Jeff Beck to make the score 2-0 in favor of the Jackets.

Things stayed that way until the top of the fourth inning when H-SC struck for its first run of the contest after Chris Martin was hit by a pitch and came around to score on an RBI double off the bat of Nick Price, making the score 2-1.

The Tigers pushed their lead to 4-1 in the fifth, putting together three runs on three hits, including a two run homer by Matt Brown.

The Yellow Jackets cut its deficit in half at 4-3 in the home half of the sixth inning on a two out RBI single by Wallace that plated Greg Meleski.

In the Tigers' eighth, Herbie Williams tripled to lead off. R-MC reliever Josh Ellwood retired back-to-back batters before Brown singled up the middle to bring Williams home, putting the Tigers up 5-3. Hampden-Sydney then got an RBI hit from Luke Swiney and capitalized on a miscue in field later in the inning by R-MC to go up 7-3.

H-SC tacked on three insurance runs in the top of the ninth to secure the victory.

-Yellow Jackets-