ASHLAND, Va. – Senior
Grayson Bush (Charlottesville, Va./Monticello) had four hits and junior
Sam Slevin (Virginia Beach, Va./Frank Cox) recorded his seventh save as the 20th-ranked Randolph-Macon baseball team held on for a 6-3 ODAC win over Lynchburg on Wednesday afternoon.
The Basics:
Score: Randolph-Macon 6, Lynchburg 3
Venue: Hugh Stephens Field at Estes Park
Records: RMC 21-9, 13-4 ODAC; LYN 21-12, 10-7 ODAC
How It Happened:
- The Yellow Jackets started the scoring in the bottom of the first. Freshman Jon Quici (Paoli, Pa./Conestoga) drew a leadoff walk, went to second on a one-out single by senior Myles Webb (Norfolk, Va./Granby) and came home on a base hit by junior Chaz Harvey (Charlottesville, Va./Miller School) to give the home team a 1-0 lead.
- RMC added to its lead in the second. Senior Matt Myers (Hampstead, Md./Manchester Valley) had a leadoff homer to left to push the advantage to 2-0. It was his first long ball of the season. Bush followed with a double. Sophomore Jordan Hill (Norfolk, Va./Granby) singled to move Bush to third and took second on the throw. Sophomore Carter Schmitt (Glen Allen, Va./St. Christopher's) singled to knock in Bush and Hill, making it a 4-0 contest.
- The Yellow Jackets put up another crooked number in the fourth. Schmitt singled to left and went to third on a double by Webb. With two away, freshman Zach Wernoski (Chapel Hill, N.C./East Chapel Hill) singled to drive in both runners to make it 6-0.
- The Hornets tallied two in the sixth and one in the eighth but fell 6-3.
By The Numbers
- RMC is 13-4 in ODAC play, alone in first place in the conference standings.
- The Yellow Jackets are 19-0 when leading after seven innings.
- Slevin pitched 2.0 innings with one hit, no runs, no walks and one strikeout. He has seven saves, one away from the program record for saves in a season.
- Sophomore Colin Casey (Herndon, Va./South Lakes) was the starter and winner for RMC, going 4.0 scoreless innings with one hit, five walks and four strikeouts to improve to 3-1.
- Bush went 4 for 4 with a double and a run. He has reached base safely in 11 straight plate appearances over the past three games with seven hits and four walks. Bush has 94 career walks, the fourth-highest total in program history.
- Schmitt had two hits, two RBI and one run. He has reached base safely in 12 straight games.
- Myers and Webb both had two hits. Webb leads the team with 16 multi-hit games.
- Wernoski had one hit and two RBI. He has reached base safely in 27 straight games.
- The Yellow Jacket defense had several outstanding plays in the field. Quici had a long run on a fly ball to end the second. He also had catches to end the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Sophomore Nathan Chen (South Riding, Va./Freedom) had a pair of diving catches in right to minimize innings. Bush had a long throw from the hole at short to nail a runner at first and keep two runners from scoring. Wernoski caught a screaming line drive at third to end the fifth and strand three Hornets.
Up Next
RMC will host Eastern Mennonite on Saturday, April 20, in a noon ODAC doubleheader on Hugh Stephens Field at Estes Park. It will be Dugout Club Day as well as Gregg Waters Day.
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