Final Score: Davidson 14, VCU 10
Winning Pitcher: Bennett Flynn (4-0)
Losing Pitcher: Zachary Peters (2-5)
Location: Davidson, N.C. (Wilson Field)
Records: VCU 23-25 (9-9), Davidson 26-19 (12-5)
 
The Short Story: VCU Baseball scored eight runs over the final two innings, but an eighth-inning explosion by Davidson created a deficit that VCU could not overcome as the Rams dropped the final game of the weekend Atlantic 10 series.
 
LEADING OFF: 

• VCU cut into Davidson's lead with the two-run eighth inning, getting within one run of the Wildcats. But Davidson would score nine runs in the bottom half to pull away for good.
• The Rams showed fight and grit with a sixth-run ninth, but the lead Davidson had built thanks to the bottom half of the eighth was too much for VCU to come back from.
• Logan Amiss had his second-straight three-hit day, going 3-for-4 with a home run, a double and two runs scored.
• AJ Mathis knocked in a pair of runs and scored two of his own from the leadoff spot.
• Nic Ericsson smashed a home run and scored a pair of runs.
• Brandon Eike had a four RBI day, scoring a run of his own and hitting his second-career triple.
• Zachary Peters got the start, going 3.2 innings giving up four earned runs.
• Brian Curely tossed four frames, giving up just two hits and he allowed just two earned runs.

HOW IT HAPPENED: 

• Davidson opened the scoring in the second, putting three across to open up an early 3-0 lead.
• The Rams had an answer, after fouling off the first pitch Amiss saw what he wanted. Crushing the next pitch off the top of the scoreboard in right field to get VCU on the board.
• The Wildcats added two in the fourth, to build their lead out to 5-1.
• Behind Curley the Wildcats would not score again until the eighth as over the next three frames VCU held Davidson scoreless as they battled back.
• Ericsson's home run, a blast to left field which bounced off the top of the wall, came with two outs in the fifth to make it 5-2.
• Courtesy of Ericsson's 18th base runner thrown out (fifth inning) and Curley's work Davidson would leave four base runners on from the fifth to the seventh.
• In the top half of the eighth VCU cut deeply into the Davidson lead, knocking in two runs when Eike (Griffin Boone) and Will Carlone (Mathis) each hit sacrifice files to make it 5-4.
• Unfortunately for VCU just as quickly as they got within a run the Wildcats pulled away. The play that started the frame was a throwing error from Curley, who had tried to make a play at second and from there Davidson would go on to score nine runs in the frame.
• VCU did not go away quietly, in the top half of the ninth the Rams opened up for six runs, getting RBIs from AJ Mathis (two), Eike (three) and Carlone. But despite not bowing out without a fight, the lead Davidson built in the eighth was too much and the Rams fell 14-10 to drop the weekend series.

UP NEXT: The Rams remain on the road for a midweek game at Longwood, with that game set for Tuesday, May 9 at 6 p.m. VCU then returns home for its final home weekend of the season when they welcome cross-town rivals Richmond from May 12-14.

SENIOR DAY: Sunday is senior day and the Rams will honor their seven seniors; Scottie O'Bryan; Mathis; Mason Delane; Jacob Selden; Justin Walton; Carlone; Art Schoenstadt.