Score: VCU 19, Longwood 2
Location: Richmond, Va. (The Diamond)
Records: VCU 5-19 (0-6 A-10), Davidson 9-13 (5-1 A-10)
 
THE SHORT STORY: VCU baseball scored the most runs since March 2023 in a statement seven-inning victory over Longwood Tuesday evening at The Diamond. The Rams worked up a 13-0 lead in the first two innings with a 10-run second frame and didn't look back, securing a 19-2.
 
LEADING OFF:

• VCU combined for a season-high 19 runs, 18 RBI, 13 hits at the plate, while striking out just six times
• Nick Frers, Jack Hoeymans, Cooper Campbell and Elijah Coston combined to allow just three hits and one earned run from the Lancers, both the second-fewest this season
• Nate Kirkpatrick went 3-4 and scored three runs
• Jacob Lee had six RBI, eclipsing his own previous team-high five, and belted the Rams' first triple of the year as one of his two hits
• Nick Flores and Casey Kleinman each notched a pair of hits, while Trent Adelman and Flores had three RBI apiece
• Kleinman scored four runs in the game, the first Ram to achieve the feat since AJ Mathis against George Washington last season
• Adelman blasted his second career home run, and his second in three games
• VCU's 10 runs in the second were the most in an inning since the Rams scored 12 against Maryland on Feb. 28 of last season
• The Rams snapped a nine-game losing skid with their first midweek win of the season
• VCU split the season series with 1-1

 
HOW IT HAPPENED:

• Lee led off the game for VCU with a full-count walk and came around to score on a wild pitch, opening up the Rams' run barrage
• Adelman lifted his second home run of the year to left field as he brought Flores home for a 3-0 lead in the first frame
• VCU opened the floodgates in the second inning, putting up a 10-spot, which featured five hits, four walks and a hit-by-pitch by a Rams lineup that batted around
• Kleinman opened the inning with a single and Kirkpatrick reached on a Lancers error before the pair scored on an Adrian Jimenez single, the duo also scored with Seth Werchan on Lee's bases-loaded triple to close out the frame
• Longwood scored its only runs of the game in the top of the fourth, aided in part by a fielding error by the Rams before VCU placed five more runs on the board in the home half of the inning
• Lee drove in Kleinman on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth inning for his sixth RBI and the Rams' 19^th and final run of the contest
• Campbell and Coston each tossed a hitless frame in the sixth and seventh innings, respectively, to close out the run-rule victory for VCU, 19-2

 
UP NEXT:
The Rams will continue their homestand into the weekend as they play host to Saint Joseph's in an Atlantic 10 weekend at home on Friday-Sunday, March 28-30.