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Nate Kirkpatrick at-bat
6
Winner Saint Joseph's SJU 10-16, 4-5 A-10
5
VCU VCU 7-20, 2-7 A-10
Winner
Saint Joseph's SJU
10-16, 4-5 A-10
6
Final
5
VCU VCU
7-20, 2-7 A-10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Saint Joseph's SJU 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 6 8 2
VCU VCU 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 5 10 1

W: GREER, Sam (1-0) L: McGrady, James (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

BASEBALL FALLS SHORT OF THE WEEKEND SWEEP IN SERIES FINALE

Score: Saint Joseph's 6, VCU 5
Location: Richmond, Va. (The Diamond)
Records: VCU 7-20 (2-7 A-10), Saint Joseph's 10-16 (4-5 A-10)
 
THE SHORT STORY: The Rams baseball team fell in its first contest of the week after capturing three consecutive victories, but fell a run shy of completing the weekend sweep of Saint Joseph's. Unable to reproduce Saturday's late heroics, VCU dropped the series finale to the Hawks, 6-5.  
 
LEADING OFF:
  • Adrian Jimenez had his sixth multi-hit A-10 contest in as many games
  • Jacob Lee, Will Henson and Sean Swenson also added two hits apiece in the game, all three notching a double
  • VCU pitchers combined for double-digit strikeouts for the third time in five games, while the offense struck out just five times
  • Nick Frers made his first career weekend start, tying his career-long 3.0 innings and notching five strikeouts
  • The Rams outhit the Hawks 10-8 in the series finale
  • VCU picked up its first conference series victory on the weekend
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
  • The Hawks worked up a three-run lead into the fourth inning before VCU returned with three scoring innings of their own
  • The Rams scratched across runs on a Swenson RBI double in the fourth, Jimenez RBI single in the fifth and a sacrifice fly from Nate Kirkpatrick in the sixth
  • After Saint Joseph's had added two more in the top of the sixth, the visitors led 5-3
  • Playing small ball in the bottom of the eighth, the Rams tallied four singles, including two to drive in runs by Lee and Henson, the latter fixing the score to an even 5-5
  • James McGrady was nearly perfect in his three innings out of the bullpen, retiring the first seven Hawks he faced, but his only hit of the game was the go-ahead homer from Owen Petrich in the ninth inning
  • The Rams weren't able to manage a comeback bid in the bottom of the ninth, going down in order for the first loss of the week.
 
UP NEXT:
The Rams will return to the road with a midweek matchup against William & Mary on Tuesday, April 1 before continuing their trip onto Washington, D.C., to take on the Revolutionaries on Friday-Sunday, April 4-6.
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