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Cooper Campbell delivers a pitch
0
Fordham FOR 21-24, 11-10 A-10
9
Winner VCU VCU 14-29, 7-14 A-10
Fordham FOR
21-24, 11-10 A-10
0
Final
9
VCU VCU
14-29, 7-14 A-10
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Fordham FOR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
VCU VCU 0 0 3 3 0 2 0 1 X 9 11 0

W: Coston, Elijah (2-3) L: HANAWALT, Chase (0-2) S: Peters, Zach (4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

THREE-HIT SHUTOUT SECURES WEEKEND SERIES

Score: VCU 9, Fordham 0
Location: Richmond, Va. (The Diamond)
Records: VCU 14-29 (7-14 A-10), Fordham 21-24 (11-10 A-10)
 
THE SHORT STORY: VCU baseball shut Fordham down in every phase of the game for a loud answer to yesterday's series-evening loss. VCU allowed just three hits in its third shutout of the season and tallied nine runs on 11 hits
 
LEADING OFF:
  • Cooper Campbell made his second collegiate start and second start of the week, going 3.1 one-hit innings of work and tying his career high with five strikeouts
  • First in relief, Elijah Coston picked up his second collegiate win in a 2.2 inning showing, allowing just one hit
  • Zachary Peters earned his fourth save of the season with a two-strikeout, three-inning performance
  • With a single in the second inning, Trent Adelman extended his reached-base streak to 22 games, the longest by a Ram this season
  • Adelman was hit by his 18th pitch this season, tying for ninth in a single season in program history
  • Jacob Lee hit his 12th home run of the year, launching onto the program single-season leaderboard tied at No. 8
  • Lee homered in three consecutive games for the second time and drove in his 50th run of the year
  • Casey Kleinman had three hits in the game and Nick Flores notched a pair
  • VCU compiled double-digit hits for the 10th time this season
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
  • Campbell worked out of a jam to open his first weekend start, allowing the first two baserunners and then retiring the next three by strikeout for a scoreless first
  • After three scoreless frames worked by Campbell, VCU got on the board first with a Lee home run for the third consecutive game, going up 3-0
  • Doubling the lead in the next inning, Spencer Sullivan dropped a high-fly ball into left field for a run-scoring double before Kleinman and Lee tallied back-to-back RBI singles
  • Coston faced the minimum in the fifth and allowed just one baserunner in the sixth to conclude his portion of the three-hit bid
  • Making the most of their outs, VCU scored a pair in the sixth frame on a Kleinman sacrifice fly and Jimenez RBI groundout, taking an 8-0 lead
  • Jimenez and Kleinman added the final run for VCU on a perfectly executed double steal play for the 9-0 score
  • Closing the door on VCU's series victory, the Rams turned their third double play and Peters faced the minimum in the final frame
 
UP NEXT:
VCU will return to the road for the week, kicking off a four-game road trip in Charlottesville, Va., against Virginia on Tuesday, April 29, before continuing Atlantic 10 play at St. Bonaventure on Friday-Sunday, May 2-4.
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