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Nick Flores celebrates winning run in A-10 Championship Final Game One
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Saint Joseph's SJU 36-20
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Winner VCU VCU 35-23
Saint Joseph's SJU
36-20
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Final
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VCU VCU
35-23
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Saint Joseph's SJU 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 2
VCU VCU 2 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 X 13 10 1

W: Peters, Zach (8-1) L: Gaines, Andrew (3-3)

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Winner VCU VCU 36-23
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Rhode Island URI 26-30
Winner
VCU VCU
36-23
18
Final
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Rhode Island URI
26-30
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
VCU VCU 1 5 2 2 0 0 4 2 2 18 14 0
Rhode Island URI 3 2 0 2 4 1 2 2 0 16 16 4

W: Campbell, Cooper (4-2) L: Santos, Manny (2-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

VCU WINS TWO, FORCES A-10 CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL GAME TWO

Game One Score: No. 3 VCU 13, No. 1 Saint Joseph's 3
Game Two Score: No. 3 VCU 18, No. 5 Rhode Island 16
Location: Tysons, Va. (Capital One Park)
Records: VCU 36-23 (20-10), Saint Joseph's 36-20 (25-5), Rhode Island 26-30 (16-14)
 
After completing its win in the suspended matchup against Saint Joseph's at 1 p.m. on Saturday, VCU went on to defeat Rhode Island in a marathon 4-hour, 28-minute marathon A-10 Championship Final Game One, combining for 31 runs across the two contests. VCU forced the second game of the title series against Rhode Island, which will be played at noon on Sunday, May 24.
 
LEADING OFF:
  • VCU's 18 runs against Rhode Island were the most in a conference tournament game in program history
  • Dante DeFranco combined for four hits, five runs and five RBI in the two games, bringing his total in the tournament to eight in each category
  • Jacob Lee blasted his second home run of the tournament, tying the team program record with 66 and tying himself for third-most in a single season in program history (17)
  • Nick Flores entered the program top-10 leaderboard, tied at ninth, in single-season doubles with his 21st of the season
  • Zach Peters earned his third win of the tournament against Saint Joseph's (3-0)
  • Flores and Quinn Maher each had three hits in the nightcap, while Lee and Teige Lethert both drove in three runs
  • Patrick Steitz, who came out of the bullpen for the first time in his Division I career, had the Rams' 500th strikeout of the season among his five against Saint Joseph's
  • Cooper Campbell picked up his second decision of the tournament, earning the win in game one of the final
  • Against Rhode Island, VCU gave up its most hits and runs of the season, but was able to capitalize on 14 hits and four Rhody errors for the win
  • VCU has gone 2-0 in games played over the span of two days
HOW IT HAPPENED:
Game One
  • Everett Vaughan tossed a scoreless opening frame and three VCU hits drove in a pair of runs before the game was suspended with a 2-0 Rams' lead
  • In the resumed contest, a pitchers' duel ensued into the visitors' half of the seventh inning with just three Hawk runs scoring and one VCU run on an Alec Warden double for a 3-3 tie in the middle of the seventh
  • VCU broke the game wide open in the home half of the seventh, plating 10 runs and sending 15 Rams to the plate, headlined by a bases-loaded triple from DeFranco and four RBI free passes
  • Cooper Weygandt went three up, three down in the final inning to advance VCU to the A-10 Championship Final
Game Two
  • DeFranco and Michael Petite set the tone early in the Championship Final, banging out a pair of infield singles to start, the former coming around to score on a Flores double
  • Rhode Island combined for five runs over the first two frames, while VCU used a Rhody error to score a pair before Lee's home run plated three more, leading by 6-5 after two
  • VCU took advantage of free passes and small ball, but three URI home runs in the middle innings gave it the 11-10 lead over VCU through five innings of play
  • Rhode Island held VCU from scoring in the fifth and sixth innings, continuing to add to its run total, until VCU reeled the game back in with a four-run frame in the seventh, aided by three Rhody errors
  • Two more URI home runs left the game tied at 14-14 after seven full innings
  • Lethert drove in two VCU Rams with a single in the eighth, which was promptly answered with a pair of Rhode Island runs in the homer half of the inning for a 16-16 stalemate
  • Aggressive baserunning allowed VCU to advance runners home on a wild pitch and a passed ball in the ninth, with Flores and Warden each stealing bases before scoring the go-ahead runs
  • Campbell shut the door on the win with VCU's second scoreless frame of the game, advancing to Sunday's final game two with a score of 18-16
 
UP NEXT
VCU will play in the winner-take-all A-10 Championship Final game two against No. 5 Rhode Island at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, at Capital One Park in Tysons, Virginia. VCU has split its two games with URI. More information on the A-10 Championship is available at Championship Central.
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