May 6, 2007

Box Score

AMHERST, Mass. - The Richmond baseball team defeated Massachusetts 6-4 Sunday to win the Atlantic 10 series and improve to 16-5 in conference play.

Josh Horn earned the win, going six innings, allowing five hits and two earned runs. Horn walked just one and pitched six scoreless innings, but Massachusetts put the first three runners on in the seventh and all three would score. The Minutemen added one more run in the seventh to cut Richmond's 6-0 lead to 6-4.

Richmond junior closer Brian Alas pitched the final 2 1/3 innings, allowing just one hit and no runs to notch his 12th save of the season.

Senior Alex Wotring went 2-for-5 with two RBIs and sophomore Victor Croglio went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and one batted in. Senior Vince Riggi went 2-for-4 with a RBI, senior Matt McKenna went 2-for-5 and senior Benji Marshall drove in a run.

The Spiders, who improved to 28-20 overall, got on the board in the first inning when Marshall drew a lead-off walk, was bunted over by Wotring and scored on a RBI-single by Riggi.

Richmond made it 3-0 in the second when junior Austin Reilly drew a walk and Croglio singled with one out. Marshall reached on an error by the shortstop which scored Reilly and Wotring followed with a RBI-double to score Croglio.

The Spiders tacked on another run in the sixth when Wotring hit his sixth home run of the season. An infield single by McKenna and RBI-single by Croglio in the seventh made it 5-0 and Croglio scored when Wotring reached on an error by the shortstop for a 6-0 lead.

Richmond returns to action on Tuesday when the Spiders travel to Radford for a 3 p.m. start. The Spiders play at James Madison on Wednesday at 4 p.m.