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No. 23 Baseball Blasts Radford, 13-1
05/08/2002 | Baseball
May 8, 2002
RADFORD, Va. - The University of Richmond stroked 17 hits and freshman left-hander Tim Rice held Radford to one run in 6.0 innings as the Spiders improved to 42-8 with a 13-1 victory at Dedmon Center Park in Radford, Va. Richmond is one win away from tying the all-time program record of 43 wins set in 1995.
Rice improved to 5-0 after allowing one unearned run and five hits. The Brookfield, Conn. native fanned nine in his fifth collegiate start. Sophomore Bryan Pritz went 3-5 on the afternoon, scored a pair of runs and drove in one. Junior Vito Chiaravalloti, sophomore Matt Craig, sophomore Bobby LeNoir and senior Mike Gula smacked home runs for the visitors.
Chiaravalloti belted his 18th home run of the season in the first, giving the Spiders a 2-0 lead. The opposite field shot scored Pritz who led off the game with a walk. Richmond loaded the bases in the third on three singles but failed to score.
Radford cut the lead in half with an unearned run in the fifth. Kellen Wolford scored on a Daryl Douglass grounder that eluded third baseman David Reaver and bounced into left field.
The Spiders broke the game open in the sixth. Sophomore Chris Dolan led off the frame with a double to left field and after A.J. Board was plunked in the left arm, both advanced on a John Cronin sacrifice bunt. Pritz singled to center and plated Board. A Reaver double to left center scored Board before Craig cleared the bases with his 15th homer of the season, this a three-run blast to center field. The visitors led 7-1 with the five-run frame.
Two unearned runs in the seventh increased the lead to 9-1. One run scored on an error and Reaver delivered an RBI single for the other tally. A two-run homer by LeNoir in the eighth, his second of the season, made the score 11-1. Another two-run pinch-hit homer, this supplied by Gula in the ninth, increased the advantage to 13-1. Gula's shot sailed over the left center wall.
Richmond returns to action at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 9 against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
