University of Richmond Athletics
University of Richmond
William & Mary
Wotring's Offense Not Enough As Spiders Fall To Tribe
04/24/2007 | Baseball
April 24, 2007
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Alex Wotring was three-for-four with a double and a home run, but the Richmond baseball team fell to William & Mary 13-4 at Pitt Field on Tuesday afternoon. The Spiders will look to maintain their spot atop the Atlantic 10 this weekend when Fordham comes to town for a key A-10 series.
Wotring now has eight hits in his last 16 at bats for the Spiders (25-17), who couldn't overcome a 13-run, 12-hit attack by the visiting Tribe. William & Mary tacked on three runs in the third inning to break a 1-1 tie and never looked back. Wotring's double set up Richmond's first run and his solo homer in the eighth made it 11-3.
"We're a tired ball club right now," said head coach Ron Atkins. "Not to take anything away from William & Mary because they are a very good hitting team. But we left 12 runners on base today. We're just not getting timely hits."
Mike Sheridan had three hits and Greg Maliniak collected five RBI for the Tribe (24-19), who took both games of the series from the Spiders this season. Maliniak's two-RBI single up the middle in the third inning put the Tribe in the driver's seat. He pounded a three-run homer in the eighth to give the visitors some added insurance.
Riggi was two-for-four and scored a run. He's had six hits in his last 13 at-bats and has scored in four straight games. Benji Marshall was two-for-four and Victor Croglio had an RBI double in the eighth. Matt McKenna drove in Wotring for Richmond's first run and Joe White was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to score a run in the sixth.
"Wotring and (Vince) Riggi are really swinging the bat well for us right now," said Atkins. "Now we just have to get ready for the weekend."
Starting pitcher Matt Trent went three innings and allowed four runs (three earned) with two strikeouts and was tagged with the loss. Six different pitchers saw action for the Spiders, including Jay Joines who pitched a scoreless seventh inning and fanned two.
Cody Winslow went five solid innings for W&M, allowing just six hits and an earned run to get the victory.
The three-game set with the fifth-place Rams begins Friday at 3 p.m. The weekend games start at noon. Live video coverage on Spiders All-Access will be available for Saturday's and Sunday's games.
