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Richmond Bats Silenced By Seton Hall In Nightcap
03/01/2008 | Baseball
March 1, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Behind a near-perfect game from starting pitcher Sean Black, visiting Seton Hall beat Richmond 11-0 in the nightcap of a doubleheader Saturday at Pitt Field. In the scheduled seven-inning contest, Black allowed a sixth-inning single as the lone base-runner against him. The Spiders' weekend homestand concludes Sunday with a 1 p.m. game versus Bucknell.
Black, a freshman who was a second-round draft selection (59th pick overall) by the Washington Nationals out of high school in 2006, held the Spiders off the scoreboard for the first time in 2008. His offense gave him the early lead and he fanned 13 in earning the complete-game shutout victory.
Chris Cuppia ripped an infield single to the shortstop with two outs in the sixth inning, breaking up the perfect-game bid.
Leading 3-0 heading to the fourth inning, the visiting Pirates (2-4) broke the game open with three runs in the fourth and four more in the fifth. Greg Miller singled up the middle to score two in the fourth and four different RBI singles plated the fifth-inning tallies.
Bobby Abreu, Mark Pappas and Sean Gusrang each collected two hits for Seton Hall. Starting pitcher Jared Bard (0-2) was tagged with the loss for Richmond, which falls to 3-4-1 on the young season.
