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Temple Takes Series From Richmond With Sunday Win
04/13/2008 | Baseball
April 13, 2008
AMBLER, Pa. - Three early runs and five errors were costly for the Richmond baseball team, which dropped a 11-1 decision to Temple Sunday afternoon in Ambler, Pa. The Owls struck for 11 runs on 16 hits in taking the rubber-match of a three-game Atlantic 10 series. Richmond is back in action Tuesday night with a 7 p.m. game versus cross-town rival VCU at The Diamond.
The loss dropped the Spiders to 15-19-1 overall and back to .500 in A-10 play at 6-6, while the Owls improved to 16-16, 8-4.
A game after being bottled up by Matt Mongiardini, his brother Mike repeated the deed by limiting the visiting Spiders to just a run on four hits in seven innings to pick up the victory. Mongiardini worked his way out of trouble in both the first and third innings, but cruised after that.
The Spiders manufactured their lone run of the game in the sixth, making the score 7-1. Billy Barber singled, moved to second on a wild pitch and an infield error moved him to third. With one out, a Derek Boliek sacrifice fly to left plated Barber.
Temple scored all it would need in the first inning, pounding out five hits to score three runs on starter Jared Bard. Sean Barksdale and Mike Kelch each drove in runs for Temple, which doubled its all-time win total over the Spiders in the all-time series (11-4).
Bard was dealt the loss, giving up five runs (four earned) with nine hits in four innings. Hank Coogan, Austin Reilly, Barber and Evan Stehle had each of Richmond's four hits.
Richmond threatened in the first, loading the bases with two outs thanks to a base hit by Coogan and a pair of hit-by-pitches to Stehle and Barber. But Mongiardini got down 3-0 in the count to Mike Mergenthaler and battled back to work the freshman into an inning-ending line-out to left.
Two more Spiders reached with one out in the third, but Mongiardini locked in to retire both Ryan Metzroth and Barber and end another threat. The Temple starter went 5.1 innings and allowed just a run on three hits with three strikeouts to earn the victory.
The Spiders return to action Tuesday night, putting the final touches on a season-long nine-game road swing at The Diamond versus cross-town VCU. First pitch is set for 7 p.m. in downtown Richmond and the game can be heard live on ESPN Radio 950.
