Spider Baseball Drops 8-3 Decision to Princeton

Monday, March 13

Richmond, Va.

2 PM

University of Richmond

7-9

Princeton

3-8

Princeton

Richmond

03/13/2023 | Baseball

Box Score

RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond Baseball team fell 8-3 to Princeton Monday afternoon at Pitt Field.

Richmond, now 7-9 on the season, will take a quick trip to Farmville Wednesday for a 4 p.m. contest at Longwood on ESPN+, before returning to Pitt Field for a weekend series against Siena.

Richmond opened the game with scoreless first inning performance by Jeremy Neff on the mound, who collected two strikeouts in his first outing of the season. Princeton got on the board in the second, taking advantage of a Spider fielding miscue. The Tigers added four in the top of the third on two hits, two walks, and two Spider errors.

Jason Neff drew a two-out walk in the bottom of the third. Johnny Hipsman extended his hit streak to 10-straight games with a single to right. Jared Sprague-Lott doubled down the left field line to score both and cut into Princeton's lead 5-2.

Jake Michel retired the Tigers in order in the fourth to complete his outing. Michel scattered five runs, two earned, on three hits, two walks and two strikeouts over three innings of work.

Chase Topolski took over on the mound for Richmond in the fifth and tossed three scoreless innings, allowing a hit, and striking out four. Topolski gave up a hit in the eighth before Jimmy Starnes came in. Starnes scattered two runs on three hits, two walks and three strikeouts in two innings of work.