Spider Baseball Splits Doubleheader Against Flyers

Friday, May 3

Richmond, Va.

1:00 PM

University of Richmond

21-24, 10-6

Dayton

28-16, 10-5

Dayton

Richmond

Chase Topolski, with his tongue hanging out of his mouth, throw

05/03/2024 | Baseball

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RICHMOND, Va. – The Richmond baseball team kicked off the final month of the regular season splitting Friday's Atlantic 10 Conference doubleheader with the Dayton Flyers. UR captured a 7-3 game one victory, but the ninth inning rally fell short in game two, falling 8-6.

Richmond, now 21-25 on the season and 10-7 in the A-10, and Dayton, 29-16 on the year and 11-5 in league play, will face off Saturday at Pitt Field at 1 p.m. on ESPN-Plus. Richmond will be wearing specialty jerseys for UR's ALS Awareness Game, teaming up with the Peter Frates Family Foundation.

Down 2-0 after a half inning in the first game, the Spiders quickly answered with five runs. DJ Pacheco got the scoring going, plating two with a double to right to tie the game. Jake Topolski scored one run with an infield single to take the lead before a fourth run came in on a ground out. Zach Lass then doubled in Topolski to give the Spiders a 5-2 lead.

The Flyers got a run in the fifth, but that was the closest they got to the Spiders. Jordan Jaffe doubled in a run in the sixth, before Pacheco came home on a Topolski sacrifice fly in the seventh.

Esteban Rodriguez allowed three runs, two earned, on two hits, three walks, and a hit batter with three strikeouts in four and a third of an inning of action. Brian Reinke collected the win, allowing one hit, one walk, a hit batter and striking out three in three innings of work. Logan Ymker walked two in a third of an inning before Cole Hentschel collected his league leading seventh save, walking one and striking out two in an inning and a third of work.

In the second game, Dayton got on the board first with two runs in the second inning off UR starter Jackson Hinchliffe. Hinchliffe only allowed the two runs on two hits with a strikeout and a walk over four innings of work.

Chase Topolski tossed two big scoreless innings, walking two, hitting two and striking out four, including working out of a bases loaded jam in the fifth.

Jake Topolski put the Spiders on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth, 2-1, with a double to right to score Aidan O'Keefe. Aaron Whitley led off the six with a double, then advanced on a throwing error before scoring on Jordan Jaffe's ground out to tie the game.

Dayton took a 5-2 lead in the seventh, plating three runs on one hit, a walk, two errors on one play and three stolen bases before Ymker struck out the final two batters of the inning.

UD added two more runs in the eighth and a run in the ninth to push their lead to 8-2.

Richmond loaded the bases on three straight singles to start the bottom of the ninth. Larson picked up a RBI on a fielder's choice. Nick Lorenzo tallied a two-out pinch hit three RBI double to get the Spiders within two, 8-6. The UD reliever got the fly out to end the game.

Ymker was tagged with the loss, allowing three runs on two hits and a walk in an inning of work. Harrison Clifton allowed two runs on a hit, a walk and struck out one. Jason Shockley allowed one hit in two-thirds of an inning of work. Ethan Sannes allowed a run on a hit in an inning of action.