Spider Baseball Takes A-10 Opener at Dayton

Friday, May 2

Dayton, OH

1 PM

University of Richmond

28-15, 9-13

Dayton

23-24, 11-11

Richmond

Dayton

Jackson Hinchliffe strides towards home plate as he's about to throw the ball

05/02/2025 | Baseball

Box Score

DAYTON, Ohio – The University of Richmond baseball team defeated the University of Dayton 9-2 Friday afternoon at Woerner Field at AES Ohio Stadium in Atlantic 10 Conference action. The second game of the series is set for a 1 p.m. first pitch Saturday.

Richmond, now 28-15 on the year and 9-13 in A-10 play, got on the board first in the third inning. DJ Pacheco scored the first run on Phil Bernstein's bases loaded ground out. Jordan Jaffe brought in RJ Rickabaugh and Aaron Whitley with a base hit to center to give Richmond a 3-0 lead.

Dayton, 23-24 on the year and 11-11 in league action, got a run back in the bottom of the frame off Richmond starter Jackson Hinchliffe. Hinchliffe went four innings, allowing the one run on three hits, two walks, a hit batter and a strikeout.

Brady O'Brien led off the fourth with a base hit, then Michael Elko drew a full-count walk. After Pacheco put down a sacrifice bunt to move the runners up, both scored on Rickabaugh's double to left field.

With one on and two out in the top of the fifth, the game was halted for just under an hour due lightning in the area. Once the game resumed, Jaffe scored on O'Brien's grounder to deep in the hole at shortstop to push the Spiders lead to 6-1.

The Flyers got a run in the bottom of the fifth off UR reliever Ryan Bilka. Bilka regrouped and threw four scoreless frames to lock down the win, his sixth of the season. Bilka allowed the one run on two hits, a walk and struck out three over five total innings of work.

To lead off the seventh, Whitley legged out his first triple of the season. He quickly scored on Bernstein's base hit to center.

Pacheco scored in the eighth from first on Rickabaugh's second double of the game. Rickabaugh then scored on Bernstein's base hit to center. Both Rickabaugh and Bernstein had three RBI against Dayton.