March 18, 2008

Box Score

Game Two Box Score

Charlottesville, Va. - The No. 19 Virginia Cavaliers scored five times in the eighth inning, rallying for a 6-4 victory over the Stony Brook University baseball team on Tuesday night at Davenport Field in the second game of a doubleheader. Three Cavalier pitchers combined on a two-hitter to lead Virginia to a 3-0 win in the first game of the day. The teams were originally scheduled to play single games at 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, but the change to a Tuesday doubleheader was made because of forecasted inclement weather on Wednesday. Stony Brook falls to 4-7 with the losses while Virginia improves to 16-4.

The Seawolves entered the eighth inning of game two with a 4-1 lead but the Cavaliers loaded the bases with none out against Stony Brook junior starter Jeremy Nowak (Cheektowaga, N.Y.). Phil Gosselin then walked to force in a run and the Seawolves turned to junior left-hander Michael Barbot (Clermont, Fla.) to face Franco Valdes.

Barbot got Valdes on a grounder to a third but a Stony Brook error allowed another Cavalier's run to score, cutting the SBU lead to one at 4-3. David Adams then came on as a pinch-hitter and walked to force in another run and tie the game at four. Jarrett Parker drove in the go-ahead run with an RBI groundout and Greg Miclat knocked in the final tally of the inning with another run-scoring groundout. Michael Schwimer then hurled a scoreless ninth to complete the doubleheader sweep for the Cavaliers.

UVA took an early lead in game two on a Gosselin home run leading off the second. But the Seawolves rallied in the fifth, loading the bases with two outs. Nowak then came up and grounded a two-run single up the middle to give Stony Brook a 2-1 advantage. SBU pushed its lead to 3-1 with an unearned run in the sixth and then tacked on another run in the seventh on a Nowak home run.

Nowak took the loss despite allowing just four runs in 7.0+ innings of work. He also went 2-for-5 with three RBI at the plate while junior Brian Witkowski (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) added three hits in three at-bats.

The Cavaliers took the lead in the third inning of the opening game as Parker tripled with one out and then came home to score on a Miclat RBI single. Parker struck again in the fifth, tripling home Corey Hunt to give UVA a 2-0 lead. He then came home on a sacrifice fly from Tyler Cannon to make it 3-0.

The Seawolves were unable to muster much offensively as three Cavalier pitcher combined to hold Stony Brook to just two hits. Nowak tallied both of the hits for SBU, reaching on a single in the fourth after doubling to lead off the second. Jeff Lorick earned the victory for Virginia, allowing no runs and two hits in 4.2 innings of work. Sophomore Matt Harloff (Valley Stream, N.Y.) took the loss for the Seawolves, giving up three runs on five hits in 6.0 innings.

The Seawolves return to action on Thursday, traveling to take on James Madison. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.