Lynchburg, Va. -- A whopping 51 runs across 14 innings of action allowed the University of Lynchburg baseball squad to soar past the Bridgewater Eagles in both games of today's double header at Fox Field.
The No. 4 Hornets (31-5, 16-3) erupted for 21 runs in the fourth inning of game one to attribute to a final score of 30-2 in seven frames. Lynchburg's run total ties for the fourth-most runs scored by a team in a single game in NCAA division III this season and is the most that the program has tallied in one contest in over 20 years. Last time the Hornets hung 30 runs on a squad was a 30-0 win against Emory and Henry on March 26, 2005.
Lynchburg had nine performers post multi-RBI games.
Sean Pokorak led the way with six RBI while
Benton Jones notched five RBI. Pokorak finished game one a perfect six-of-six from the batters box, including three doubles, and scored five runs. Jones went three-of-five at the plate with one triple and scored three runs.
Joe Munitz and
Eric Hiett tallied three hits, runs and RBI apiece.
Brandon Garcia scored three runs and had a two-RBI single in the run-packed fourth frame.
Maddox Tsutsui finished with five runs scored and two RBI while going two-of-three from the plate. In his lone at bat,
Ryder Warren knocked one home for his second home run of his collegiate career.
The Hornets continued to roll in game two and found the fourth inning to be the sweet spot once again, racking up 11 runs in frame four. Lynchburg pushed ahead for an 8-3 advantage in the second frame. The Eagles rallied for five runs in the third to knot the score, but the Hornets responded with two runs in the bottom of the frame and added 11 in the following inning.
Conner Moore paced the offense with six RBI, including his third home run of the season and second in the last seven days, while Garcia and Munitz tacked on four RBI. Munitz finished the competition four-of-five at the plate for the top hitting percentage in the outing. Six additional Hornets tallied multi-hit performances: Garcia (three hits), Moore (three),
Jacob Wright (three), Warren (two), Hiett (two), and Tsutsui (two).
The baseball squad will close out the regular season on the road, beginning with its second affair of the season against Randolph-Macon on Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m.
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