April 17, 2007

BOX SCORE

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Longwood University dropped a 6-4 baseball decision on the road at George Mason University of the Colonial Athletic Association Tuesday afternoon at Spuhler Field in Fairfax. The Lancers are now 29-12 this season, while the Patriots improved to 18-18 with their home win. Longwood will play again this weekend, April 21-22, during a three-game road series at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro.

At Mason, Longwood scored two runs in the third inning and two more runs in the eighth inning while the hosts plated single runs in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh innings. The Patriots out-hit the visiting Lancers 11-6, and LU also committed four errors in the contest.

In the third, sophomore Jon Quigley/Annandale (W.T. Woodson) (1-3, 2 RBI) delivered a two-run double to left field with one out that scored senior captain Tyler Ames/Exmore (Northampton) (0-2) and sophomore Robbie Bailey/Mechanicsville (Hanover) (2-3). Ames had opened the inning with a lead-off walk before Bailey singled to extend his current hitting streak to 16-games. Bailey has hit safely in 30 of his last 31 games overall.

In the eighth, Bailey doubled to left field to begin the frame and crossed the plate with one out on a wild pitch. Senior Tyler Childress/Montclair (Forest Park) (1-4, RBI) added an RBI single that scored Quigley who had walked ahead of the wild pitch. Freshman Topher Ellis/Virginia Beach (First Colonial) (2-3) also had two hits for Longwood. Senior captain and right-handed pitcher Brian McCullough/Virginia Beach (Princess Anne) (5-2), on the preseason Wallace Watch List, took the pitching loss with the first 5.0 innings while scattering eight hits and four runs, three earned, with two strikeouts and three walks. Classmate and left-handed pitcher Needham Jones III/Portsmouth (Woodrow Wilson) tossed the final 3.0 innings in relief, allowing three hits and two earned runs with one strikeout.

George Mason was led offensively by Scott Krieger (3-3, 2 RBI) with three hits, including his 16th home run, a solo shot to left field in the seventh inning. Chris Fournier (2-4, RBI) and Jason Bour (2-4, RBI) each added two hits for the Patriots. Mike Modica (3-4) earned the mound win with the first 7.0 innings, yielding just four hits and two earned runs with eight strikeouts and three walks. Jordan Flasher picked-up his seventh save with the final 1.2 hitless and scoreless innings, striking-out two of the five batters he faced. George Mason now leads the brief series 3-1.