March 20, 2008
BOX SCORE
FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood University took an 11-2 baseball victory past visiting Maryland-Eastern Shore Thursday night at Lancer Stadium in Farmville. The Lancers improved to 12-7 while defeating the Eagles (0-20) for the eighteenth-straight time in the overall series dating back to 1983 (18-0). Longwood will play again on Saturday, March 22, hosting Stony Brook University for a doubleheader at Lancer Stadium in Farmville beginning at 2 p.m..
Longwood scored four runs in the third inning and led 4-0 through four innings before Maryland-Eastern Shore scored a run in the fifth to make it 4-1. The Lancers answered with two more runs in the fifth and added five runs in the seventh to lead 11-1. The Hawks scored a final run in the eighth inning for the final nine-run margin.
In the third, sophomore David Smiy Jr./Chesterfield (Matoaca) (1-3) walked with one out and moved to second on a single by junior Paul Heidler II/Warrenton (Notre Dame Academy) (1-2). Classmate Robbie Bailey/Mechanicsville (Hanover) (1-3) reached on an infield single to load the bases before another walk, this time to junior Jon Quigley/Annandale (W.T. Woodson) (0-3, RBI), allowed Smiy to score. Freshman Justin Morreim/Virginia Beach (Frank W. Cox) (1-3, 2 RBI) followed with a two-run double down the left-field line that scored Heidler and Bailey, and Quigley crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly from sophomore Phil Cerreto/Midlothian (Midlothian) (1-1, 2 RBI). In the fifth, Bailey reached on an error, stole second, and later scored on another sacrifice fly by Cerreto. Quigley, who had been hit by a pitch, also would score in the inning during a run-down play between first and second base.
In the seventh, Smiy and freshman Marcus Powell/Manassas (Osbourn) (1-2) each reached on bunt-singles to open the inning, and Bailey also reached base on a fielder’s choice sacrifice bunt. Smiy would later score on a wild pitch, and Powell and Bailey both scored when sophomore Casey Havers/Thorofare, N.J. (West Deptford) (1-1, 2 BI) tripled to the center field wall. After a pitching change, Cerreto walked and advanced to second on a ground-ball out before senior Nick von Gersdorff/Purcellville (Loudoun Valley) (1-4, 2 RBI) added the final runs on a two-out, two-run single up the middle.
Freshman Jonathan Watson/Richmond (L.C. Bird) (2-1) earned the pitching win with the first 7.0 innings, allowing just four hits and one unearned run with nine strikeouts.
UMES was led by Remo Orsini (2-3) with two hits, while Pat Hercinger (1-4, RBI) had an RBI. Matt Witte (0-3) suffered the mound loss with the first 6.1 innings, yielding seven hits and eight earned runs with five strikeouts.
