Longwood Falls To Old Dominion 8-3

Junior Paul Heidler II Collects Two Hits, RBI Against Monarchs

March 25, 2008

FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood University dropped an 8-3 baseball decision to visiting Old Dominion University Tuesday night at Lancer Stadium in Farmville. The Lancers are now 14-9 this season, while the Monarchs of the Colonial Athletic Association improved to 13-10 behind a complete-game effort on the mound by freshman Kyle Hald (3-0). Longwood will play again on Wednesday, March 26, at Radford University beginning at 2:30 p.m..

Longwood took an early 1-0 lead in the second inning on a one-out sacrifice fly to left field by junior Paul Heidler II/ Warrenton (Notre Dame Academy) (2-3, RBI) that scored sophomore Phil Cerreto/Midlothian (Midlothian) (3-4) who had led-off with a double down the left-field line. ODU tied it at 1-1 in the fourth as Bryan Cipolla (1-6) singled to lead-off and later stole second with one out before crossing the plate on an RBI single from David Burns (2-4, RBI). The Lancers re-took the lead at 2-1 in the fifth when Heidler singled to lead-off and scored with one out on an RBI single by sophomore Scott Kimble/Spotsylvania (Spotsylvania) (3-4, RBI). The Monarchs, however, broke the contest open with three runs in the sixth as Anthony Shawler drew a one-out walk, moved to second on a single by Burns, and scored on an RBI single from Jake McAloose (2-5, RBI). McAloose and Burns would cross the plate on a two-run double to left field by Joe Velleggia (2-3, 2 RBI) for a 4-2 advantage through six innings.

Old Dominion would add three more runs in the eighth, two unearned courtesy of two errors, as Velleggia doubled to left-center field and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt. Following a one-out walk, Velleggia scored on a wild pitch before Jimmy Miles (1-5) reached on a single and moved to second when Max Most (1-5) reached on a catcher interference call. An error allowed Miles to score, and Most would cross the plate unearned as well on an RBI single from Shawler. ODU added another run in the ninth when McAloose doubled to right-center field to open the inning and scored after three-straight walks, the latter to Chris Keenan (0-3, RBI). Longwood pushed across a final run in the ninth as well with Cerreto reaching on a single and scoring with one-out on an RBI ground-ball out from freshman Brant Jones/Richmond (Monacan) (2-4, RBI).

Hald went the distance in garnering the win for ODU, scattering 12 hits and three earned runs with six strikeouts and no walks over the 9.0 innings. Freshman Troy Dickman/Midlothian (Midlothian) (0-1) took the pitching loss for LU with the first 5.1 innings, allowing four hits and three earned runs with four strikeouts and three walks. Senior Isaac Weiderman/Chillicothe, Ohio (Huntington) pitched 1.2 innings of middle relief, yielding three hits and one earned run with two strikeouts and one walk.

Old Dominion now leads the overall series against Longwood since 1988 at 6-1.

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