Cavs Spank Scots in Two Run-Ruled Baseball Contests

March 10, 2007
Game 1 Boxscore

Game 2 Boxscore

Wise, VA – The run barrage continued as the UVA-Wise baseball team pounded out 24 hits to run-rule Covenant College twice, 13-3 in eight innings and then 13-2 in five innings, on Saturday afternoon in Appalachian Athletic Conference play.

The Highland Cavaliers (11-2-1/3-1 AAC) swept its second opponent of the week with all four games coming via the run-rule. Covenant drops to 4-14 and 0-4 in the league.

The top three hitters in the UVA-Wise lineup each accounted for five hits apiece. Leadoff man Matt Hall (Hillsville, VA) was five for eight, seven runs scored, two rbi, two doubles, two stolen bases and three walks. He was a perfect four for four with two doubles in the second game. Jorge Laboy (Woodbridge, VA) went four for five with two doubles on his way to a five for eight, four run, three double, three steal and two rbi day. Edwin Narvaez drove in a team-best five runs with five hits, scored four times and stole two bases.

Sophomore Josh Verts (Winchester, VA) had two hits including a three-run homer, his fifth of the year, to end the second game and scored three times. John Bigley (Woodbridge, VA) had a double in each game with three rbi and two runs. Alan Stoupa (McLean, VA) went two for three in the opener with two rbi while Mike Lang (Fredericksburg, VA) had two doubles. Andrew Anderson (Richmond, VA) had a rbi single in each game. Jeremy Wright (Bristol, VA) had two singles while freshman Brad Austin (Hillsville, VA) had the last hit, a run-scoring single.

Brock Funk (Fries, VA) improved to 2-1 after pitching the final 5 2/3rds innings in the opener. He fanned four. David Jones (Amelia, VA) remained perfect on the year as he went to 4-0 in the second game where he allowed four hits, one earned run and struck out three.

In the opener, UVA-Wise scored twice in the first and added two more in the fifth to lead 4-1 after five frames. Covenant added a pair in the sixth before the big home inning. The Cavs plated five tallies in the home half of the sixth with the big hit being a two-run single by Stoupa to break the game open, 9-3.

The Cavs added a single run in the seventh before ending the game in the eighth with a two-run double from Lang and a rbi single from Hall for the 13-3 final.

UVA-Wise jumped on Covenant early in the second game. The home team sent up nine batters in the bottom of the first to score four times. The Cavs added three more scores in the second including a rbi double from Bigley to push it to 7-2.

Leading 8-2 in the bottom of the fifth, Lang doubled to left center to lead off the turn at bat. Hall followed with his own two-bagger to drive in Lang. Laboy walked. Narvaez singled to center to plate Hall. Verts stepped to bat and blasted his fifth homer of the year, a three-run shot, to end the game, 13-2, in five innings.

UVA-Wise will next play at West Virginia Tech on Monday afternoon starting at 2:00 p.m.