Sinnes Pitches Four-Hitter for Cavs, Battlers Take Second Game

March 21, 2007
Game 1 Boxscore

Game 2 Boxscore

Wise, VA – Matt Sinnes pitched a four-hit complete game shutout for UVA-Wise in a 5-0 win before Alderson-Broaddus came back for a late inning 9-5 rally in the second game to earn a baseball split Wednesday.

Junior Sinnes (Roanoke, VA) had his best performance as a Highland Cavalier by scattering four hits, walking two and striking out three for the shutout victory. Brad Robbins (Big Stone Gap, VA) was the offensive standout with a four for seven day. The left-hander lined two first game doubles and then hit a solo homer in the second contest.

Jorge Laboy (Woodbridge, VA) added three hits and a solo home run in the late game. Edwin Narvaez (Morovis, PR) and Brock Funk (Fries, VA) hit home runs in the late game. Narvaez’s shot was a two-run one and had a single in the opener. Matt Begley (Norton, VA), Clay Christian (Wise, VA) and Matt Hall (Hillsville, VA) sliced two singles while Brad Austin (Hillsville, VA) had the last hit.

Narvaez singled home Hall, who walked, in the first inning. Alan Stoupa (McLean, VA) lofted a sac fly to right to plate Robbins, who doubled, to make it 2-0 after two frames.

Narvaez belted a two-run home run to left field in the third to bring the tally to 4-0. Christian hit home Robbins, who doubled, for the final run in the sixth for all the scoring Sinnes would need in the 5-0 win.

Laboy hit a solo homer in the first, Hall a two-run single in the second and solo round-trippers back-to-back from Funk and Robbins for a 5-3 UVA-Wise (16-5-1) lead after three innings in the late game.

The Battlers (7-3) had all the offense the rest of the game. The visitors scored once in the fifth before exploding for four unearned tallies in the sixth and tacked on an insurance score in the seventh for a 9-5 victory.

The Cavs will now be off until hosting Virginia Intermont in a Appalachian Athletic Conference twinbill next Tuesday, March 27 th starting at 12:00 p.m.