Box Score LEXINGTON, Va. – Cameron Walter had one hit and one RBI, and Reed Garrett gained the complete-game pitching win, to lead VMI to a 3-1 Big South Conference North Division baseball victory past Longwood University on Thursday night in Lexington. Sophomore
C.J. Roth/Yorktown had two hits for the visiting Lancers (14-24, 4-12 Big South) against the host Keydets (21-14, 9-7 Big South) in the opening game of the three-game conference series. Longwood and VMI will play again on Friday night, April 18 at 6 p.m. in Lexington.
VMI scored single runs in each of the first three innings to lead 3-0. In the first, Brandon Angus (0-2) was hit by a pitch and advanced to third with two stolen bases. Three walks later, the latter to Walter (1-3, RBI), forced Angus across the plate with the first run. In the second, Tanner Doffelmeyer (3-4) singled and later scored from third when Eric Mayers (0-2, RBI) was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. In the third, Walter singled and later crossed the plate courtesy of another bases loaded walk, this time to Will Malbon (0-3, RBI).
Longwood avoided the shutout with a run in the eighth inning for the final two-run margin. Roth (2-3) singled, moved to second on a wild pitch, on to third via a fly ball off the bat of freshman
Brandon Harvell/Yorktown (0-3) and scored on a ground ball RBI from sophomore
Colton Konvicka/Richmond (0-3, RBI). Senior captain
Matt Dickason/Chesapeake (1-4) and junior
Brandon Delk/Newport News (1-4) collected the other two hits for the Lancers.
Freshman
Mitchell Kuebbing/Burlington, Kentucky (1-3) started for Longwood and pitched the first 3.0 innings for the mound loss, allowing four hits and three earned runs with one strikeout, six walks and two hit batters. Sophomore
Allen Ellis/Mechanicsville pitched the final 5.0 scoreless innings for the Lancers, yielding just one hit with one strikeout and no walks.
Garrett (5-4) started for VMI and went the 9.0 innings for the win, scattering four hits and one earned run with eight strikeouts and one walk.
