George Washington University Athletics
George Washington University
Richmond
GW Baseball Falls Twice on Saturday
4/26/2014 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 26, 2014
Richmond 6, GW 3
Richmond 3, GW 1
RICHMOND, Va. - The George Washington baseball team fell to Richmond in the continuation of Friday's game one, 6-3, before a 3-1 loss in game two on Saturday afternoon at Pitt Field.
GW (14-26, 6-11 A-10) held a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning when play was suspended on Friday afternoon due to lightning and heavy rain.
Junior Ryan Xepoleas had led off the second inning with an infield single and stole second base. After a Matthieu Robert walk, the baserunners moved up to second and third on a sacrifice bunt by freshman Cody Bryant. Freshman Kevin Mahala then came to the plate and drove in the first run on a groundout to make the score 1-0.
Freshman Eli Kashi then came to the plate and roped a 1-2 pitch to deep left field for a RBI double to give the Colonials a 2-0 lead.
A lightning delay commenced in the bottom of the second inning with one runner on base and one out. When the game resumed on Saturday, a three-run home run by Cory Moheit put Richmond (17-22, 8-9 A-10) on top, 3-2.
A sacrifice fly and RBI double in the sixth extended Richmond's lead to 5-2 before another run in the seventh made the score 6-2.
A RBI single by senior Owen Beightol pulled GW within three at 6-3 but the Colonials couldn't score again.
In game two, Richmond built a 2-0 lead with a sacrifice fly in the first inning and a solo home run by Jansen Fraser in the second.
Beightol got the Colonials on the board with a RBI groundout in the sixth but Richmond plated an insurance run eighth inning to clinch the 3-1 win.
Beightol finished with three hits across the two games to extend his hit streak to 10 games.
Xepoleas extended his hit streak to 14 with two hits in game one but was held hitless in game two. His streak of 14 was the longest active streak in the Atlantic 10 and just one shy of the program record of 15 games, shared by Tyler McCarthy '13, Andrew Abokhair '08 and Tom Shanely '02.
Game three will be played on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at Pitt Field.
