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Randolph-Macon Sweeps St. Mary's

Ashland, Va. - The Randolph-Macon College baseball team used a walk-off hit in each game to take a pair from St. Mary's College of Maryland Saturday afternoon in non-conference action.  The Yellow Jackets claimed the first game by a score of 7-6 and then won the nightcap, 4-3. 

The Seahawks (1-2) will look to avenge one of the losses on Sunday when St. Mary's faces the Yellow Jackets (2-3) in the final contest of this weekend's three-game series at 1:00.

Game One
Box Score
Down 6-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh, Randolph-Macon's first batter hit a pop fly to second for the first out of the inning before junior infielder Greg Meleski (Weston, Fla.) singled then advanced to second on an error.  Sophomore Adam Carpenter (Richmond, Va.) walked then Meleski and Carpenter each advanced a base on junior Charlie Hartt's (Richmond, Va.) single to load the bases.

Sophomores Michael Wallace (Powhatan, Va.) and J.C. Conway (Sandston, Va.) connected on back-to-back RBI singles to pull RMC within one with just one out and set up the scene for junior Jeff Beck's (Richmond, Va.) two-run single with bases loaded.  Meleski finished the first game going 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored, while four other Yellow Jackets connected on a pair of hits apiece.

Seniors Mike Broccolino (Millersville, Md./Old Mill) and Josh Feldman (Cabin John, Md./Walt Whitman), sophomore outfielder Jacen Killebrew (La Plata, Md./La Plata), and freshman infielder Matt Baden (Sunderland, Md./Huntington) each had two hits for the Seahawks.

Senior right-hander Michael Gerdes (Virginia Beach, Va.) got the win after just one inning of work as Gerdes (1-0) allowed just one hit and two walks, while senior right-hander Caleb Simms (Amherst, Mass./Amherst) suffered the loss as Simms (0-1) gave up eight hits and three earned runs in just one inning of action.

Game Two
Box Score
This time, the Seahawks knotted the game at 3-3 as Killebrew scored the tying run on a RMC error to force the extra inning.  However, St. Mary's was unable to generate any offense in the eighth as the Yellow Jackets' junior left-hander Dillon Sheads (Culpeper, Va.) retired the side in order with a pair of strikeouts and a ground out.

Conway stepped up to the plate with runners on first and second to put through his second RBI single of the day and junior Steve Craun (Harrisonburg, Va.) scored the game-winner.

Sheads (1-0) notched the win for the Yellow Jackets with two inning of work, striking out three and giving up only on hit.  Wallace and Conway each went 3-for-4 at the plate and scored a run each.  Conway drove in two runs in the game while Wallace had one RBI.

Suffering the loss for St. Mary's was freshman right-hander Mikel Iraola (Kensington, Md./DeMatha Catholic) who pitched 4.1 innings, scattering four hits with one strikeout.

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