April 27, 2008
Courtesy of RMC Sports
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Randolph-Macon Wins ODAC
Baseball Title, 4-2, Over Virginia Wesleyan
Yellow Jackets Capture Third ODAC Baseball Title
LYNCHBURG, VA - The Randolph-Macon
College baseball team captured the school's first ODAC championship since 1987
with a 4-2 victory over Virginia Wesleyan College at Lynchburg City Stadium.
R-MC (25-15) earns the league's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Tournament that
will start on May 14th at eight pre-determined regional sites.
The Yellow Jackets grabbed an early advantage in the second inning when Jay Lichter singled home Mike Wallace with two outs to give
R-MC a 1-0 lead.
The Marlins (26-14-1) rallied and scored a single run in the third inning and
took the lead 2-1 on a Phil Cadle RBI double.
Tournament Most Outstanding Player Greg Meleski
provided the equalizer with a one-out single in the sixth that scored James Bierline and knotted the game at 2-2.
The Jackets scored the winning runs in the top-half of the eighth inning after Meleski reached second to open the inning on a ball
misplayed in the VWC outfield. Charlie Hartt
followed with an RBI double to put R-MC in front 3-2. Randolph-Macon
padded its lead when Jeff Beck plated Hartt with an
RBI single to make the score 4-2.
Hartt started the game on the mound for R-MC and went
5.2 innings, allowing seven hits and two runs, while striking out five.
Devin O'Meara tossed 1.2 inning of perfect relief to pick up his first
win of the season. Nick Simons notched his first save of the season,
tossing the final two innings and only allowing one base runner.
The trio capped off a four day pitching performance that saw R-MC hurlers post
a 2.75 ERA, including the Jacket bullpen that allowed just two runs in 8.1
innings of work.
The R-MC offense hit .301 for the tournament, scoring 36 runs, 24 of which coming in the seventh inning of after.
All Tournament Team
C - William Lewis, WLU
1B - Adam Marx, VWC
2B - Greg Meleski, RMC (MOP)
3B - Jim Plantholt, WLU
SS - Bruno Gora, RMC
OF - Mike Wallace, RMC
OF - James Bierline, RMC
OF - Matt Winston, LC
DH - Jeff Beck, RMC
P - Byron Mendenhall, RMC
P - Gary Bulman, VWC