The University of Richmond baseball team started the season with a 0-6 record, which frustrated players and coaches alike. After losing all three games in the University of North Florida Best Bet Classic in Florida, the Spiders returned home with hopes of benefiting from home-field advantage.
The University of Richmond baseball team shut out Fairfield University, 0-8, Sunday afternoon to win the weekend series. Though the bats were quiet for much of the game, two big-scoring innings and strong pitching from Zak Sterling, junior starter, and Ryan Cook, junior reliever, brought the Spiders to a victory over the Stags. Sterling pitched six scoreless innings, allowed five hits and one walk and struck out four batters, which earned the win for Richmond.
The baseball team lost the second game of Saturday's double-header against Fairfield University, 6-2, with a disappearance of the offense that had elevated it to a win earlier in the day. Junior Zach Grossfeld made his first career start, which lasted four innings.
The University of Richmond baseball team broke its seven-game losing streak Saturday morning with a long-awaited offensive awakening, and won 13-2 over Fairfield University. The Richmond offense, which had averaged 5.7 hits and 2.7 runs per game over its first seven games, tallied 15 hits during the first game of the weekend series against Fairfield. Five Spiders had multi-hit games.
The baseball team lost the second game of their double header against Seton Hall University on Sunday afternoon, 6-2. With Richmond's loss, Seton Hall swept the three-game weekend series, and lowered Richmond's record to 0-6. The Spiders scored their only two runs in the first inning.
The baseball team lost to Seton Hall University, 16-2, in the first game of a double header on Sunday. The Pirates again struck early, as they did in their win over the Spiders on Saturday, and scored six runs in the first two innings. Senior pitcher Dylan Stoops took the loss for Richmond, pitching a total of three and one-third innings and allowing eight runs - only two of which were earned - on five hits and two walks. Senior Andrew Blum relieved Stoops and allowed four runs of his own.
After rain forced the cancelation of their first two scheduled home games, the University of Richmond baseball team finally played its home opener on Saturday, which it lost to Seton Hall University, 8-2. Sophomore third baseman Matt Dacey provided the offense for Richmond in his first collegiate start.
When senior catcher JB Gadd heard the news that Tracy Woodson had been hired as University of Richmond's new head baseball coach, he was thrilled at the prospect of being able to learn from a former Major League Baseball player. Almost seven months later, with a fall full of major league-caliber coaching behind them, Gadd and his teammates are looking forward to seeing how the newly configured team performs competitively as the Spiders prepare to kick off their 2014 season, he said. In June 2013, former head coach Mark McQueen resigned after 19 years with the Richmond baseball program.
Former University of Richmond athletic greats Sean Casey (baseball) and Lou Wacker (football) will be inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in late April.
Dr. Wilbon Harrison Daniel, 91, who was a professor of history at University of Richmond from 1956 to 1992, passed away in his home Dec.
"We're going to win here. I'll tell you that right now," said Tracy Woodson, who was formerly introduced as Richmond's head baseball coach on Tuesday. "We are going to be competitive.
University of Richmond are expected to announce the hiring of new head baseball coach Tracy Woodson, according to multiple sources. Woodson, who is originally from Richmond, has been the head baseball coach at Valparisio since the 2007 season. Woodson will replace Mark McQueen, who resigned on June 20th.
After salvaging the series by winning the last of three games against St. Joseph's University, the University of Richmond baseball players and coaches gathered near home plate to have their heads shaved in support of children's cancer research. Feelings of consternation showed on the faces of some of the players who were more emotionally attached to their hair, but the team was happy to support the cause, junior second baseman Adam Forrer said. "We've been pushing to get donations," Forrer said.
Q: How long have you been playing baseball? A: I have been playing baseball for 16 years. Q: What factors have contributed to your recent success? A: Trying to help my team win.
The Spiders baseball team extended its winning streak to four games and completed its second sweep of the season against the Wagner Seahawks with solid pitching and strong offense last weekend. Sophomore Jon de Marte pitched the first game of the series Friday, which the team won 8-6, and allowed three runs through five innings. The second and third innings were tough for de Marte, he said, especially the third when he walked three hitters in a row.
For a team that was supposed to be weakened by its lack of experience and offense, the Spider baseball team defied all preseason expectations in its opening series against Bucknell University. In the first game of the season, the rookies showed their merit in beating the Bucknell Bison 10-4, with solid performances from freshmen Tanner Stanley, Jansen Fraser and Aaron Newman and redshirt freshman Jon de Marte. Stanley and Newman both went 1-for-4, but their hits were their first collegiate home runs, accounting for three of the Spiders' 10 runs of the day.
In Coach Mark McQueen's six years of coaching the University of Richmond baseball team, he has never had a bigger turnover year.
Right-handed pitcher Jacob Mayers threw a career-high 10 complete innings on Friday afternoon in Richmond's 2-1 walk-off victory over Xavier University.
Last spring, CBS and Turner Sports reached an agreement with the NCAA to pay it around $11 billion over 14 years for sole broadcasting rights of the NCAA basketball tournament. That's almost a billion dollars every year. There are similar big-money agreements in football, baseball and other sports that involve exclusive broadcasting rights in exchange for payment to the NCAA. So while the NCAA has been whoring itself out to the likes of CBS, ESPN and Fox for millions and sometimes billions of dollars, it must be fine with its players attempting to make a buck off of their abilities while still in school, right? I bet you can tell where this is going.
A few days before the MLB Amateur Draft, University of Richmond right fielder Mike Mergenthaler made a prophetic purchase at a Richmond Flying Squirrels game. "Him and [teammate Adam] McConnell went to a Squirrels [the AA farm team for the San Francisco Giants] game a couple days before the draft," Richmond coach Mark McQueen said.
