Completed Event: Baseball versus Cornell on April 27, 2025 , Win , 7, to, 4
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Saturday, February 29
Charlottesville, Va. / Davenport Field at Disharoon Park
1:00 PM
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Kolton Freeman crushed his pitch for his first collegiate home run.
Photo by: Keith Lucas
Two Freshmen Hit Homers, But Virgnia Pulls Away Late
2/29/2020 3:46:00 PM | Baseball
Kolton Freeman and James House both hit their first collegiate long balls
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Freshmen Kolton Freeman and James House each hit their first collegiate home run for Dartmouth, but Virginia (8-3) scored six unearned runs in the eighth to pull away from the Big Green (2-4) on Saturday afternoon at Davenport Field at Disharoon Park, 12-4. Chris Newell led the Cavaliers by going 3-for-5 at the plate, scoring twice and driving in three on a bases-loaded triple.
Dartmouth trailed by a 5-1 score in the top of the sixth when Freeman got hold of a 2-1 offering and deposited over the fence in left field. In the next inning, sophomore Justin Murray roped a two-out double before House, after falling behind 0-2 in the count, yanked a 2-2 pitch out to right for a two-run blast, cutting the Big Green deficit to one at 5-4.
In the bottom half, Zack Gelof hit a leadoff triple and scored on a wild pitch for a little breathing room for Virginia. But in the eighth, the roof fell in due to a pair of errors. Still, the Cavaliers had two out with a man on third before Max Cotier dropped an RBI single into left field. Two walks loaded the bases, and the second error of the inning on a grounder allowed another run to cross the plate. Newell then followed by slashing a ball just inside the right-field line for a bases-clearing three-bagger, then scored on a single off the bat of Devin Ortiz to complete the scoring.
Virginia jumped out to a 1-0 lead against right-hander Nathan Skinner when Gelof hit a ball to deep center and managed to scoot around the bases for an inside-the-park home run.
The Big Green knotted the score in the fourth when sophomore Ben Rice walked to start the stanza, took third on a one-out single by Freeman and sprinted home on a Blake Crossing chopper to second.
The tie score did not last long as Christian Hlinka and Jimmy Sullivan hit back-to-back bombs in the bottom half, Hlinka's with a man on, to open up a 4-1 lead. The fifth Cavalier run crossed the plate in the fifth on an RBI single by Logan Michaels, scoring Marc Lebreux who had singled and stolen second.
Mike Vasil (2-0) earned the victory on the mound, tossing six innings of two-run ball, allowing five hits and four walks to go with three strikeouts. Stephen Schoch struck out the side in the ninth to close out the game.
Skinner (0-1) suffered the loss, yielding four runs on eight hits over four frames, fanning one.
Freeman and Murray each had two hits as Dartmouth collected seven on the afternoon.
All nine Virginia starters had at least one hit, banging out 16 as a team, and Gelof scored three times while going 2-for-3 with an RBI.
The Big Green will look to salvage the final game of the three-game series, streamed live on ACC Network Extra, on Sunday at noon.
Notes: The two home runs by the Dartmouth rookies were the first for the team this season … the Big Green have lost eight straight in the all-time series with the Cavaliers with their last victory coming in 1940 … Dartmouth opponents have not committed an error through the first six games this season.
Dartmouth trailed by a 5-1 score in the top of the sixth when Freeman got hold of a 2-1 offering and deposited over the fence in left field. In the next inning, sophomore Justin Murray roped a two-out double before House, after falling behind 0-2 in the count, yanked a 2-2 pitch out to right for a two-run blast, cutting the Big Green deficit to one at 5-4.
In the bottom half, Zack Gelof hit a leadoff triple and scored on a wild pitch for a little breathing room for Virginia. But in the eighth, the roof fell in due to a pair of errors. Still, the Cavaliers had two out with a man on third before Max Cotier dropped an RBI single into left field. Two walks loaded the bases, and the second error of the inning on a grounder allowed another run to cross the plate. Newell then followed by slashing a ball just inside the right-field line for a bases-clearing three-bagger, then scored on a single off the bat of Devin Ortiz to complete the scoring.
Virginia jumped out to a 1-0 lead against right-hander Nathan Skinner when Gelof hit a ball to deep center and managed to scoot around the bases for an inside-the-park home run.
The Big Green knotted the score in the fourth when sophomore Ben Rice walked to start the stanza, took third on a one-out single by Freeman and sprinted home on a Blake Crossing chopper to second.
The tie score did not last long as Christian Hlinka and Jimmy Sullivan hit back-to-back bombs in the bottom half, Hlinka's with a man on, to open up a 4-1 lead. The fifth Cavalier run crossed the plate in the fifth on an RBI single by Logan Michaels, scoring Marc Lebreux who had singled and stolen second.
Mike Vasil (2-0) earned the victory on the mound, tossing six innings of two-run ball, allowing five hits and four walks to go with three strikeouts. Stephen Schoch struck out the side in the ninth to close out the game.
Skinner (0-1) suffered the loss, yielding four runs on eight hits over four frames, fanning one.
Freeman and Murray each had two hits as Dartmouth collected seven on the afternoon.
All nine Virginia starters had at least one hit, banging out 16 as a team, and Gelof scored three times while going 2-for-3 with an RBI.
The Big Green will look to salvage the final game of the three-game series, streamed live on ACC Network Extra, on Sunday at noon.
Notes: The two home runs by the Dartmouth rookies were the first for the team this season … the Big Green have lost eight straight in the all-time series with the Cavaliers with their last victory coming in 1940 … Dartmouth opponents have not committed an error through the first six games this season.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Vasil, Mike (2-0)
L: Skinner, Nathan (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Murray, Justin 1
HR: House, James 1 ; Freeman, Kolton 1
RBI: House, James 2 ; Freeman, Kolton 1 ; Crossing, Blake 1
SH: House, James 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Murray, Justin 1 ; House, James 1 ; Rice, Ben 1 ; Freeman, Kolton 1
Batting:
2B: Ortiz, Devin 1 ; Hamrock, Drew 1
3B: Gelof, Zack 1 ; Newell, Chris 1
HR: Gelof, Zack 1 ; Hlinka, Christian 1 ; Sullivan, Jimmy 1
RBI: Cotier, Max 1 ; Gelof, Zack 1 ; Michaels, Logan 1 ; Newell, Chris 3 ; Ortiz, Devin 1 ; Hlinka, Christian 2 ; Sullivan, Jimmy 1
SH: Gelof, Zack 1 ; Sullivan, Jimmy 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cotier, Max 1 ; Gelof, Zack 3 ; Lebreux, Marc 2 ; Michaels, Logan 1 ; Newell, Chris 2 ; Hlinka, Christian 1 ; Hamrock, Drew 1 ; Sullivan, Jimmy 1
SB: Lebreux, Marc 1 ; Sullivan, Jimmy 1
Game Leaders
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