Baseball: Seton Hall Claims Game One
April 11, 2008 09:41 PM | General
April 11, 2008
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Dan Lopez had a bases clearing double and Joe DiRocco scattered six hits and four runs through 5 1/3 innings to lift Seton Hall to a 7-4 victory over West Virginia Friday night in game one of a three-game series at Owen T. Carroll Field.
A.J. Rusbarsky, Matt Smedberg and Chris Spagnuolo had two hits each to help the Pirates improve to 20-12, 9-4.
West Virginia, which came into the game with a conference-best .370 team batting average, was limited to eight hits and four runs by three different Pirate pitchers.
DiRocco permitted four hits, struckout five and walked one to improve to 2-1. Jesse Gwaltney pitched a scoreless inning and a third.
Matt Singer pitched two innings of scoreless relief to pick up his fourth save of the year.
Seton Hall plated three runs in the third on a three-run double to left by Lopez, and added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh on Tim McCann’s two-run homer to left off of WVU starter Josh Whitlock.
Whitlock (6-2) gave up seven earned runs on seven hits with six walks and five strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings of work. Jordon Yost pitched a scoreless 1 2/3 innings of relief.
West Virginia (25-8, 6-4) got single runs in the second and fourth and added a pair in the sixth to pull to within one at 5-4. Joe Agreste tripled to center to knock in one run and Austin Markel knocked in Agreste with a double to left.
Tyler Kuhn, Markel and Dan DiBartolomeo had two hits each for the Mountaineers.
The two teams will resume play on Saturday at 1 pm. The Big East series will wrap up on Sunday with a noon game.
