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Charlottesville, VA – After dropping a 6-2 decision in yesterday's series opener at defending College World Series champion Virginia, the 10th-ranked Cavaliers got their bats going this afternoon, plating eight runs in the eighth inning en route to a 20-7 win over Wagner at Davenport Field.
In dropping the two-game set, the Seahawks fall to 3-4 on the young season while the Cavaliers run their season log to 9-4.
The Green & White jumped on top 2-0 in the top of the first inning. UVA answered with one run in the first, three in the second, one in the fourth, and four more in the fifth in building a 9-2 lead.
The Seahawks countered with a five-run uprising in the sixth to make it a 9-7 game. UVA then pushed across three runs in the home half of the sixth to make it 12-7 before blowing the game open with that big eighth-inning.
Centerfielder
Trey Nicosia (State College, PA/State College Area) went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, with the big blow being a two-run, sixth-inning double which keyed the Seahawks' five-run rally. Seven other Seahawks recorded one hit apiece to account for Wagner's total of nine base hits on the afternoon.
Freshman LHP
Neil Abbatiello (North Salem, NY/Dobbs Ferry), one of seven Seahawk pitchers to toe the rubber today, allowed four runs while working the first 2.1 innings in absorbing the loss. David Rosenberger picked up the win for Virginia in 3.1 innings of relief.
The top two batters in the Cavalier lineup went a combined 7-for-9 with seven RBI, with each reaching base five times, in leading Virginia's 20-hit attack. The number two hitter in the Virginia lineup, second baseman Ernie Clement, went 4-for-5 at the plate with a walk while centerfielder Adam Haseley, the Cavs' leadoff hitter, was 3-for-4 with two walks and an RBI.
The Seahawks continue their five-game road set with a three-game series this weekend (March 11-13) at VCU on the Rams' Richmond, VA campus before heading back north to host Fordham in the home opener at Richmond County Ballpark on March 19.
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