Apr 12, 2008

Villa Splits With York To Claim #5 Seed

York, PA - Villa entered the game needing a split to jump ahead of York in the CAC tournament and get the #5 seed to avoid travelling to the #1 seed.

The Spartans came out in game one and took it to the Mustangs by beating them by a score of 5-0. Jason Christianberry picked up the victory pitching a complete game shutout allowing just 3 hits and 7 K's. It was the first time the Mustangs who average 11.2 runs per game had been shut out this season.

Game two became a marathon between 2 teams that just didn't want to go down easy. The Mustangs opened up the scoring with 1 in the first. York countered with 1 in the 3rd, and 3 more in the 5th to take a 4-1 lead. The Mustangs started the 6th with 2 quick outs. After a single, an error aloud the inning to continue and the Mustangs offense woke up by scoring 5 unearned runs that inning by hitting 3 consecutive doubles by Sophomore George Papuchis, Senior Jimmy Smith, and Junior Ryan Baione.

York answered with 2 runs in the bottom of the 6th to tie it, where it would stay deadlocked until the 10th. In the top of the 10th, the Mustangs rallied for 3 runs, only to see York come back in the bottom of the 10th with 3 to tie it again. Finally in the top of the 9th, Smith for the Mustangs led off with a single up the middle and advanced to 2nd on a throwing error. Baione then hit his 3rd double of the night off the right field fence to plate Smith. Derrick Nason would pitch 2 scoreless innings to pick up his 2nd victory of the week vs York.

Offensively, Smith and Baione were each 4-6 with 2 RBI's and Papuchis, Junior Wade Keenan, and Freshman Kyle Van Beek each added 2 hits with Papuchis picking up 2 RBI's. Keenan also pitched 3 1/3 innings in relief striking out 5 to hold the Mustangs in the Game.

Villa's next competition will be at The University of Mary Washington on Tuesday to open the CAC tournament. UMW is the #2 seed and will host the Mustangs who went 1-2 vs MW losing 1 game in the bottom of the last inning and the other by 3 runs. Gametime is TBD.


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