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Radford Halts Bucknell Baseball's Four-Game Winning Streak
3/6/2010 7:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 6, 2010
ELON, N.C. - Ben Yoder, B.J. LaRosa and Andrew Brouse each posted two hits, but Radford pitchers scattered nine Bison hits and three relievers combined for four shutout innings as Bucknell saw its four-game winning streak snapped with a 4-2 loss to the Highlanders Saturday night at Elon.
Bucknell (4-5), which had been averaging better than eight runs a game and scored 18 on Friday vs. Elon, managed just two runs in the third inning off starter Eddie Butler (2-0). The Bison did have at least two baserunners in five of the nine innings and went down 1-2-3 just once, but they had only three runners reach third base outside of the two runs that scored in the third.
Ben Allen, who later scored on a groundout by LaRosa, and Ben Yoder, who scored on a wild pitch, led off the third with back-to-back hits and later came around to score. Those were the lone runs for the high-powered Bucknell offense despite two errors, three walks and four wild pitches by Radford.
For the first time this season Bucknell did not score first in a game as the Highlanders Matt Mack hit a solo home run off Bison starter Dylan Seeley (1-2) with two outs in the second. Radford (3-5) added two more in the third on just two hits, while an RBI single by Jeff Kemp in the ninth provided some insurance.
Seeley pitched an effective 7.0 innings for the Bison, allowing just four hits and one walk while striking out five. Andrew Clarke yielded the one-out run in the ninth, snapping his 8.2 scoreless inning streak. It also snapped a 7.1 scoreless inning streak for the Bucknell bullpen over the last three games.
Thanks to their hits Saturday, Yoder, LaRosa and Doug Shribman extended their hitting streaks to eight games. LaRosa, who is hitting a team-best .531 on the season, now has seven multi-hit games in his eight games played.
The Bison will wrap up play at the Elon Invitational Sunday at 12 p.m. against Princeton.
