Right off, let us admit that Virginia's undefeated (at the time) baseball team took two games from Maryland on Saturday. They won the day end of the twin bill, 7-6, with the winning run scoring in the bottom of the ninth. In the night end, Maryland outhit Virginia but failed with men on base and lost, 5-0. Those wins ran the ranked team's record to 14-0. Maryland fell to 9-5.
What worse, seemingly, is that after losing with its two proven starters on the hill, Maryland had to go into Sunday with two freshmen in the hole. Alex Robinson started, and handed off to fellow freshman Kevin Mooney in the third, after surrendering one run to the Cavaliers. All Mooney did was pitch two and one-third innings of shutout relief to gain his second win without a loss. He had started and threw six shutout innings to beat Princeton in his last outing.
After Mooney, Bobby Ruse pitched another two scoreless innings before Jake Sinnett came on to earn the save, despite allowing three hits and Virginia's other run. Maryland won the game, 4-2. Lamont Wade knocked in two of the runs on a triple and ground out and Charlie White had two hits, a run scored and an RBI from the leadoff spot to lead the Terps, who are now 10-5 overall and 1-2 in the conference. They are scheduled to play a twin bill today against Marist at College Park.
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