FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES
BLACKSBURG, Va. – Matt Hamlet and Garret Smith combined for seven hits and six RBIs to help Boston College (9-8, 2-4 ACC) defeat Virginia Tech (7-12, 0-6 ACC), 12-6 in a non-conference game at English Field, Thursday afternoon.
The Eagles pounded out 15 hits, which included four players with multi-hit games. Hamlet went 4-for-6 with a double and two RBIs, while Smith tallied three hits, a double and four RBIs. Mickey Wiswall contributed two hits, including a three-run homer and Michael Belfiore added two hits, two runs and a RBI.
Kevin Moran (1-0) earned his first collegiate win. The freshman allowed three earned runs with a strikeout in 5+ innings of work.
Chris Kowalski worked the final three innings to collect his second save of the season.
Barry Butera started off the game with a leadoff home run to right field, his fifth of the season, to give the Eagles the early lead. BC added three more runs in the inning off Virginia Tech starter Rob Waskiewicz (0-1). Belfiore knocked in Hamlet with a single to left field. Later in the first, Smith hit a two-run single up-the-middle to plate Eric Campbell and Wiswall to push the lead to 4-0.
The Hokies answered with a run in the bottom of the first, when Klint Reed scored from third base on a passed ball.
Virginia Tech added a run in both the second and third frames. Matt Hacker collected a RBI double in the second, while Jose Cueto tallied a sac fly in the third to shrink the Eagles’ lead, 4-3.
BC could not add to its lead until the sixth. Marc Perdios led off the inning with a walk. Smith then reached base on an error. Hamlet hit a two-out two-run double to right field to score Perdios and Smith and give the Eagles a three run advantage, 6-3.
Cuento chased BC’s Moran from the game in the bottom of the sixth with a solo homer to left. Virginia Tech pushed across another run on a sac fly by Hacker.
BC bumped the score back up to 7-5 in the seventh on a RBI double by Smith.
In the eighth, the Eagles tallied two more runs. Smith collected a RBI single to score Belfiore. Perdios came across to score for the second run of the inning on a Hokies’ error to extend the lead, 9-5.
The Eagles tacked on three more runs in the ninth off a three-run blast by Wiswall, his second of the year, to round out the BC scoring, 12-6.
BC will travel to Charlottesville, Va., to play the Virginia Cavaliers at 6 p.m.
