Boston College got a RBI double in the bottom of the 11th inning from Anthony Melchoinda to drive home Matt McGovern from first base and give the Eagles the 5-4 victory.
After the two teams played a scoreless first inning, Virginia would load up the bases with no outs. They would score a run on a Reed Gragnani sacrifice fly to right and on a Keith Werman safety squeeze to take the early 2-0 lead.
BC would bounce right back in the bottom of the second by getting a leadoff single by Andrew Lawrence which was followed by a Mike Sudol walk to put two runners on. After a strikeout and a fielders choice for the first two outs of the inning, Nate LaPointe turned on an inside curveball depositing it over the left field fence to give the Eagles the 3-2 lead.
Virginia tied the score at 3 in the fourth on a RBI groundout with the bases loaded but were not able to scratch across anymore runs in the inning.
The Eagles retook the lead in the sixth on a single by Andrew Lawrence through the right side to bring home Matt McGovern from third to make it 4-3.
Virginia ended up tying the game up at 4 on a RBI single by David Coleman through the right side.
The game remained scoreless with both BC reliever Kyle Prohovich and Virginia’s Justin Thompson trading scoreless innings until the 11th inning heroics by Melchoinda with that double to the right-center field gap and give the Eagles the 5-4 victory over Virginia.
The star of the game was Kyle Prohovich who pitched four scoreless innings to up his record to 3-1 while Justin Thompson got the loss to drop his record to 2-1.
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