For Immediate Release: March 2, 2008
Contact: John Hartrick (hartrick@binghamton.edu)
Phone: 607-777-6800

BU baseball beaten by Virginia Tech 12-1

Box Score

BLACKSBURG, Va.– Host Virginia Tech (6-3) peppered BU pitching for 12 runs on 15 hits en route to a 12-1 win over the Bearcats (2-5) Sunday afternoon at English Field. The potent Hokies have scored in double figures five straight games.

Virginia Tech scored four runs in the second inning, two in the fourth, two in the fifth and three more in the sixth to blow the game wide open. Binghamton got on the board with a run in the eighth frame.

Senior third baseman Ryan James (Wading River, N.Y.), who went 2-for-4, led off the eighth with a single, moved to third on a double by freshman right fielder Peter Bregartner (East Islip, N.Y.) and scored on an RBI groundout b y sophomore left fielder Joe Charron (Schaghticoke, N.Y.).

Binghamton managed just five hits on the afternoon.

The Bearcats open a three-game series at Longwood University on March 8 in Farmville, Va..