April 25, 2008

Box Score

DAYTON, Ohio - Homestanding Dayton was shutout 5-0 by Richmond in the opener of a pivitol Atlantic 10 Conference baseball series Friday at Time Warner Cable Stadium. The Flyers (24-17, 7-9 A-10) will look to get back on track against the Spiders (16-22-2, 7-8-1 A-10) on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. ET in a game that can be followed with Gametracker and FREE Live Audio at www.DaytonFlyers.com.

UD entered with a six-game winning streak following its second-highest scoring output of the season, but could not overcome the first nine-inning complete game shutout by a UR pitcher since 2004. Dayton collected eight hits on the afternoon, but none were for extra bases while Richmond collected 10 base hits of its own.

Ryan Nevill led Dayton with a 3-for-4 effort while Cole Tyrell went 2-for-4 on the day. Three other Flyers had one single each, but UD could not get past UR starter Matt Zielinski who recorded four strikeouts while surrendering no walks in a1119-pitch complete game effort.

Senior Lucas Farden fanned nine batters in 8.0 innings on he mound, but fell to 3-6 on the season. The righthander gave up five runs on 10 hits and one walk in his third start of the season.

Freshman Tim Corbey threw a perfect ninth inning in relief for a Flyer pitching staff that retired the side in order four times.

Richmond got its offense going from the start with a leadoff single. After a strike out and a balk the runner moved to third, but Farden also struck out the third batter in the order to bring cleanup hitter Evan Stehle to the plate for the Spiders with two outs. The UR catcher battled his way to full count and after eight pitches hit his sixth home run of the season to left field for a 2-0 Richmond lead.

The Spiders used a sacrifice fly in the third and a two different RBI singles in the fifth to pad their lead to 5-0 while ther Flyers could get little going offensively. Dayton's best threat came in the seventh inning as Ryan Nevill began the frame with a single to left field. Cole Tyrell followed by ripping a single past the third baseman to give UD two runners on with no outs. However, UR was able to turn a double play in the next at bat and Zielinski struck out a pinch hitter to end the threat as Dayton fell 5-0.