March 1, 2008
Box Score
Virginia rallied from a 3-1 deficit - its first of the season - to defeat Siena 7-4 Saturday in Charlottesville. Jacob Willis homered off the left field foul pole in the top of the first inning and pitched 3.1 innings of relief allowing just one-run, but the Saints dropped their sixth straight game to start the year.
Rick Seltzer had three of Siena's 11 hits. Willis, Nick Messinger and Jason DeFilippo each had two.
The 16th ranked Caviliers matched the 1924's squad for the bests tart in school history. Virginia starting pitcher Andrew Carraway threw five innings, allowing three runs, eight hits and one walk while striking out six as he improved to 2-0 this season. Michael Schwimer pitched the ninth inning and recorded his third save. Craig Marcellus (0-2) took the loss for Siena (0-6). He went 4.2 innings, giving up six earned runs, eight hits and one walk while fanning two. Phil Gosselin went 3-for-4 to lead Virginia's offense. Ryan Smith and Tyler Cannon each had two hits and Jeremy Farrell added a two-run home run.
The Saints lead to 2-0 following an RBI double by Moises Rivera in the second inning.
Virginia got on the scoreboard in the second as Gosselin stole home as part of a double steal. The Saints got the run back in the fourth on a run-scoring groundout by Michael Ambury.
Virginia knotted the score at three in the fourth on Farrell's two-run home run to right.
UVa broke ahead in the fifth inning. Miclat singled to lead off and scored from first when Cannon tripled to the left-center field gap. One out later, Coleman hit a sacrifice fly to plate Cannon and give the Cavaliers a 5-3 lead. With two outs, Farrell singled, stole second and moved to third on a throwing error. He scored when Gosselin singled to left, giving Virginia a 6-3 lead.
Virginia added a run in the seventh inning, as pinch hitter Dan Grovatt singled to score Gosselin.
Siena cut into the lead in the eighth inning against UVa reliever Neal Davis on a Messinger single, but Kevin Arico came on and induced DeFilippo to ground into an inning-ending double play.
The Saints look for their first win of the season Sunday against Cornell at 11 a.m.
