RICHMOND, Va. – Picking up where it left off offensively on Friday, the Saint Joseph's baseball team added an outstanding pitching performance on Saturday as the Hawks routed Richmond, 15-0, at Pitt Field.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Saint Joseph's (10-12 overall, 2-0 Atlantic 10) got on the board right away on Saturday as Ryan Cesarini doubled and scored on a single by Nate Thomas to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead after a half-inning.
 
• Richmond (11-16 overall, 0-2 Atlantic 10) threatened in the bottom of the inning, but starter Ryan DeSanto rolled a double play ball and then got a strikeout to escape a bases-loaded jam.
 
• DeSanto would send down 10 in a row to get the Hawks to the fifth, where the bats reclaimed some of Friday's pop to extend the lead.  Luke Zimmerman led off the inning with a single before Travis Rinker was hit by a pitch.  Brett Callahan followed with a three-run home run to make it a 4-0 game; later in the frame, Thomas would single home Conlan Wall to push the lead to 5-0.
 
• Zimmerman and Rinker kicked off the sixth by getting on base once again before Callahan plated Zimmerman with an RBI single.  Two batters later, Cesarini doubled once again to score Rinker and Callahan and extend the advantage to 8-0.
 
• A Luca Trigiani sacrifice fly in the seventh pushed the lead to 9-0 before a blast measured at 470 feet off the bat of Ryan Picollo extended the margin to 11-0 after eight.
 
• The Hawks added four more in the ninth; one came on Cesarini's third double of the day before a three-run home run by Thomas set the final margin.
 
BEHIND THE BOX SCORE
• DeSanto combined with Matt McShane and Alec Rodriguez for a two-hitter on Saturday; DeSanto earned the win with five shutout innings and six strikeouts.  McShane retired all nine batters he faced before Rodriguez closed out the game.
 
• Brock Weirather took the loss for the Spiders, allowing five runs on six hits in four a two-thirds innings.
 
• Cesarini tied a program record with three doubles in the game; he finished the day 3-for-5 with two runs scored and three driven in.  Callahan reached base five times, going 3-for-4 with two walks, three runs scored, and four RBI, while Thomas also was on board five times, notching four hits and five RBI.
 
UP NEXT
The teams will wrap up the series on Sunday.  First pitch is scheduled for noon.