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Ryan Cesarini hit two home runs on Friday night
14
Winner Richmond RICHMOND 27-31
6
Saint Joseph's SJU 29-26
Winner
Richmond RICHMOND
27-31
14
Final
6
Saint Joseph's SJU
29-26
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Richmond RICHMOND 1 2 3 2 2 0 1 3 0 14 18 1
Saint Joseph's SJU 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 6 8 1

W: Kyle Roche (5-8) L: Ciccone, Frank (0-1) S: Chase Topolski (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball’s Postseason Runs Comes to an End in Atlantic 10 Championship Semifinals

TYSONS, Va. – The Saint Joseph's baseball team saw its thrilling postseason run come to an end on Friday night as the seventh-seeded Hawks fell to fourth-seeded Richmond, 14-6, in the Atlantic 10 Championship semifinals at Capital One Park.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Richmond (27-31) jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first on a groundout by Jack Arcamone and extended the lead to 3-0 in the second on an RBI single by Aaron Whitley and a bases-loaded walk by DJ Pacheco.
 
• Justin Igoe got Saint Joseph's (29-26) on the board in the bottom of the second with a solo home run.
 
• The Spiders tacked on three in the third on a two-out home run by Whitley and extended the margin to 8-1 in the fourth on a two-run single by Aidan O'Keefe.  Pacheco then went deep in the fifth to make it a 10-1 game.
 
• Conlan Wall reached on an error with two outs in the fifth to bring up Ryan Cesarini, who ripped a deep home run over the wall in right.
 
• In the sixth, Tim Dickinson drew a walk and stole second before coming in to score on a double by Ryan Picollo to make it a 10-4 game.
 
• Phil Bernstein added an RBI single for the Spiders in the seventh to restore the seven-run margin, but Cesarini hit his second longball of the game and his fifth of the tournament to cut it back to 11-5 in the bottom of the frame.
 
• The Spiders then added three insurance runs on a single by O'Keefe, a double by Connor Larson, and a fielding error.
 
• Picollo led off the ninth with a double and Brandon Drapeau brought home with a single to set the final margin.
 
BEHIND THE BOX SCORE
• Kyle Roche allowed four runs on five hits in six innings to earn the win for the Spiders, while Frank Ciccone allowed three runs in an inning and a third to take the loss.
 
• Cesarini and Picollo had multi-hit games, while Cesarini drove in three runs and scored two.
 
• Saint Joseph's caps off a season in which the Hawks won 29 games, tied for the third-most in program history.  The six highest win totals in program history have all come in the last 12 seasons.
 
• The Hawks posted their 13th consecutive full season of 20 wins or more and their fourth consecutive winning season, the longest stretch the program has seen since an eight-season run between 1970 and 1977.
 
• SJU made its fourth consecutive appearance in the Atlantic 10 Championship, the longest active streak in the league.  The Hawks won three games in one tournament for the first time in program history and matched the 1971 and 1974 teams for the most wins recorded in a single postseason.
 
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