2009 KEYDET BASEBALL

 VMI BASEBALL GAME NOTES  VMI BASEBALL GAME NOTES  VMI BASEBALL GAME NOTES  VMI BASEBALL GAME NOTES  VMI (14-26, 7-10 Big South) at Winthrop (25-16, 12-6 Big South) April 24-26; Winthrop Ballpark Probable Starting Pitchers VMI Andrew Deal, Fr., RHP (0-0, 5.55 ERA) vs. WU Robert Lake, So., RHP (4-3, 6.23 ERA) VMI Travis Smink, R-Jr., LHP (5-2, 3.00 ERA) vs. WU Wade Newman, R-So., RHP (4-2, 5.18 ERA) VMI Chris Henderson, Sr., RHP (3-5, 4.48 ERA) vs. WU Matteo D’Angelo, So., RHP (5-1, 3.12 ERA)

Date Opponent Time/Result The VMI baseball team returns to action this On Friday, the Keydets will send out their Feb. 20 at #1 North Carolina L, 3-13 weekend, traveling to Rock Hill, S.C. to take on newest weekend starter, Andrew Deal (0-0, 5.55 Feb. 21 at #1 North Carolina L, 0-6 Winthrop in Big South Conference action. ERA) to oppose Winthrop sophomore Robert Lake Feb. 22 at #1 North Carolina L, 3-11 Feb. 24 Old Dominion W, 4-3 (11) VMI snapped an eight-game losing streak on (4-3, 6.23 ERA). Deal made his first start of the Feb. 25 at Richmond L, 4-10 Wednesday night, defeating Norfolk State 6-5 on season last weekend, allowing just one earned run Feb. 27 Youngstown State L, 6-7 Tanner Biagini’s walk-off single with the bases in 4.1 innings at Radford. Feb. 28 Youngstown State L, 4-9 loaded. Senior Chris Henderson notched his 16th VMI lefty Travis Smink (5-2, 3.00 ERA) March 4 William and Mary W, 7-4 March 6 Rider W, 7-4 (12) career victory, tying him for the second-most in takes the hill for the Keydets on Saturday against March 7 Rider (DH) W, 17-11; L, 8-12 VMI history, by no-hitting the Spartans for 3.1 Winthrop right-hander Wade Newman (4-2, 5.18 March 8 Rider W, 12-11 innings. In fact, the right-hander allowed just ERA). Smink still stands undefeated in six con- March 10 at Norfolk State W, 4-3 one base runner in his time on the mound, with ference starts, going 4-0 with a pair of no deci- March 11 at #18 Virginia L, 3-10 March 14 at Presbyterian * W, 14-4 that coming on a wild pitch following a strikeout. sions. He continues to lead the league in strike- March 15 at Presbyterian * W, 12-10 (8) The Keydets now return to league play look- outs in conference play, while also ranking second March 17 at Virginia Tech L, 5-14 ing to break a five-game conference losing skid. in innings and third in ERA in league games. March 18 at Virginia Tech L, 3-7 VMI was swept last weekend at Radford and now Right-hander Chris Henderson (3-5, 4.48 March 20 UNC Asheville * W, 6-1 March 21 UNC Asheville * W, 13-2 takes on a Winthrop squad that was similarly ERA) gets the nod on Sunday for VMI against March 22 UNC Asheville * L, 4-9 swept at Liberty a week ago. Winthrop sophomore Matteo D’Angelo (5-1, 3.12 March 24 Richmond L, 1-2 (11) The Eagles enter the series at 25-16 overall ERA). Henderson took a hard-luck loss last week- March 27 at Charleston Southern * L, 5-9 (10) and 12-6 in the Big South, having swept three end, working a career-long 9.1 innings while sur- March 29 at Charleston So. (DH) * W, 11-5; L, 2-7 March 31 at VCU L, 8-17 conference opponents while also taking two-of- rendering just three earned runs in a 4-3 loss to April 3 Liberty * W, 13-6 three from nationally-ranked Coastal Carolina ear- Radford. April 4 Liberty * L, 7-9 lier this season. Each contest will be broadcast by the VMI April 5 Liberty * L, 3-4 A season ago, VMI claimed one win against Sports Network. Fans can listen online at April 8 VCU L, 3-9 April 10 Gardner-Webb* W, 21-3 the Eagles at Gray-Minor Stadium, then fell 7-2 www.VMIKeydets.com and locally in Lexington on April 11 Gardner-Webb* (DH) L, 5-8; L, 4-15 to Winthrop in the first game of the Big South WREL 1450 AM. The last two games of the April 14 at James Madison L, 2-20 Championship. The Eagles currently lead the all- series will also feature a live video broadcast on April 15 Longwood L, 8-11 time match-up 13-4, with VMI’s only series win the Big South Edge, available at April 17 at Radford * L, 3-5 April 18 at Radford * L, 3-4 (10) back in 2006, when Winthrop was ranked 16th in www.BigSouthSports.com. Live stats will be April 19 at Radford * L, 4-10 the nation. available for all three games. April 21 at Old Dominion L, 2-6 (10) April 22 Norfolk State W, 6-5 April 24 at Winthrop * 6 p.m. Probable Starters April 25 at Winthrop * 4 p.m. Yr. AVG R 2B 3B HR RBI SLG OBP SB-A April 26 at Winthrop * 2 p.m. 2B A.J. Yoder Sr. .345 30 9 2 2 24 .454 .399 10-16 April 28 at William and Mary 7 p.m. 3B Tanner Biagini Jr. .328 38 12 0 7 29 .514 .370 2-3 April 29 James Madison 6 p.m. 1B Jordan Ballard Jr. .360 29 13 0 8 36 .607 .436 2-4 May 9 at Coastal Carolina * 6 p.m. SS Sam Roberts So. .318 40 5 0 4 21 .432 .434 7-9 May 10 at Coastal Carolina * 6 p.m. RF Brian Sandridge R-Jr. .301 23 9 0 5 23 .469 .365 3-4 May 11 at Coastal Carolina * Noon May 14 High Point * 6 p.m. C Alex Haitsuka So. .284 24 8 2 8 36 .552 .396 1-3 May 15 High Point * 6 p.m. DH Justin Topping Fr. .242 11 5 0 1 12 .326 .324 1-2 May 16 High Point * 6 p.m. LF Graham Sullivan So. .265 14 8 0 4 15 .461 .359 4-4 May 19-23 at Big South Tournament TBD CF Jacob Morley Fr. .259 21 4 1 1 17 .326 .308 12-13 VMI’s Record in 2009..... Keydets Snap Skid With Win Over Yoder’s Hits Keep Coming: Spartans: VMI senior second baseman A.J. Yoder has Overall ...... 14-26 An eight-game losing streak came to an end been a starter since arriving on post. And now, Big South ...... 7-10 when Tanner Biagini delivered a bases-loaded sin- three years later, his name is beginning to appear on numerous career stats lists. Non-Conference ...... 7-16 gle to deep left field, giving VMI a 6-5 victory over Norfolk State on April 22. Yoder is currently sixth on VMI’s career hits At Home ...... 10-11 The Keydets, who had lost no more than chart with 201. The Belleville, Pa. native already ranks second in career triples at VMI with 10, and On the Road ...... 4-15 three consecutive games all season prior to the mid-April slide, improved to 14-0 all-time against is third on the hit by pitch totals. At Home (Big South) ...... 4-5 Norfolk State with the win. And while the overall Additionally, Yoder has a chance to crack the On the Road (Big South) ...... 3-5 series record may be one-sided, a majority of the top ten in runs, doubles, total bases and stolen bases later this season. At Home (Non-Conference) ...... 6-6 games have not been. VMI has now won five games, including both meetings this season, On the Road (Non-Conference) ...... 1-10 against NSU by just one run, while taking four Ballard Named Big South Co-Player In Extra-Inning Games ...... 2-4 more by either two or three runs. of the Week: Senior Chris Henderson notched his 16th Vs. Nationally-Ranked Teams ...... 0-4 VMI first baseman Jordan Ballard was named career victory, tying him for the second-most in the Big South Conference Choice Hotels Co-Player Vs. In-State Teams ...... 5-15 VMI history, by no-hitting the Spartans for 3.1 of the Week for games played March 30-April 5. innings. In fact, the right-hander allowed just one Playing a Day Game ...... 12-24 Ballard (Troy, Va./Monticello) hit .647 (11- base runner in his time on the mound, with that 17) in four games for the Keydets with seven runs Playing a Night Game ...... 2-2 coming on a wild pitch following a strikeout. scored, seven driven in, six doubles and one home In First Game of a Doubleheader ...... 2-1 run. He had multiple hits in each game, including In Second Game of a Doubleheader . . . .0-3 Seven Home Runs Pace Keydets three-hit games in three-straight outings, in addi- tion to a 1.176 slugging percentage and .684 on- In Single Games ...... 12-22 Past GWU: The Keydets slugged a school-record seven base average. In Friday’s win over Liberty, the jun- In one-run games ...... 4-4 home runs on Friday against Gardner-Webb, lead- ior was 3-5 with three doubles and four RBI. The next day, he was 3-3 with a home run, two walks, In two-run games ...... 1-2 ing to a 21-3 win over the Bulldogs. The display set a new school record for VMI, two RBI and two runs scored. In five + run games ...... 7-14 who got two home runs each from Alex Haitsuka When Scoring First ...... 11-8 and Tanner Biagini, while Graham Sullivan, A.J. Haitsuka Plays Long Ball: Over a five-game stretch in early April, sopho- When Opponent Scores First ...... 3-18 Yoder and Michael Devine each contributed single round-trippers. more Alex Haitsuka blasted six home runs, upping When Leading Entering 7th Inning . . . .11-4 The seven dingers broke the school record of his season total to a team-best eight. In game one against Liberty, Haitsuka hit an When Trailing Entering 7th Inning . . . .2-20 five which had been accomplished twice, coming against UNC Asheville (3/18/05) and Savannah RBI triple in the second inning, a three-run homer When Tied Entering 7th Inning ...... 1-2 State (4/1/07). in the fourth and then, following a Brian When Leading Entering 9th Inning . . . .10-1 Sandridge dinger to start the eighth, hit his sec- ond round-tripper of the day. He drove in a When Trailing Entering 9th Inning . . . .1-18 Coming Through In A Pinch: career-best five in the game, a 13-6 VMI win. In that seven-home run game, two of the When Tied Entering 9th Inning ...... 2-5 The next day, Haitsuka’s lone hit came in the blasts came on pinch-hit appearances. Graham form of a three-run home run in the fifth, while his When Scoring 5 Runs or Less ...... 2-21 Sullivan and Michael Devine each delivered pinch- two-run shot in the second inning put VMI on the When Scoring 6+ Runs ...... 12-5 hit home runs, and made history in doing so. board against VCU. The Keydets had not had a pinch-hit home Against Gardner-Webb, he collected his sec- When Allowing 5 Runs or Less ...... 10-4 run in over four years before the Gardner-Webb ond two-home run game in eight days, going 3-for- When Allowing 6+ Runs ...... 4-22 game, with that blast coming off the bat of Klint 4 with six RBI against the Bulldogs in game one. Reed against UNC Asheville on March 18, 2005. When Out-Hitting an Opponent ...... 11-4 He is now tied for the team lead with eight Overall, VMI played 230 games between home runs, two triples and 36 RBI and ranks sec- When Out-Hit by Opponent ...... 2-21 pinch-hit home runs, then notched two in back-to- ond on the team with a .552 slugging percentage When Matching Opponent in Hits ...... 1-1 back innings. and eight multiple-RBI games. He also entered the week tied for fifth in the Big South in home When committing zero errors ...... 5-4 When committing one or more errors . . . .9-22 Scouting the Eagles Tale of the Tape When hitting a Home Run ...... 9-13 Top Hitters AVG 2B HR RBI VMI WU Kevin Nolan .374 10 2 27 .292 Batting Average .314 Vs. Starting LHP ...... 4-6 Eddie Tisdale .371 5 6 41 .366 On-Base Percentage .393 Vs. Starting RHP ...... 10-20 Matt Thielepape .343 9 6 16 .438 Slugging Percentage .447 Wearing White Jerseys ...... 8-4 Cam Walters .333 6 0 18 75 Doubles 86 41 Home Runs 32 Wearing Black Jerseys ...... 3-9 Top Pitchers ERA W-L IP K 47-63 Stolen Bases-Attempts 54-70 Wearing Red “Keydets” Jerseys ...... 1-6 Matteo D’Angelo 3.12 5-1 52.0 35 6.35 Earned Run Average 5.24 Ken Monteith 3.77 3-2 45.1 24 .316 Opponent Batting Average .282 Wearing Red Logo Jerseys ...... 0-1 Wade Newman 5.18 4-2 48.2 36 1.67 Walks + Hits Per IP (WHIP) 1.51 Wearing Gray Jerseys ...... 2-6 Robert Lake 6.23 4-3 52.0 34 .953 Fielding Percentage .967 runs and seventh in RBI Movin’ Up The Charts 2009 Team Almanac Longest Win Streak ...... 3 Career Pitching Roberts Streak Comes to an End: VMI sophomore Sam Roberts’ career-best 14- Longest Losing Streak ...... 8 Earned Run Average (Min. 140 IP) game hitting streak came to an end in game two Most Runs Scored ...... 21, 4/10 vs. GWU 1. John Pate 2.95 1971-73 against Liberty. He was still able to up his on-base Fewest Runs Scored ...... 0, 2/21 at UNC ------percentage, however, reaching base three times in Most Runs Allowed ...... 20, 4/14 at JMU 4. Trey Barham 3.73 2005-08 the contest by being walked, hit by a pitch, and Fewest Runs Allowed ...... 1, 3/20 vs. UNCA 5. Travis Smink 3.87 2006-Pres. reaching on an error. Average Runs Scored ...... 6.25 6. Bryan Augsburger 3.91 1982-85 During his 14-game hitting streak, Roberts hit Average Runs Allowed ...... 7.9 7. Chris Henderson 3.91 2006-Pres. .403 (21-for-52) with nine RBI, 17 runs scored and 11 walks. He also had multiple hits in six of those 8. Jeff DeMara 3.93 2002-05 Individual Highs games. Most Hits ...... 5, (3x) Roberts, who also has seen action in 14 games Opposing Batting Avg. (Min. 140 IP) Most At Bats ...... 7, (3x) on the mound this season, leads VMI with 30 walks 1. Michael Bowman .245 2006-08 Most Runs . . .5, Yoder 4/10 vs. Gardner-Webb and 40 runs scored. 2. Trey Barham .261 2005-08 Most RBI ...... 6, (2x) 3. Jeff DeMara .269 2002-05 Most Stolen Bases . . . .3, Yoder 3/29 at CSU-1 4. Chris Henderson .269 2006-Pres. Henderson Named Big South Pitcher Most IP . . . . .9.1, Henderson 4/18 at Radford 5. J.J. Hollenbeck .278 2003-06 of the Week: Most Strikeouts ...... 8, Smink 3/14 at PC 6. Travis Smink .278 2006-Pres. After allowing one earned run in 10 innings, senior right-hander Chris Henderson was named Big Record By Month Strikeouts Per 9 IP (Min. 140 IP) South Conference New Balance Pitcher of the Week February ...... 1-6 ...... 143 1. Ryan Glynn 8.78 1993-95 for the week ending March 22. March ...... 10-9 ...... 526 Henderson (Fredericksburg, Va./Colonial Forge) ------April ...... 3-11 ...... 214 hurled the fourth complete game of his career on 6. Josh Spradlin 7.54 1997-00 May ...... 0-0 ...... 000 Saturday, allowing one earned run on five hits in a 7. Jay Adams 7.54 1994-95,97-98 13-2 win over UNC Asheville. The right-hander Record By Opponent 8. W.G. Smith 7.49 1994-97 scored his first win of the season by striking out six Non-Conference ...... 7-16 ...... 304 9. Chris Henderson 7.48 2006-Pres. without walking a batter, and allowing only three Big South ...... 7-10 ...... 412 10.Jeremy Harper 7.43 2000-03 base runners through the first 6.2 innings. In addi- tion, he also worked an inning of scoreless relief on Fewest Walks Per 9 IP (Min. 140 IP) Wednesday at Virginia Tech. His line on the week Record By Day 1. Chris Henderson 1.78 2006-Pres. read: 2 GP, 1-0, 0.90 ERA, 10 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 ER, Sunday ...... 3-5 ...... 375 2. Jimmy Thoms 2.56 2002-05 0 BB, 7 SO, .162 opponents’ batting average. Monday ...... 0-0 ...... 000 ------Both of Henderson’s complete games against Tuesday ...... 2-5 ...... 286 7. J.J. Hollenbeck 3.00 2003-06 Big South opponents have come at home when fac- Wednesday ...... 2-5 ...... 286 8. Travis Smink 3.19 2006-Pres. ing UNC Asheville. Thursday ...... 0-0 ...... 000 It marked the third time that Henderson has Friday ...... 4-4 ...... 500 Strikeouts been named Big South Pitcher of the Week in his Saturday ...... 3-7 ...... 300 1. Trey Barham 291 2005-08 career. ------Record vs. Conferences 5. W.G. Smith 204 1994-97 Smink & Henderson Go The Distance: Atlantic Coast ...... 0-6 6. J.J. Hollenbeck 198 2003-06 Against UNC Asheville, starters Travis Smink North Carolina ...... 0-3 7. Jay Adams 193 1994-95,97-98 and Chris Henderson hurled back-to-back complete Virginia ...... 0-1 games for VMI, as the Keydets won the weekend Chris Henderson 193 2006-Pres. Virginia Tech ...... 0-2 series against the Bulldogs. Atlantic 10 ...... 0-2 Wins Smink pitched the second complete game of Richmond ...... 0-2 his career by allowing one run on seven hits against 1. Trey Barham 22 2005-08 Big South ...... 7-10 UNCA. The Keydets scored a 6-1 win behind the 2. Ian Ostlund 16 1998-00 CAA ...... 2-4 left-hander, who retired 10 of the final 11 batters James Madison ...... 0-1 Chris Henderson 16 2006-Pres. that he faced, throwing 119 pitches. Old Dominion ...... 1-1 4. Michael Bowman 14 2006-08 Henderson needed 120 pitches to throw the Travis Smink 14 2006-Pres. fourth complete game of his career. In his start, he VCU ...... 0-2 allowed only five hits and two runs, one earned in a William & Mary ...... 1-0 Career Batting 13-2 win. Henderson allowed only three base run- Horizon ...... 0-2 Hits ners in the opening 6.2 innings, and had multiple Youngstown State ...... 0-2 Independent ...... 0-1 1. Kelly Sweppenhiser 263 2003-06 base runners in only one frame, the ninth. It marked the first time since Jimmy Thoms Longwood ...... 0-1 ------and J.J. Hollenbeck did so that VMI had back-to- MAAC ...... 3-1 5. David Groseclose 206 1992-95 back complete games. Thoms and Hollenbeck Rider ...... 3-1 6. A.J. Yoder 201 2006-Pres. turned the trick on April 8 & 9, 2005 against MEAC ...... 2-0 Longwood. Triples Norfolk State ...... 2-0 1. Louie Napoleon 14 1993-96 Patriot ...... 0-0 Bucknell ...... 0-0 2. A.J. Yoder 10 2006-Pres. Henderson Tops Charts: Big South Standings Senior right-hander Chris Henderson has 2009 Keydet Honors Through Games of April 23 enjoyed an impressive career at VMI, and looks to NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award Big South Overall cap it off in 2009. Watch List W-L GB W-L PCT A three-year weekend starter for the Keydets, Travis Smink Liberty 14-3 - 27-12 .692 Henderson currently ranks tops in VMI’s history in Winthrop 12-6 2.5 25-16 .610 fewest walks per nine innings (1.78), while com- Baseball America Preseason #16 Coastal Carol. 10-4 2.5 30-11 .732 ing in among the top 10 in in ERA (3.91), wins Radford 10-6 3.5 19-15 .559 All-Big South Conference (16), strikeouts (193) and opponents batting aver- Travis Smink Gardner-Webb 9-6 4 20-16 .556 age (.269). High Point 9-9 5.5 17-20 .459 Charleston Sou. 8-11 7 13-28 .317 Baseball America Projected Top VMI 7-10 7 14-26 .350 Keydets Sweep Again In Big South Prospects Presbyterian 4-16 11.5 9-29 .237 Opener: Travis Smink UNC Asheville 4-16 11.5 7-33 .175 For the third consecutive season, VMI opened its Big South campaign with a road sweep, though SEBaseball.com Preseason This Week’s Schedule the 2009 version was not much like anything the Tuesday,April 21 All-Big South Wofford 9, Presbyterian 7 Keydets had seen before. Tanner Biagini (1st Team) Radford 12, Davidson 6 Taking on Presbyterian in the Blue Hose’s Brian Sandridge (2nd Team) #29 Georgia Southern 12, Charleston Southern 1 first year as a member of the Big South, the Sam Roberts (2nd Team) High Point12,Wake Forest 5 Keydets saw Friday’s contest postponed and even- #10 Florida State 9, UNC Asheville 2 tually cancelled due to inclement weather. On Travis Smink (2nd Team) Old Dominion 6 VMI 2 (10 innings) Saturday, the Keydets pounded out a 14-4 win Chris Henderson (2nd Team) Winthrop 7, Charlotte 2 #21 Clemson 5, #16 Coastal Carolina 3 with a season-best 21 hits, before rallying late for Furman 4, Gardner-Webb 3 a 12-10 win in eight innings on Sunday. Rivals.com Preseason All-Big South In all, the Keydets scored 26 runs on 32 hits Brian Sandridge Wednesday,April 22 in the two games. The two-game series marked Liberty 4,Virginia Tech 3 the first conference series that VMI was unable to Big South Player of the Week #10 Florida State 11, UNC Asheville 10 (11 innings) complete since joining the Big South six seasons Furman 6, Charleston Southern 5 Jordan Ballard, Co- (April 6) ago. VMI last played a two-game series back in College of Charleston 17, #16 Coastal Carolina 11 Appalachian State 6, High Point 4 2002, managing only two games each against Big South Pitcher of the Week UNC Greensboro and Appalachian State in the pro- VMI 6, Norfolk State 5 Chris Henderson (March 23) The Citadel 16,Winthrop 11 gram’s Southern Conference days. Presbyterian 7,Wofford 2 With the series win, the Keydets have now East Tennessee State 13,Radford 11 won each of its past five conference-opening VMI Baseball Broadcast series, with the last four of those coming on the Friday,April 24 Schedule Radford at Charleston Southern *, 3 p.m. road. APRIL Liberty at Gardner-Webb *, 3 p.m. Included in those are road sweeps of 24 at Winthrop 6 p.m. Coastal Carolina at Presbyterian *, 3 p.m. Charleston Southern in 2007 and High Point in 25 at Winthrop 4 p.m. (EDGE) 26 at Winthrop 2 p.m. (EDGE) College of Charleston at UNC Asheville, 3 p.m. 2008. 29 James Madison 6 p.m. (EDGE) VMI at Winthrop *, 6 p.m. MAY High Point at East Tennessee State, 7 p.m. 9 at Coastal Carolina 6 p.m. Ike’s Milestones: 10 at Coastal Carolina 6 p.m. (EDGE) Saturday,April 25 With VMI’s wins at Presbyterian, VMI head 11 at Coastal Carolina Noon (EDGE) Radford at Charleston Southern (DH) *, 11:30am coach Marlin Ikenberry hit a pair of milestones. 14 High Point 6 p.m. (EDGE) 15 High Point 6 p.m. (EDGE) Liberty at Gardner-Webb *, 1 p.m. Saturday’s 14-4 win over the Blue Hose High Point at East Tennessee State, 1 p.m. 16 High Point 6 p.m. (EDGE) marked Ikenberry’s 150th win at the Institute. 19-23 Big South Championship TBD (EDGE) Coll. of Charleston at UNC Asheville (DH), 1 p.m. Coastal Carolina at Presbyterian *, 2 p.m. Ikenberry then scored his 50th Big South win with VMI at Winthrop *, 4 p.m. the team’s 12-10 victory over PC on Sunday. All games listed will be available online and on The school’s leader in coaching victories now Lexington’s WREL 1450 AM unless otherwise noted Sunday,April 26 stands 157-158 overall in his five-plus seasons as EDGE- Games will be carried via live video on the Big Liberty at Gardner-Webb *, 1 p.m. the Keydets’ skipper. Coastal Carolina at Presbyterian *, 1 p.m. South Edge at www.BigSouthSports.com. High Point at East Tennessee State, 1 p.m. Schedule subject to change - For updates, please visit VMI at Winthrop *, 2 p.m. Six The Magic Number for VMI: www.vmikeydets.com. In 2009, six runs has been the magic num- Big South Preseason Poll ber for VMI’s success on the diamond. 1. Coastal Carolina (7) When the Keydet bats can score at least six 2. Liberty (2) runs, the team stands 12-5, while falling to 2-21 3. Winthrop (1) when failing to do so. 4. VMI On the flip side, the Keydets are 10-4 when 5. Radford holding opponents to less than six runs, and sit 4- 6. High Point 21 when allowing at least that many. 7. Gardner-Webb 8. UNC Asheville 9. Charleston Southern Roberts Finds Power Stroke: 10. Presbyterian Sophomore Sam Roberts has done a little bit of everything since joining the Keydet program last season. One thing he had not done, howev- Keydet Home Runs er, was hit a home run, at least until early this No. Player Date Opponent Pitcher On Base Inn Outs Count Score Final 1. BALLARD, J. 2/20 at #1 UNC White, A. 0* 4 0 0-0 0-4 L 3-13 season. 2. BALLARD, J. 2/22 at #1 UNC Harvey, M. 2 1 1 3-1 0-0 L 3-11 Against Rider, Roberts went deep in three 3. SANDRIDGE, B. 2/25 at Richmond Falasco, B. 0* 4 0 2-2 1-1 L 4-10 consecutive games, twice to the opposite field, 4. BIAGINI, T. 2/25 at Richmond Falasco, B. 1 5 2 0-0 2-2 L 4-10 as the Prince George, Va. native collected nine 5. HAITSUKA, A. 3/6 Rider Petrowski 2 12 2 1-2 4-4 W 7-4 RBI in the four-game series. 6. MORLEY, J. 3/7 Rider (Gm. 1) Miller 3 5 2 2-0 8-6 W 17-11 Most impressively, Roberts made a winner 7. ROBERTS, S. 3/7 Rider (Gm. 1) Miller 2 5 2 0-0 13-6 W 17-11 of himself on the mound with Sunday’s two-run 8. SULLIVAN, G. 3/7 Rider (Gm. 2) Brown 0 5 1 2-2 9-3 W 12-11 blast in the eighth inning, giving VMI a 12-11 9. ROBERTS, S. 3/7 Rider (Gm. 2) Brown 1 5 0 3-2 3-9 L 8-12 win after he had allowed the go-ahead run to 10. HAITSUKA, A. 3/8 Rider Eppley 0 5 1 2-2 9-3 W 12-11 score for the Broncs in the top of the eighth. 11. ROBERTS, S. 3/8 Rider Petrowski 1 8 1 1-1 10-11 W 12-11 12. BALLARD, J. 3/11 at #18 Virginia Arico 0* 9 0 3-1 3-9 L 3-10 13. SULLIVAN, G. 3/14 at Presbyterian Powell 2 2 1 - 1-2 W 14-4 Morley Leads Keydets Past ODU In 14. SANDRIDGE, B. 3/14 at Presbyterian Hammond 0 9 1 - 13-2 W 14-4 11: 15. BALLARD, J. 3/18 at Virginia Tech Wymer 1 1 2 1-1 0-0 L 3-7 16. ROBERTS, S. 3/20 UNC Asheville Wohlwend 0 4 1 1-2 0-0 W 6-1 Freshman Jacob Morley’s bases-loaded sin- 17. BIAGINI, T. 3/20 UNC Asheville Wohlwend 0* 6 0 2-2 1-1 W 6-1 gle up the middle scored Justin Topping to give 18. BALLARD, J. 3/21 UNC Asheville Bogaert 3 4 2 3-1 5-0 W 13-2 VMI an 11-inning, 4-3 win over Old Dominion on 19. TOPPING, J. 3/29 at Charleston So.-1 McCready 0 3 2 0-1 4-0 W 11-5 Tuesday afternoon at Gray-Minor Stadium. 20. BIAGINI, T. 3/29 at Charleston So.-1 Hustedt 1 8 0 1-2 7-4 W 11-5 Morley went 3-for-4 with a triple and two 21. BIAGINI, T. 4/3 Liberty Evans 1 2 2 0-2 4-1 W 13-6 RBI in the game, hitting out of the ninth spot in 22. HAITSUKA, A. 4/3 Liberty Long 2 4 1 2-1 8-1 W 13-6 the order. Topping went 2-for-4, while Alex 23. SANDRIDGE, B. 4/3 Liberty Curll 0* 8 0 2-1 11-6 W 13-6 Haitsuka collected VMI’s other RBI. 24. HAITSUKA, A. 4/3 Liberty Curll 0 8 0 2-1 12-6 W 13-6 Keydet senior Travis Smink (1-1) picked up 25. HAITSUKA, A. 4/4 Liberty Teufel 2 5 1 0-0 1-5 L 7-9 26. BIAGINI, T. 4/4 Liberty Teufel 0* 7 0 0-1 4-7 L 7-9 the win by working the final 3.2 innings, allow- 27. BALLARD, J. 4/4 Liberty Wilson 0 9 1 0-1 6-9 L 7-9 ing only one hit while striking out six. 28. HAITSUKA, A. 4/8 VCU Andrews 1 2 2 1-2 0-3 L 3-9 VMI moved to 3-0 in home openers since 29. BIAGINI, T. 4/10 Gardner-Webb Haynes 2 1 0 1-1 0-0 W 21-3 opening Gray-Minor Stadium in 2007. 30. HAITSUKA, A. 4/10 Gardner-Webb Haynes 0 1 2 0-0 3-0 W 21-3 31. HAITSUKA, A. 4/10 Gardner-Webb Haynes 3 2 2 3-1 6-0 W 21-3 Ballard Bashes: 32. BIAGINI, T. 4/10 Gardner-Webb Watts 0* 5 0 0-0 13-1 W 21-3 33. YODER, A.J. 4/10 Gardner-Webb Watts 1 6 0 0-1 16-1 W 21-3 On opening weekend against one of the top 34. SULLIVAN, G. 4/10 Gardner-Webb Watts 0 7 1 0-0 18-1 W 21-3 pitching staffs in the country, junior first base- 35. DEVINE, M. 4/10 Gardner-Webb McFarland 1 8 1 0-1 19-3 W 21-3 man made his presence felt, going deep off of 36. SANDRIDGE, B. 4/14 at James Madison Valadja 0* 5 0 0-0 1-10 L 2-20 two of the top hurlers in the country. 37. BALLARD, J. 4/15 Longwood Dickman 1 5 1 2-1 1-9 L 8-11 On opening day, Ballard hit a solo shot in 38. SULLIVAN, G. 4/15 Longwood Dickman 2 7 2 1-1 5-9 L 8-11 the fourth inning off of All-American Alex White 39. BALLARD, J. 4/18 at Radford Pysh 1 4 0 0-1 0-1 L 3-4 to put the Keydets on the scoreboard, part of a 40. SANDRIDGE, B. 4/19 at Radford Williams 0 6 2 1-0 1-2 L 4-1 2-for-5 effort on Friday. On Sunday, Ballard went 41. YODER, A.J. 4/21 at Old Dominion Boggs 1 8 1 - 0-1 L 2-6 2-for-3 with a three-run shot in the first inning * - Leadoff homerun off of freshman All-American Matt Harvey. BOLD- Back-to-Back In the series, Ballard was 4-of-11 (.364) with four RBI, slugging .909 while posting a Keydet Outfield Assists .462 on-base percentage. No. Player (Pos.) Date Opponent Runner Base Inn Final 1. MILLER, C. (RF) 3/6 Rider Ralston 3rd 8th W 7-4 2. ROBERTS, S. (RF) 3/8 Rider Wojnowski Home 2nd W 12-11 VMI Picked Fourth In Preseason: 3. ROBERTS, S. (RF) 3/17 at Virginia Tech Wates 2nd 6th L 5-14 Following a season that saw the Keydets tie 4. MILLER, C. (LF) 3/22 UNC Asheville Vaughn Home 7th L 4-9 for second place in the regular season standings 5. MORLEY, J. (CF) 3/29 at Charleston So.-2 Morian 1st 6th L 2-7 at 14-7, VMI was picked fourth in the Big South 6. MILLER, C. (CF) 4/4 Liberty Brown, Ca. 3rd 3rd L 7-9 Preseason Poll, conducted by the league’s head 7. SANDRIDGE (LF) 4/17 at Radford Turner 2nd 7th L 3-5 8. MILLER, C. (CF) 4/21 at Old Dominion Hernandez 3rd 8th L 2-6 coaches. In the poll, Coastal Carolina drew seven of campaign. The Keydets, however, did set some year by earning a nod on the National Collegiate the ten first-place votes, followed by Liberty and history last year, going 14-7 in the Big South to Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Stopper of Winthrop. VMI placed fourth, just ahead of tie the school mark for league winning percent- the Year Award Watch List this preseason. Radford and High Point. age. In his career, Smink, who was a 2006 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American, is 9-6 Keydets Keep It Rolling: Smink Earns Stopper Nod: with nine saves. Also this preseason, Smink was included on Baseball America’s Top Prospects In 2008, VMI kept the good times rolling, A season ago, Travis Smink did a standout listing for the Big South Conference. posting its third straight winning season for the job in a relief role for the Keydets, converting The Stopper of the Year listing marked the first time in 52 years. seven saves while going 2-1 in a team-high 19 second time that a VMI player has been named After breaking the school record for wins in appearances. to the list, joining Kevin Crum who was so hon- both 2006 (30-25) and 2007 (34-21), the Despite shifting to the weekend rotation ored in 2007. Keydets came up just short in last year’s 29-26 this season, Smink was honored for his work last 2009 Freshmen In Elite Company: Last fall, the 2009 VMI baseball signing Movin’ Up The Charts class was included in Collegiate Baseball’s annu- Single-Season Hitting al rankings. Slugging Percentage In their 26th annual recruiting rankings, Collegiate Baseball included VMI in their listing 1. Greg Weddle .865 1986 of Other Top Recruiting Classes, following their ------rankings of the nation’s top 40 classes. The 7. Robert Crumpler .655 2007 Keydets were one of two Big South programs 8. Scott Snow .651 1977 honored on the list, as Liberty was also included 9. Mike Lamore .651 1985 among the Others list. 10.Scott Thompkins .641 1999 The ranking was the second such listing for -- Jordan Ballard .607 2009 the class. Last spring, PGCrosschecker.com list- ed VMI’s class as #88 on its rankings of the On-Base Percentage nation’s top classes. 1. Mike Lamore .518 1985 ------Keydets Sign Eight Early: 4. Kevin Thrift .488 1975 Head coach Marlin Ikenberry and his coach- 5. Criss Finwood .481 1988 ing staff announced the early signings of eight players to the VMI Baseball Class of 2013 last 6. Kelly Sweppenhiser.479 2006 fall. The class includes two sets of high school 7. Chris Catanzaro .476 2000 teammates among the seven players from the 8. Ben Walker .474 1985 Commonwealth of Virginia, while another hails 9. Ben Bradford .471 1999 from Pennsylvania. 10.Phil Hubbard .468 1982 The program’s early signees are Matt -- Jordan Ballard .436 2009 Armstead (Newport News, Va./Menchville), Coby Cowgill (Norfolk, Va./Maury), John Garrett Runs Batted In (Norfolk, Va./Maury), Erickson Keeton (Suffolk, 1. Greg Weddle 62 1986 Va./Nansemond River), Miles McQuaig (Midlothian, Va./Midlothian), Ombri Rivers ------(Suffolk, Va./Nansemond River), Cory 9. Franco Martin 45 1997 Spangenberg (Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington 10.Mike Roberts 44 2008 Heights), and Travis Thomas (Spotsylvania, -- Alex Haitsuka 36 2009 Va./Riverbend). -- Jordan Ballard 36 2009 “Overall, this is an outstanding recruiting class and ranks among the best in school histo- Total Bases ry,” said Ikenberry. “These young men have won 1. Robert Crumpler 129 2007 for their high school, Legion and AAU teams. ------They are not only great baseball players, but are also great leaders on and off the field. We are 8. Stephen Johnson 109 2000 very excited about working with each one of them 9. Greg Weddle 108 1985 to attain their goals.” Kelly Sweppenhiser 108 2006 -- Jordan Ballard 91 2009 Armstead Listed As High School -- Tanner Biagini 91 2009 All-American: Incoming VMI baseball signee Matt Runs Scored Armstead was named to the 2009 Louisville 1. Kelly Sweppenhiser 58 2006 Slugger Pre-Season High School All-American ------Second Team this February. 9. Scott Thompkins 48 1997 Armstead (Newport News, Va./Menchville) 10.Matt Smith 45 2004 hit .531 with 10 doubles, four triples and four Klint Reed 45 2006 home runs as a junior, collecting 22 RBI while -- Sam Roberts 40 2009 stealing 18 bases. On the mound, he notched -- Tanner Biagini 38 2009 three saves and posted an 0.98 ERA, striking out 34 hitters in 22 innings. A First Team All- Region selection as an outfielder, Armstead plays Walks for a Menchville team that could challenge for a 1. Franco Martin 44 1994 Virginia AAA state title this season. ------In addition, each of VMI’s eight signees 8. Andy Beasley 33 1988 were tabbed as Players to Watch by Collegiate 9. Criss Finwood 32 1985 Baseball. Ryan Colvin 32 2001 Matt Smith 32 2005 -- Sam Roberts 30 2009 Head Coach Marlin Ikenberry When Was The Last Time VMI...... Overall Big South Scored 20 or more runs in a game ...... 21, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 2004 23-32 4-20 Had 20 or more hits in a game ...... 25, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 2005 27-28 11-13 Scored 10 or more runs in an inning ...... 11, at Birmingham-Southern, April 22, 2006 2006 30-25 9-15 Allowed 20 or more runs in a game ...... 20, at JMU, April 14, 2009 2007 34-21 10-11 Allowed 20 or more hits in a game ...... 21, at JMU, April 14, 2009 2008 29-26 14-7 Was shutout ...... at #1 North Carolina (6-0), February 21, 2009 2009 14-26 7-10 Shutout an opponent ...... at High Point-Game 2 (3-0), March 22, 2008 Totals 157-158 55-76 Pitched back-to-back complete games . . .vs. UNCA (Smink & Henderson), March 21-22, 2009 Hit back-to-back home runs ...... vs. Liberty, (Sandridge & Haitsuka), April 3, 2009 Hit 5 or more home runs in a game . . . .7, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 (School Record) Ikenberry on the VMI Coaching List By Wins Had two players with five hits in a game . .vs. UMES, (S. Roberts, 6 & Hess, 5), May 9, 2008 1. Marlin Ikenberry (2004-current) 157 Had two players with two home runs in a game .vs. GWU (Haitsuka & Biagini), April 10, 2009 2. Scott Gines (1995-2000) 104 Allowed an Opponent 3 hits or less ...... 1, vs. Coppin State, April 14, 2007 Allowed an Opponent 1 hit or less ...... 1, vs. Coppin State, April 14, 2007 Multiple Hit Games Swept a Conference series at home ...... vs. Charleston Southern, May 16-18, 2008 2345+Tot. Swept a Conference series on the road ...... at Presbyterian (2 games), March 14-15, 2009 Jordan Ballard 10 6 1 1 18 Swept a Conference series on the road (3 games) ...... at High Point, March 21-22, 2008 Tanner Biagini 14 3 1 - 18 Beat a Ranked Team ...... vs. #15 Coastal Carolina (4-3), April 28, 2008 A.J. Yoder 10 5 - 2 17 Won a Series Against a Ranked Team ...... vs. #16 Winthrop, May 19-21, 2006 (First-Ever) Sam Roberts 8 3 1 - 12 Won a Postseason Game ...... vs. #5 Furman (2-1), May 23, 2003 (SoCon Tournament) Brian Sandridge 8 4 - - 12 Was Ranked In A National Poll ...... March 19, 2007, #30 by Collegiate Baseball Alex Haitsuka 7 2 - - 9 Jacob Morley 5 3 - - 8 When Was The Last Time A Keydet...... Justin Topping 6 1 - - 7 Had five hits in a game ...... A.J. Yoder, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 Graham Sullivan 7 - - - 7 Scored five runs in a game ...... A.J. Yoder, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 George Piccirilli 3 - - - 3 Had seven RBI in a game ...... Robert Crumpler, vs. Fairfield, March 7, 2005 Colin Miller 1 - - - 1 Hit three doubles in a game ...... Jordan Ballard, vs. Liberty, April 3, 2009 Chase Worthington 1 - - - 1 Hit two triples in a game ...... A.J. Yoder, vs. Savannah State, March 31, 2007 TEAM 80 27 3 3 113 Hit a grand slam ...... Alex Haitsuka, April 10, 2009 Multiple RBI Games Hit an inside-the-park home run ...... Mike Roberts, at Auburn, March 6, 2008 2345+Tot. Had a pinch-hit home run ...... Michael Devine, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 Jordan Ballard 6311 11 Hit two home runs in a game . . . . .A. Haitsuka & T. Biagini, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 Alex Haitsuka 3 3 - 2 8 Hit home runs in consecutive at bats ...... Alex Haitsuka, vs. Gardner-Webb, April 10, 2009 A.J. Yoder 5 2 - - 7 Had a walk-off RBI ...... Tanner Biagini (1B), vs. Norfolk State, April 22, 2009 Sam Roberts 2 3 - - 5 Tanner Biagini 3 - 2 - 5 Had a walk-off hit ...... Tanner Biagini (1B), vs. Norfolk State, April 22, 2009 Brian Sandridge 4 - - - 4 Hit a walk-off home run ...... Alex Haitsuka (HR), vs. Rider, March 6, 2009 Jacob Morley 3 - - 1 4 Hit for the cycle ...... Kelly Sweppenhiser, vs. Coppin State, February 19, 2006 Justin Topping 2 - 1 - 3 Had two hits in an inning ...... Sam Roberts, vs. Rider (Game 1), March 7, 2009 George Piccirilli 2 - - - 2 Stole home ...... Graham Sulilvan (Double steal), vs. Rider, March 8, 2009 Graham Sullivan - 2 - - 2 Stole five bases in a game ...... Shane Geisslinger, vs. Richmond, April 12, 2006 Colin Miller 1 - - - 1 Struck out 10 or more batters .Michael Bowman (10), vs. Charleston Southern, May 16, 2008 Michael Devine 1 - - - 1 Struck out 12 or more batters ...... Trey Barham (12), at James Madison, May 17, 2006 Steele Myers 1 - - - 1 Struck out 15 or more batters . . . .Grayson Craun (15), vs. Appalachian State, April 11, 1998 TEAM 33 13 4 4 54 Pitched a complete game (9 inn.) . . . . .Chris Henderson, vs. UNC Asheville, March 21, 2009 Hitting Streaks Threw a shutout (9 inn.) ...... J.J. Hollenbeck, vs. North Carolina A&T, May 13, 2006 Longest Current Had a hitting streak of at least 15 games . . . .Robert Crumpler, Feb. 23-March 22, 2005 (15) Sam Roberts 14 - Hit .400 in a season (Minimum 150 at bats) ...... Greg Weddle, .446, 1986 A.J. Yoder 13 4 Tanner Biagini 11 6 Getting Started Brian Sandridge 8 - Quality W-L in VMI Record Avg. IP ERA George Piccirilli 8 - Pitcher Starts Starts Starts In Starts Per Start In Starts Run Support Justin Topping 7 - Chris Henderson 9 4 2-5 3-6 6.0 4.88 7.44 Alex Haitsuka 7 1 Travis Smink 8 5 4-1 5-3 6.2 3.44 9.00 Graham Sullivan 7 4 Jeremy Brown 5 0 0-4 0-5 3.1 5.51 3.20 Jordan Ballard 7 - Adam Kruithof 4 0 0-2 0-4 3.2 4.50 4.00 Jacob Morley 4 2 John Phelps 4 1 1-0 2-2 4.0 4.60 7.00 Steele Myers 3 1 Michael Devine 4 0 0-2 2-2 3.2 10.93 8.50 Colin Miller 2 1 Adam Lopez 2 0 1-0 2-0 4.2 1.93 5.00 Chase Worthington 1 - Sam Roberts 1 0 0-1 0-1 2.0 22.50 2.00 Andrew Deal 1 0 0-0 0-1 4.1 2.08 4.00 Kyle Goodale 1 1 Matt Edwards 1 0 0-0 0-1 5.0 1.80 2.00 Michael Devine 1 - Karter Rivera 1 0 0-1 0-1 1.0 27.00 3.00 Brooks Martin 1 - Totals 40 10 8-16 14-26 4.2 4.94 6.25 David Lottman 1 - *- Quality Start consists of at least 6.0 innings pitched and no more than 3 earned runs allowed VMI Hitters Notes

# 26 Jordan Ballard, Jr., R/R (Troy, Va./Monticello) .360 AVG, 13 2B, 8 HR, 29 R, 36 RBI, 2-4 SB 1B - Leads team with a .360 AVG, 13 2B, 8 HR (tied), a .607 SLG, 91 total bases (tied), 18 multiple-hit games (tied) and 11 multiple-RBI games - Entered the week ranked fifth in the Big South in SLG, doubles (tied) and home runs (tied), sixth in total bases, seventh in RBI (tied) and 10th in OBP - Has started all but two games this season at first base - Went 4-for-5 with a home run and two RBI against Longwood (4/15) - Named Co-Big South Player of the Week (4/6) after posting multiple-hit outings in each of four games, collecting six doubles, seven runs and seven RBI - Tied a school record with three doubles, going 3-for-5 with four RBI in a 13-6 win against Liberty (4/3) - Set a new career-best with six RBI by going 3-for-3 with a two-run double and a grand slam in game two against UNC Asheville (3/21) - Against four ACC opponents this season (six games), hit .368 (7-for-19) with four home runs, five runs scored, seven RBI and a 1.000 SLG - Hit home runs at Virginia (3/11) and Virginia Tech (3/18), going 3-for-8 combined in those two outings - Went 5-for-5 with three RBI against William & Mary (3/4) - On opening weekend, hit .364 with a .909 SLG against #1 North Carolina, going deep off of All-American Alex White and Freshman All-American Matt Harvey - In 2008, led VMI with 12 home runs, a .533 slugging percentage and 20 multiple-hit games; Ranked sixth in the Big South in home runs last season - As a sophomore, ranked second on the team with 10 doubles, 39 RBI and 106 total bases - Had a career-best ten-game hitting streak last season, during which he went 16-for-43 (.372) with four doubles, two home runs, six RBI and eight runs - Hit a three-run home run in the ninth inning of game two at High Point to bring the Keydets from behind for a 5-3 win - Posted three multiple hit games at Auburn last season, going 7-for-16 (.438) with a home run and three RBI

# 24 Tanner Biagini, Jr., R/R (Greenville, N.C./D.H. Conley) .328 AVG, 12 2B, 7 HR, 38 R, 29 RBI, 2-3 SB 3B - Is tied for the team lead with 91 total bases and 18 multiple-hit games while ranking second with 58 hits, 12 doubles, and 38 runs scored - Entered the week ranked sixth in the Big South in hits (tied) and ninth in total bases - Has started each game this season at third base and has reached base safely in all but four games - Saw his 11-game hitting streak snapped at JMU (4/14); Now has hits in 26 of his past 28 outings - Had a bases-loaded, walk-off single as VMI snapped an eight-game losing streak, defeating Norfolk State, 6-5 (4/22) - Had the first multiple home run game of his career by going 4-for-6 with two home runs and four RBI in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10) - Was 3-for-6 with a home run, four RBI and three runs scored in game two at Charleston Southern (3/29) - This season, was tabbed Preseason All-Big South First Team by SEBaseball.com - Named First Team All-State as a sophomore, leading the Keydets with 74 hits, 46 RBI and 114 total bases - Also ranked second on the team with .343 average, .528 slugging percentage, .417 OBP, 10 doubles, 41 runs scored and 12 multiple-RBI games in 2008 - His 74 hits were the 2nd-most by a Keydet in a single season (tied), while his 46 RBI (tied) and 114 total bases each ranked seventh VMI’s single-season charts - During a career-best 14-game hitting streak that dated back to 2007, hit .500 (26-for-52) with 3 HR and 15 RBI

# 39 Tyler Brown, Fr., R/R (Lynchburg, Va./Jefferson Forest) .000, 1 AB, 1 R OF - Scored his first collegiate run against Norfolk State (4/22), the winning run in VMI’s 6-5 victory that snapped an eight-game losing streak - Made his collegiate debut in game three against Gardner-Webb (4/11) - Named Second Team All-District after hitting .333 with a .457 on-base percentage and 10 stolen bases at Jefferson Forest - Earned 2008 Under Armor Preseason All-American accolades and was a part of three District Championship teams

# 25 Michael Devine, Fr., R/R (Cheswick, Pa./Springdale) .071 AVG, 1 HR, 2 R, 2 RBI 1B/RHP - Collected his first collegiate hit, a two-run home run, in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10) - Saw his first action as a position player in game one at Presbyterian (3/15), playing first base for the final four innings - Has pitched in 13 games with four starts this season - First Team All-State at shortstop and four times was named All-Section - As a pitcher, holds high school records for wins, strikeouts and ERA as a pitcher and home runs and RBI as a hitter

# 18 Collin Flaherty, Fr., R/R (Vienna, Va./James Madison) .000 AVG, 1 AB C/OF - Had a pinch-hit appearance on opening day at #1 North Carolina (2/20) - Earned Second Team All-District honors as an outfielder his junior season, hitting .420 with 4 HR, 30 RBI, a .529 SLG, a .507 OBP and 15 SB - Helped Madison to their second straight District Championship

# 33 Kyle Goodale, R-Fr., R/R (Media, Pa./Penncrest) .222 AVG, 2 RBI C - Has started three behind the plate and appeared in eight other games - Had his first collegiate hit, an RBI single, at Norfolk State (3/10) - Had a strong fall campaign to put himself in the mix as the backup catcher - Did not see game action last season and took a redshirt year - Three-year letterwinner as a catcher at Penncrest, where he earned Honorable Mention All-Delco honors

# 28 Alex Haitsuka, So., R/R (Alexandria, Va./T.C. Williams) .284 AVG, 8 2B, 2 3B, 8 HR, 24 R, 36 RBI C - Is tied for the team lead with eight HR, two triples and 36 RBI and ranks second on the team with a .552 slugging percentage and eight multiple-RBI games - Entered the week tied for fifth in the Big South in home runs and seventh in RBI - Had a stretch with six home runs in five games, driving in 16 runs during the stretch - Has started all but three games behind the plate this season - Went 3-for-4 with two home runs and a career-best six RBI in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10); It was his second 2-HR game in eight days VMI Hitters Notes

- Went 3-for-5 with a triple and two home runs, along with five RBI, in game one against Liberty (4/3), a 13-6 win - Had a three-run double in game one at Charleston Southern (3/27) and a two-run single in game two vs. the Bucs (3/29) - Went 2-for-5 with a walk-off, three-run home run in the 12th inning against Rider (3/6) - Had a career-best seven-game hitting streak earlier this season, hitting .333 with six RBI - Saw action in 31 games last season, making 21 starts behind the plate as a freshman - Improved down the stretch last year, reaching base safely in 12 of the last 13 games that he started while hitting .310 in 11 Big South starts - Threw out 12-of-36 opposing basestealers in 2008 - After an injury to starting catcher Mike Roberts, caught 15 innings of a doubleheader against HPU, as VMI swept HPU on opening weekend in League play - Named Patriot District Player of the Year after hitting .380 with five home runs and 25 RBI as a senior; Played third base, catcher, outfield and pitcher

# 16 Brooks Martin, Fr., R/R (Richmond, Va./Deep Run) .333, 1 R OF - Had his first collegiate hit, a single into center field, in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10) - Made his first collegiate at bat against VCU (3/31), reaching on an error in right field and scoring a run - Four-year letterwinner as an outfielder at Deep Run, where he helped the team to an appearance in the Virginia AAA State Championship game as a junior - Richmond Times-Dispatch First Team All-Metro selection as a senior and Honorable Mention All-State accolades as a junior

# 30 Colin Miller, So., R/R (Delaplane, Va./Fauquier) .212 AVG, 1 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI, 1-1 SB OF - Has appeared in 26 games this season in the outfield, playing each of the three outfield positions - Had a pair of RBI at VCU (3/31) on a groundout and a single - Made his first start of the season in left field in game three against UNC Asheville (3/22), going 1-for-4 with an outfield assist - Had a pinch-hit single in game two versus UNC Asheville (3/21) - Went 2-for-3 with a double and an outfield assist against Rider (3/6) - Went 2-for-5 after entering the game in the seventh inning to play center field in VMI’s 16-inning win at Liberty (4/19) last season - As a junior in HS, hit .340 and was not thrown out on the basepaths; Was credited with two outfield assists at home plate while playing CF in a District game

# 8 Jacob Morley, Fr., R/R (Annandale, Va./W.T. Woodson) .259 AVG, 4 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 21 R, 17 RBI, 12-13 SB OF - Has stepped into a starting role in center field as a freshman, starting all but four games and appearing in all but two games this season - Had a two-run double to right-center field in VMI’s 6-5 win over Norfolk State (4/22) - Had a pair of hits, stole two bases and scored two runs in VMI’s 14-4 Big South-opening win over Presbyterian (3/14) - Went 3-for-4 with two RBI and a walk-off single to give VMI its first win of the season, coming against Old Dominion (2/24) - Hit a grand slam, his first collegiate home run, against Rider (3/7) - Named Liberty District Player of the Year, earned All-Met Honorable Mention accolades from the Washington Post and was honored as All-Region as a senior - Hit .439 with a .621 slugging percentage and a .519 on-base percentage, scoring 17 runs and driving in 12 runs last season - Earned Co-District Player of the Year as a junior while playing the outfield, along with First Team All-Region and Second Team All-State Honors

# 6 Steele Myers, Fr., R/R (Chapel Hill, N.C./Jordan) .161 AVG, 1 2B, 1 3B, 2 R, 4 RBI MIF - Has appeared in 20 games this season, including 15 starts - Had a triple in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10) and a double in game three against the Bulldogs (4/11), scoring on each occasion - Had a three-game hitting streak snapped in game two against Liberty (3/4) - In his first collegiate at bat, singled against #1 North Carolina in his hometown of Chapel Hill, N.C. - Earned All-State recognition as a junior, hitting .513 with eight home runs, 34 RBI, a .974 slugging percentage and eight stolen bases - Named PAC-6 Player of the Year and helped Jordan to a Conference Championship

# 17 Jeremy Peed, Fr., R/R (Roxboro, N.C./Person County) .000 AVG, 3 AB OF - Has appeared in six games this season, with the first three of them coming against ACC opponents - Made his collegiate debut at #18 Virginia (3/11), playing the eighth inning in right field, recording a putout - Three-time All-Conference selection at Person County - Hit .430 with nine doubles, a home run and 26 RBI at the plate and went 6-2 on the mound with a 2.73 ERA as a junior - Named Best All-Around Athlete and Media Athlete of the Year at Person Co. & was listed among Players to Watch in the Triangle Area by Raleigh News & Observer

# 2 George Piccirilli, Fr., R/R (Manassas, Va./Osbourn Park) .268 AVG, 7 R, 7 RBI, 1-1 SB C - Has played in 16 games this season, starting 12, with 11 of those at DH; Made his first start in the field at first base in game one at Virginia Tech (3/17) - In his first eight starts at designated hitter, was 11-of-25 (.440) with hits in each contest - Was 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored in game two at Presbyterian (3/15); Plated the eventual winning run in the seventh with a single into right field - Honored as First Team All-Region as a catcher and Second Team All-State; Also named Second Team All-Met by the Washington Post as a senior - Hit .517 with five home runs and 24 RBI while striking out only three times while going 6-1 on the mound with 51 strikeouts in 38 innings

# 4 Sam Roberts, So., L/R (Prince George, Va./Prince George) .318 AVG, 5 2B, 4 HR, 40 R, 21 RBI, 7-9 SB IF/OF/RHP - Has started each game this season, with all but one coming in right field; the other came on the mound, where he has made 13 relief apperances - Leads the team with 30 walks and 40 runs scored while ranking second on the team with a .434 on-base percentage - Entered the week ranking second in the Big South in walks and seventh in runs scored (tied) - Has reached base safely in all but four games this season - Against Gardner-Webb, was 6-for-12 (.500) with four runs scored, a double and three walks VMI Hitters Notes

- Saw his career-best 14-game hitting streak end in game two vs. Liberty (4/4), during which he was 21-for-52 (.404) with nine RBI, 17 runs scored and 11 walks - Hit home runs in three straight games against Rider, the first three of his career; in the series vs. the Broncs, was 8-for-15 (.533) with 3 HR, 9 RBI and 7 R - Went 4-for-4 with a home run and three RBI in game two against Rider (3/7), then hit a home run to give himself the win on the mound in the series finale (3/8) - Named to All-Ping! Freshman Team after leading VMI with a .348 batting average, 14 doubles, a .431 on-base percentage and 28 walks - Threw out seven base runners from right field, including three at the plate, last season - Was sixth in the Big South in stolen bases and seventh in both batting average and on-base percentage as a freshman - Tied school record for hits in a game by going 6-for-7 against Maryland-Eastern Shore (5/9), collecting five singles, a double, four runs scored and three RBI - Brother of former VMI catcher and 2008 Milwaukee Brewers draftee Mike Roberts - Earned First Team All-Central District honors at SS & UTIL as a high school senior; Also a Two-time First-Team All-Metro, All-Region and All-Tri Cities selection - Hit .548 with 20 RBI as a senior while going 3-3 with 31 strikeouts and a 1.70 ERA - Had a career 23-5 record on the mound while also hitting above .400 each season at Prince George, where he played for his father, Mickey Roberts

# 31 Brian Sandridge, R-Jr., R/R (Brownsburg, Va./Rockbridge Co.) .301 AVG, 9 2B, 5 HR, 23 R, 23 RBI, 3-4 SB OF - Has started all but two games this season - Posted back-to-back three-hit games against JMU (4/14), when he went 3-for-3 with a double and a home run, and Longwood (4/15) - Had his eight-game hitting streak snapped against VCU (4/8), Also had hits in 13 of his last 14 games, hitting .377 with 13 RBI during the stretch - Was 3-for-4 with a home run, two hit by pitches, three runs scored and two RBI in VMI’s 14-4 win over Presbyterian (3/14) - Named to Rivals.com Preseason All-Big South squad and to the Preseason All-Big South Second Team by SEBaseball.com - As a redshirt sophomore, did a majority of his damage in Big South play, leading VMI with a .374 average, 34 hits, 18 RBI, 5 HR and a .582 SLG - Had a career-best 14-game hitting streak last season, during which he hit .412 (28-for-68) with four doubles, two home runs, 14 RBI - Earned Big South Player of the Week honors last April 7, posting three multiple-hit games as VMI went 4-0 on the week, hitting .417 with eight RBI - Hit a three-run, walk-off home run to give VMI a 4-3, 11-inning victory in game one against Radford (4/6) - A key contributor to the team down the stretch in 2007, leading all VMI freshmen with a .293 average and 17 RBI while seeing action in 37 contests - Attended Rockbridge County High School in Lexington, Va.; Redshirted the 2006 campaign

# 23 Graham Sullivan, So., R/R (Manassas, Va./C.D. Hylton) .265 AVG, 8 2B, 4 HR, 14 R, 15 RBI, 4-4 SB IF - Has started 27 games this season, with a majority coming at shortstop - Was 2-for-3 with a walk and an RBI in VMI’s 6-5 win over Norfolk State (4/22); His leadoff walk in the ninth represented the eventual game-winning run - Collected a three-run home run against Longwood (4/15) - Hit a pinch-hit home run in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10), becoming the first Keydet in over four years to do so - Had reached base safely in 14 straight games with hits in 12 of the 14 until the streak ended in game three against UNC Asheville (3/22) - Was 2-for-6 with a three-run home run and two runs scored in a 14-4 win over Presbyterian (3/14) - Saw action in 26 games, starting 12, as a freshman, making starts at shortstop, first base, third base and designated hitter - Last summer, made the Clark Griffith League All-Star team while playing for the Arlington (Va.) Diamonds - Led the Diamonds with a .298 AVG, 5 HR, 18 RBI, 61 TB, and a .492 OBP

# 5 Justin Topping, So., R/R (Suffolk, Va./Nansemond River) .242 AVG, 5 2B, 1 HR, 11 R, 12 RBI, 1-2 SB OF/C - Has started 26 games this season at designated hitter - Slugged his first career home run in the third inning of game two at Charleston Southern (3/29); Also had a double and went 3-for-5 with two RBI - On the weekend against UNC Asheville, hie .364 (4-for-11) with two doubles, two runs scored and five RBI - Came on to pinch run in game two at Presbyterian (3/15), scoring the go-ahead run in the 7th before delivering a two-run single in the 8th of a 12-10 VMI win - Went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored on opening day at #1 North Carolina (2/20) - In his final eight games started as a freshman, went 14-for-34 (.412) with five doubles, 10 RBI and nine runs scored - Made his first appearance in the field at catcher in the ninth inning against High Point (3/22), a 5-3 Keydet win - As a HS senior, hit .516 with 27 RBI and a 20-game hitting streak, earning both Eastern Region First Team honors and Southeastern District Player of the Year

# 34 Chase Worthington, Fr., R/R (Mechanicsville, Va./Atlee) .286 AVG, 1 R IF - Has appeared in seven games - In his collegiate debut, came in to play third base at #1 North Carolina (2/22) and went 2-for-2 at the plate - Three times named All-District at Atlee, hitting .413 with five home runs and 33 RBI as a senior - Earned Team MVP honors and was named Honorable Mention All-Region as a shortstop - Is the cousin of singer Jason Mraz

# 10 A.J. Yoder, Sr., L/R (Belleville, Pa./Indian Valley) .345 AVG, 9 2B, 2 3B, 2 HR, 30 R, 24 RBI, 10-16 SB IF - Leads VMI with 60 hits and two triples (tied) while ranking second on the team with 10 stolen bases and a .345 batting average - Entered the week leading the Big South in at bats and ranks fifth in hits and tied for seventh in triples - Has started each game this season at second base - Went 2-for-3 and reached base four times from the leadoff spot in VMI’s 6-5 win over Norfolk State (4/22) - Slugged his second home run of the season, a two-run shot to put VMI up 2-1, in the eighth inning at Old Dominion (4/21) - Went 5-for-6 with five runs scored, a double, a home run and three RBI in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10) - Saw his career-best 13-game hitting streak snapped in game one at Virginia Tech (3/17); During streak was 23-for-60 (.383) - Had a career-best five hits, going 5-for-7 with a double and two RBI in game one at Presbyterian (3/14) - Plated the winning run in the 16th inning with a single into center field against Liberty (4/19), going 2-for-7 in the game - Ranked as eighth-toughest player to strikeout in the nation as a freshman, doing so once every 18.6 AB Friday’s Starter Andrew Deal Freshman  Right-Handed Pitcher  6-2  190  R/R Chester, Va.  L.C. Bird DEAL’S CAREER STARTS 2009 IP H R ER BB SO DEC 32 4/19 Radford 4.1 42111 - Has impressed out of the bullpen this season and is now an option as a starting pitcher. 2009: Has made 12 relief outings and one start this season, with opponents hitting only .250 against the right-hander...Matched his career-long in his first colle- giate start, allowing just one earned run in 4.1 innings at Radford (4/19)...Worked a career-long 4.1 innings in relief against Gardner-Webb (4/11), allowing just two runs while striking out a career-best six...Worked a perfect 1.2 innings in relief against Liberty (4/4), striking out two...Struck out five in 3.1 innings of scoreless relief against Richmond (3/24); Surrendered just two hits and one walk.

High School: Three-year letterwinner as a pitcher at L.C. Bird…Earned a complete game win over top- ranked Cosby in the District Tournament as a senior, striking out nine while allowing only four hits in a 4-3 win…As a junior, went 4-1 with a 2.09 ERA…Member of the Junior Honor Society.

Personal: Son of Donald and Donna Deal…Won a pair of AAU state championships…Went 8-1 with the RISE Baseball Club...Majoring in economics & business.

DEAL’S CAREER HIGHS IP, Starter 4.1 at Radford, 4/19/09 IP,Relief 4.1 vs. Gardner-Webb, 4/11/09 K 6 vs. Gardner-Webb, 4/11/09 BB 2 (2x), Last at Presbyterian, 3/14/09

Deal’s Career Stats Year ERA W-L G/GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO HR B/Avg WP HBP 2009 5.55 0-0 13/1 000024.1 23 16 15 10 22 1 .250 2 6 TOTAL 5.55 0-0 13/1 0 0 0 0 24.1 23 16 15 10 22 1 .250 2 6 Deal’s Career Big South Stats Year ERA W-L G/GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO HR B/Avg WP HBP 2009 3.46 0-0 5/1 000013.0 12 65490.250 1 2 TOTAL 3.46 0-0 5/1 0 0 0 0 13.0 12 6 5 4 9 0 .250 1 2 Saturday’s Starter Travis Smink Redshirt Junior  Left-Handed Pitcher  6-2  200  L/L Dalmatia, Pa.  Line Mountain (4/7); struck out six while allowing only a walk…Made his first appearance in over a year by striking out the SMINK’S CAREER STARTS lone batter he faced in game four at Auburn (3/9). 2009 Summer: Included on Baseball America’s College IP H R ER BB SO DEC 35 Summer League Top Prospects List for the Valley 2/20 #1 UNC 4.1 66534L League...Led the Luray Wranglers to a sweep of 3/6 Rider 6.0 71113 - Has moved back to the weekend rotation after Covington to win the 2008 Jim Lineweaver Cup, given 3/14 Presbyterian 7.0 42048W dominant spring and summer campaigns last year... to the Valley League Champions...Went 6-1 on the sea- 3/20 UNCA 9.0 71115W Included on the 2009 NCBWA Stopper of the Year son for the Wranglers with a 1.88 ERA, striking out 49 3/27 CSU 7.1 11 5505 - Award Watch List. batters while walking only 10...Allowed opponents to 4/3 Liberty 5.2 95535W 2009: Leads VMI in ERA (3.00), wins (5) and opponents hit only .247 in 62.1 innings...In eight innings in the batting average (.268)...Moved into the top 10 in school opening game of the Lineweaver Cup, allowed only two 4/10 GWU 7.0 61105W history in wins with a victory against Liberty (3/3)...Has hits, picked off three runners and struck out 11 hitters 4/17 Radford 6.0 93245 - made 11 appearances, including eight starts this sea- in combining for a series-opening shutout....Helped son... Earned his first win by working 3.2 innings in Luray to a 37-15 record, leading the Wranglers to the 2008 relief, allowing only one hit while striking out six, in an fourth spot on www.PGCrosschecker.com’s Summer IP H R ER BB SO DEC 11-inning win over Old Dominion (2/24)...Took a no 16 list of the top teams across the country. 4/27 #15 Coastal 2.2 76400L decision while allowing only one run in six innings on 5/11 UMES 4.2 96423 - Friday against Rider (3/6)...Worked 1.2 perfect innings 2007: Saw action in only two contests before undergo- in relief at Norfolk State (3/11), striking out ing surgery...Took the loss at Florida after allowing six 2007 two...Struck out a career-best eight in VMI’s conference hits in 2.2 innings (2/11)...Suffered season-ending injury IP H R ER BB SO DEC opener, allowing only two unearned runs on four hits in at Virginia (2/27),facing three batters in his second seven innings at Presbyterian (3/14)...Hurled the second start of the year...Took a medical redshirt year. 2/11 Florida 2.2 74313L complete game of his career, allowing one run against 2/27 Virginia 0.1 12210 - UNC Asheville (3/20)...In that start, scattered seven hits 2006: Became only the second Louisville Slugger and struck out five...Improved to 4-0 in five conference Freshman All-American in VMI history, joining fellow 2006 starts this season by allowing just one run through Herndon, Pa. native Kelly Sweppenhiser ‘06...Tied then- IP H R ER BB SO DEC seven innings against Gardner-Webb (4/10). school record for wins by going 7-4 while also picking 3/4 Albany 6.0 51125W up two saves...Second on the team with 73.2 innings, 3/11 Hartford 4.2 11 6623 - 2008: Had a strong season as a redshirt sophomore... ten starts, two saves and 4.40 ERA...Threw his first 3/19 CSU 4.2 54411 - Was 7-for-7 in save opportunities, notching 11 strike- career complete game against Coastal Carolina (5/8) in 4/7 High Point 5.0 95510L outs and one walk in 12 innings in save a 2-0 loss to fellow freshman Bobby Gagg...Struck out a 4/14 Radford 6.0 42023W situations…Overall, went 2-1 with seven saves and a season-high six batters in a 10-1 victory over 4/22 Birm-Sou. 7.0 41136W 3.48 ERA…Led the team with 19 appearances, includ- Birmingham-Southern (4/22), the program’s only win 4/28 UNCA 3.0 75511L ing two starts…In conference play, went 2-1 with four over the Panthers...Named to the College Baseball saves in nine appearances, posting a 2.67 ERA and 17 Foundation’s National Honor Roll after he picked up 5/8 Coastal 9.0 42164L K's in 27 innings, with opponents hitting .224 against two saves and a win by closing out all three games 5/13 NCA&T 7.0 93224 - him…Earned a three-inning save, shutting out against Lafayette (2/25-26), retiring 17 of the 19 bat- 5/19 Winthrop 4.2 55550L Charleston Southern (5/17) on two hits while striking ters he faced...Earned a win in his first collegiate ball. out three…Picked up a win by working the final two appearance, allowing only one baserunner in 2.2 innings innings in game one of a doubleheader against #15 at Auburn (Feb. 4)...Won his first career start, allowing Personal: Son of Jodi and James Smink...Played for the Line Coastal Carolina (4/27), allowing only two hits…Threw one run in 6.0 innings against Albany (3/4). Mountain American Legion team...Majoring in psychology. a season-long 7.1 innings in relief in VMI's 16-inning win Summer: Made eight starts for the Front Royal against Liberty (4/19), allowing one run on five hits, Cardinals of the Valley League, going 1-3... Struck out 33 SMINK’S CAREER HIGHS striking out five…Earned saves in back-to-back nights batters in 40 innings, as opponents hit .277 against him. IP, Starter 9.0 (2x), Last vs. UNCA, 3/20/09 against JMU (4/15) and Norfolk State (4/16), working IP,Relief 7.1 at Liberty, 4/19/08 perfect ninth innings in each while striking out High School: Three-year letterwinner as a pitcher at K 8 at Presbyterian, 3/14/09 five…Picked up his third Big South save by working two Line Mountain, the same high school as former Keydet BB 6 vs. Coastal Carolina, 5/8/06 innings while allowing one run on three hits at UNCA standout Kelly Sweppenhiser...Three-time TVL All- (4/12)…Earned his first win of the season by no-hitting Star...As a senior, posted an ERA of 0.79 and 102 strike- Radford for the final six innings of a 3-2, 16-inning win outs in 71 innings...Also lettered two years in basket- Smink’s Career Stats Year ERA W-L G/GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO HR B/Avg WP HBP 2006 4.40 7-4 21/10 100273.2 79 41 36 32 38 6 .293 5 9 2007 15.00 0-1 2/2 00003.0865232.471 1 0 2008 3.48 2-1 19/2 000744.0 42 21 17 10 36 3 .250 2 2 2009 3.00 5-2 12/8 100063.0 64 28 21 21 54 4 .268 5 3 TOTAL 3.87 14-8 54/22 2 0 0 9 183.2 193 96 79 65 131 15 .278 13 14 Smink’s Career Big South Stats Year ERA W-L G/GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO HR B/Avg WP HBP 2006 5.05 2-4 10/7 100041.0 40 26 23 20 15 4 .272 2 8 2008 2.67 2-1 9/1 000427.0 22 10 8 6 17 2 .224 1 1 2009 3.00 4-0 6/6 100042.0 46 17 14 12 33 3 .286 4 1 TOTAL 3.68 8-5 25/14 2 0 0 4 110.0 108 53 45 38 65 9 .266 7 10 Sunday’s Starter Chris Henderson Senior  Right-Handed Pitcher  6-0  175  R/R Fredericksburg, Va.  Colonial Forge start at Auburn (3/9), allowing four runs, two earned while striking out six...Threw his third career complete HENDERSON’S CAREER STARTS game against CCSU (3/2), allowing one earned run and 2009 striking out eight while not walking a batter...Allowed IP H R ER BB SO DEC 7 three hits and no runs in 3.2 innings, striking out seven in 2/21 #1 UNC 6.1 73222L season debut against Lafayette (2/23). 2/28 YSU 5.1 63327 - Three-year starter that will be expected to anchor the weekend rotation...Currently VMI’s career leader 2007: Moved into the weekend rotation after consecu- 3/7 Rider 3.1 10 8414L in fewest walks per nine innings while ranking in the tive mid-week wins over Old Dominion (3/21),VCU 3/14 Presbyterian 5.1 78416 - top five in career wins and opponents batting aver- (3/27) and #3 Virginia (4/3)...Hurled 8.1 innings of one- 3/21 UNCA 9.0 52106W age. run ball against Old Dominion...Defeated VCU just a 3/29 CSU-1 7.0 55223W 2009: Has started each weekend of the season for week later by surrendering only two runs in 5.2 innings 4/4 Liberty 5.0 10 7623L VMI...Entered the week leading the Big South in innings while setting a career-high with seven strikeouts... 4/11 GWU-1 4.2 76534L pitched... Named Big South Pitcher of the Week (3/23) Followed that up with a 7.2-inning outing against #3 4/18 Radford 9.1 74316L after hurling the fourth complete game of his Virginia, allowing only two runs while again striking out career...Allowed five hits and no walks in nine innings seven as the team defeated its highest-ranked opponent 2008 against UNC Asheville (3/21), earning the win in a 13-2 in program history...Tied for the second-most wins on IP H R ER BB SO DEC contest...Struck out seven while taking a no decision the team...Surrendered only one hit against Coppin State against Youngstown State (2/28), when he allowed three (4/14) in five innings...Set a new career-best by pitching all 3/2 CCSU 9.0 92108W runs in 5.1 innings...Kept VMI in the game on opening nine innings against UNC Asheville (4/29), clinching a 3/9 Auburn 5.0 64236L weekend against #1 North Carolina, allowing three runs, series win with a 5-3 win by scattering seven singles and 3/16 Marshall 4.2 10 4402L two earned, in 6.1 innings...Struck out six in 5.1 innings allowing only two earned runs....Claimed the series- 3/22 High Point 7.0 500110W against Presbyterian (3/15), allowing eight runs, four clinching win in game three over Radford (5/13), working 3/30 Winthrop 8.0 542011L earned, on seven hits...Allowed just five hits in seven into the eighth inning, allowing four runs, three earned to 4/6 Radford 6.1 84416W innings, surrendering five runs total, but only two earned, win his sixth decision of the season...Began season in the 4/12 UNCA 7.0 53213W in an 11-5 win over Charleston Southern (3/29)...Took bullpen, enjoying his best outing at Florida (2/11), allowing 4/18 Liberty 3.1 54413L the loss against Liberty (4/4), allowing seven runs, six no runs and one hit in 3.1 innings, striking out five. earned, on 10 hits in five innings...Threw a personal best 2007 9.1 innings in a loss to Radford (4/18), striking out six 2006: Began the year as a weekend starter before suffer- IP H R ER BB SO DEC while surrendering four runs, three earned...Picked up his ing a shoulder injury that sidelined him for six 16th career win by no-hitting Norfolk State (4/21) for 3.1 weeks...Came back as a member of the bullpen, where he 2/23 Niagara 2.0 42132L innings, notching five strikeouts. excelled...Appeared in 12 games, making five starts...In his 3/6 Norfolk St. 3.1 72211 - first career start, held Auburn scoreless for four innings 3/21 ODU 8.1 51103W 2008: Enjoyed a fine junior season, going 5-4 with a team- (2/5), allowing only four hits while striking out 3/27 VCU 5.2 62227W best 3.16 ERA...Led the Big South with only seven walks three...Keydets went 4-1 in his five starts. 4/3 Virginia 7.2 72207W issued...In conference play, was 3-2 with a 3.41 ERA, strik- 4/7 High Point 6.0 33322 - ing out 33 while walking only four...Missed the final six High School: Two-year letterwinner as a pitcher at 4/14 Coppin St. 5.0 10007W weeks of the season after an injury on April 18, when he Colonial Forge...Named first team all-district and second 4/22 Coastal 5.0 44424L started on Friday night against Liberty...Defeated UNCA team all-area...Helped Colonial Forge to a regional cham- 4/29 UNCA 9.0 73214W (4/12) by throwing seven innings, scattering five hits while pionship as a junior. allowing three runs, two earned...Picked up the win 5/9 Virginia Tech 3.1 73304L against Radford (4/6), starting game two of the series and Personal: Son of Colleen Tolson and David Henderson... 5/13 Radford 7.0 94324W allowing four runs on eight hits...Struck out a career-best Played for the Mid-Maryland Red Sox and American 5/20 Liberty 3.1 85500 - 11 batters without issuing a walk in a loss against Legion Post 290...Won an AAU National Championship in Winthrop (3/30), allowing four runs, only two 1999, also a member of the 2001 All-National team and 2006 earned...Named Big South Conference Pitcher of the Best In Virginia 2004...Psychology major. IP H R ER BB SO DEC Week after striking out a then-career-best ten while 2/5 Auburn 4.0 40013 - throwing seven innings of VMI's first shutout of the sea- HENDERSON’S CAREER HIGHS 2/12 Mercer 4.0 42111 - son, a 3-0 win over High Point (3/22)...Made two relief IP, Starter 9.1 at Radford, 4/18/09 2/19 Coppin St. 1.2 25331 - appearances before moving to the weekend rotation...In IP,Relief 4.2 at Auburn, 3/14/07 2/26 Lafayette 2.1 21102 - his first three appearances of the season, struck out 15 K 11 vs.Winthrop, 3/30/08 4/24 Birm.-Sou. 3.2 56321L batters without issuing a walk...Pitched five innings in his BB 3 (4x), Last vs. GWU, 4/11/09 Henderson’s Career Stats Year ERA W-L G/GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO HR B/Avg WP HBP 2006 4.76 2-1 12/5 000028.1 31 22 15 9 18 6 .274 8 0 2007 3.70 6-3 20/12 210082.2 85 39 34 16 61 5 .268 1 4 2008 3.16 5-4 12/8 101057.0 59 26 20 7 57 6 .267 2 6 2009 4.48 3-5 13/9 100064.1 68 48 32 14 57 5 .269 1 10 TOTAL 3.91 16-13 57/34 4 1 1 0 232.1 243 135 101 46 193 22 .269 12 20 Henderson’s Career Big South Stats Year ERA W-L G/GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO HR B/Avg WP HBP 2006 7.27 0-1 4/1 00008.212117343.333 3 0 2007 5.62 2-1 7/5 100032.0 35 22 20 7 15 3 .287 0 1 2008 3.41 3-2 5/5 001031.2 28 15 12 4 33 4 .235 0 1 2009 4.69 2-3 6/6 100040.1 41 32 21 9 28 3 .263 0 9 TOTAL 4.79 7-7 22/17 2 0 1 0 112.2 116 80 60 23 80 13 .268 3 11 VMI Bullpen Notes

# 29 Tim Brust, R-Fr. (Charlottesville, Va./Albemarle) 0-0, 19.80 ERA, 5.0 IP, 4 K, 1 BB LHP - Has made six relief appearances this season - Worked two innings in relief at Virginia Tech, allowing four runs, but only one earned - Pitched a shutout inning of relief in game three at #1 North Carolina, striking out one - Did not see game action in 2008 and took a redshirt year - Last summer, played for the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks of the Rockingham County Baseball League, helping the team to a league-best 20-2 mark - Led the league with seven wins, a 0.96 ERA and a .174 opponent batting average...Went 7-1 in nine appearances, striking out 49 batters in 47 innings - Went 13-4 in his high school career at Albemarle; Went 7-2 with a 1.90 ERA as a senior, striking out 56 while walking only three batters in 53 innings

# 32 Andrew Deal, Fr. (Chester, Va./L.C. Bird) 0-0, 5.55 ERA, 24.1 IP, 22 K, 10 BB RHP - Has made 12 relief outings and one start this season, with opponents hitting only .250 against the right-hander - Matched his career-long in his first collegiate start, allowing just one earned run in 4.1 innings at Radford (4/19) - Worked a career-long 4.1 innings in relief against Gardner-Webb (4/11), allowing just two runs while striking out a career-best six - Worked a perfect 1.2 innings in relief against Liberty (4/4), striking out two - Struck out five in 3.1 innings of scoreless relief against Richmond (3/24); Surrendered just two hits and one walk - Three-year letterwinner as a pitcher at L.C. Bird - Earned a complete game win over top-ranked Cosby in the District Tournament as a senior, striking out nine while allowing only four hits in a 4-3 win - As a junior, went 4-1 with a 2.09 ERA

# 25 Michael Devine, Fr. (Cheswick, Pa./Springdale) 0-4, 8.71 ERA, 31.0 IP, 30 K, 13 BB 1B/RHP - Has made four starts and nine relief appearances this season - Struck out five in 1.2 innings, taking the loss while allowing four unearned runs in the 10th inning at Old Dominion (4/21) - Struck out five in four innings, taking the loss while allowing four runs in a start against Longwood (4/15) - Allowed just an unearned run in 2.2 innings against Gardner-Webb (4/11) - In an emergency relief appearance at Charleston Southern (3/29), struck out four in 2.1 innings, allowing two runs - Struck out five in five innings in his first collegiate start, allowing two runs to Old Dominion (2/24) - First Team All-State at shortstop and four times was named All-Section - As a pitcher, holds high school records for wins, strikeouts and ERA as a pitcher and home runs and RBI as a hitter

# 14 Matt Edwards, R-Jr. (Midlothian, Va./Midlothian) 2-3, 3 SV, 7.01 ERA, 34.2 IP, 25 K, 11 BB RHP - Leads VMI with 16 relief appearances and three saves this season, also recording two wins - In his first career start on the mound, worked five innings, allowing just one run on one hit, striking out five at Old Dominion (4/21), taking a no decision - Picked up a save by working the final 3.1 innings against Liberty (4/3), allowing one run on six hits - Blew a save but earned a win against Presbyterian (3/15); allowed two runs on four hits in two innings - Earned his first win of the season by working four shutout innings, allowing only one hit while striking out five, against Rider (3/6) - Allowed only one run in four innings in game three at #1 North Carolina (2/22) - Made 15 relief appearances last season, posting an impressive 1.64 ERA while allowing only two extra-base hits while facing 94 batters - Earned his first collegiate win against Norfolk State (3/19), entering the sixth inning with the go-ahead run at third base and working 1.1 scoreless innings - Last summer, competed for the Petersburg Generals of the Coastal Plain League, going 2-2 in 15 appearances with 27 K and 3 BB in 39 IP - Underwent Tommy John surgery in the fall of 2006 after suffering an elbow injury over the summer of 2006 while pitching for American Legion Post 186 - Made three relief appearances as a freshman in 2006

# 12 Lefty Flora, So. (Roanoke, Va./Northside) 0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.2 IP, 1 K LHP - Made his first appearance of the season at JMU (4/15), closing out the game with a scoreless 0.2 innings - Made two starts and appeared in seven games as a freshman - Pitched four innings in relief in game three at Auburn (3/8), striking out five while scattering five hits, allowing two runs - Allowed one run on one hit in 1.1 innings against Charleston Southern (5/19), his first Big South Conference appearance - Went 9-1 as a senior, leading Northside to the Virginia AA State Semifinals for the second-straight season and a Blue Ridge District Regular Season title - As a senior, had a 1.16 ERA with 96 K and 24 BB in 72.2 IP, throwing 9 CG; In his career was 29-6 with 297 strikeouts in 228 innings and an ERA of 1.71 - Two-time First-Team All-District and All-Region selection that also earned Honorable Mention All-State honors

# 9 Adam Kruithof, So. (Charlottesville, Va./Western Albemarle) 0-3, 7.06 ERA, 21.2 IP, 12 K, 12 BB RHP - Has made 10 relief appearances and four starts this season - Allowed just one run in 4.1 innings versus Liberty (4/5) in his third start of the season, taking a no decision - In his first start of the season, did not allow a hit through 5.2 innings, leaving with a 1-0 deficit in an eventual 2-1 VMI loss in 10 innings to Richmond (3/24) - Surrendered two runs in two innings while striking out two at Virginia Tech (3/18) - Worked 2.1 innings, allowing two runs on six hits, against #18 Virginia (3/11) in his hometown of Charlottesville - Earned his first career win by working four innings while allowing two runs on seven hits against Norfolk State (4/16) in 2008 - Struck out a career-best seven while not issuing a walk in a start against Coppin State (4/23) last season - Earned Player of the Year honors in the Jefferson District after being named to the All-District First Team as both a pitcher and an outfielder as a senior - Named Central Virginia Player of the Year as a senior and First Team All-Region as a pitcher in addition to Second Team All-Region in the outfield

# 20 Adam Lopez, Fr. (Fredericksburg, Va./Stafford) 1-0, 7.77 ERA, 22.0 IP, 26 K, 11 BB RHP - Has made 10 relief outings and two starts as a freshman - In his second career start, allowed just two runs on five hits through 5.1 innings against Norfolk State, taking a no decision VMI Bullpen Notes

- Impressed in his first collegiate start, allowing two hits and no walks in four innings, striking out seven at Norfolk State (3/10) - Pitched two shutout innings, striking out three while not allowing a hit, against William & Mary (3/4) - Tabbed Honorable Mention All-Metro by the Washington Post last season, while also earning First Team All-District and Second Team All-Region accolades - Went 1-0 with a no-hitter as a junior while hitting .310 with seven home runs and 22 RBI as a corner infielder

# 27 Josh McPherson, Jr. (Yorktown, Va./Tabb) 0-0, 10.54 ERA, 13.2 IP, 9 K, 10 BB RHP - Has made 14 relief appearances this season - Threw a perfect inning in relief against Gardner-Webb (4/10) in a 21-3 win - Worked 1.1 scoreless innings in game three at Charleston Southern (3/29), striking out one while allowing one hit - Hurled a perfect inning at #18 Virginia (3/11) - Allowed only one hit while striking out three in two innings against Old Dominion (2/24) - Pitched a scoreless inning in game one at #1 North Carolina (2/20), striking out one - Made seven relief appearances as a sophomore, striking out six while walking only one of the 33 batters he faced - Allowed only one hit and no runs over a stretch of four consecutive appearances - Named All-State Honorable Mention as a junior, while also being twice named First-Team All-Region and First-Team All-District

# 12 Karter Rivera, Fr. (Norfolk, Va./Maury) 0-0, 9.00 ERA, 5.0 IP, 4 K LHP - Has made four relief appearances and one start this season - In his first career start, allowed three runs on four hits in one inning against VCU (4/8) - Worked a career-long 2.1 innings in relief at VCU (3/31), striking out a career-best three while scattering two hits and not allowing a run - Allowed one run in one inning of work at Virginia Tech (3/17), notching a strikeout - In his collegiate debut, induced an inning-ending double play against the only batter he faced vs. Rider (3/7) - Named Second Team All-District and earned the Tonstall Award by going 9-2 with a 1.59 ERA as a senior - As a junior, went 7-2 while leading South Hampton Roads with a 0.71 ERA; In his career, went 21-5 - Also a standout swimmer at Maury

# 4 Sam Roberts, So. (Prince George, Va./Prince George) 1-3, 1 SV, 6.75 ERA, 20.0 IP, 20 K, 6 BB LHP - Has made 13 relief appearances, coming in from right field in each case, and one start on the mound - In his first collegiate start, worked two innings, allowing eight runs, five earned, on six hits, including four home runs, at JMU (4/14) - Retired the final six batters he faced after a leadoff single in the eighth against Gardner-Webb (4/11), striking out three - Struck out each of the three batters he faced in closing out the ninth inning with the bases loaded in an 11-5 VMI win at Charleston Southern (3/29) - Took the loss while allowing one run in two innings against Richmond (3/24) - Earned his first save of the season, striking out two of the three batters he faced against Presbyterian (3/15) - Allowed a run to fall behind in the eighth inning against Rider (3/8), then hit a two-run home run to give himself the win, working the final two innings - Brother of former VMI catcher and 2008 Milwaukee Brewers draftee Mike Roberts - Earned First Team All-Central District honors at SS & UTIL as a high school senior; Also a Two-time First-Team All-Metro, All-Region and All-Tri Cities selection - Had a career 23-5 record on the mound while also hitting above .400 each season at Prince George, where he played for his father, Mickey Roberts

# 36 Alan Watts, Fr. (Buena Vista, Va./Lord Botetourt) 0-0, 15.26 ERA, 7.2 IP, 1 K, 6 BB RHP - Has made nine appearances as a freshman - Worked a shutout inning at Virginia Tech (3/17), allowing only a hit - Earned Second Team All-Region and First Team All-District honors as a utility player senior year, hitting .327 with 3 HR, 5 2B, 25 RBI and .514 OBP - Had three wins and a save on the mound, allowing opponents only a .205 batting average in 48.1 innings - Named Second Team All-District catcher as a junior - Earned Cavalier Award after hitting .326 with a .417 on-base percentage, while also going 3-2 on the mound with 33 strikeouts in 32 innings as a junior Relief Effectiveness

-----Last Relief Appearance----- First Batter Saves Inherit. Run. Pitcher Date Opp. (Result) IP H R/ER BB SO HR DEC Faced Retired SV Opp. IR Scored Brown 3/7 vs. Rider-1 (W) 3.2 7 6/4 0 1 0 W 3 2 0 0 1 1 Brust 4/14 at JMU (L) 0.2 2 3/3 0 1 0 - 6 4 0 0 6 4 Deal 4/15 vs. Longwood (L) 0.0 1 3/3 1 0 0 - 12 9 0 0 6 1 Devine 4/21 at ODU (L) 1.2 2 4/0 2 5 1 L 9 7 0 0 7 5 Edwards 4/19 at Radford (L) 0.1 3 3/3 1 0 0 BSV 16 12 3 5 13 7 Flora 4/14 at JMU (L) 0.2 0 0/0 0 1 0 - 1 1 0 0 1 0 Henderson 4/22 vs. Norfolk St. (W)3.1 0 0/0 0 5 0 W 4 3 0 0 4 2 Kruithof 4/19 at Radford (L) 0.0 1 0/0 0 0 0 - 10 3 0 0 10 5 Lopez 4/14 at JMU (L) 2.0 4 2/2 2 2 0 - 10 6 0 0 7 3 McPherson 4/22 vs. Norfolk St. (W)0.1 2 3/3 0 0 1 - 14 7 0 0 13 5 Rivera 3/31 at VCU (L) 2.1 2 0/0 0 3 0 - 4 2 0 0 7 3 Roberts 4/18 at Radford (L) 0.0 1 0/0 0 0 0 - 13 5 1 3 12 7 Smink 4/21 at ODU (L) 3.0 1 1/0 3 1 0 - 4 3 0 1 6 2 Watts 4/19 at Radford (L) 0.2 1 0/0 1 0 0 - 9 6 0 0 9 7 TEAM 4/22 vs. Norfolk St. (W)3.2 2 3/3 0 5 1 W 115 70 4 9 102 52 2009 VMI Baseball Roster Alphabetical Roster No. Name Pos. B/T HT WT CL Hometown/Previous School 26 Jordan Ballard ...... IF 2 George Piccirilli C R/R 5-10 185 Fr. Manassas,Va./Osbourne Park Ryan Barefoot ...... RHP 3 Jeremy Brown RHP R/R 5-11 160 Fr. Rixeyville,Va./Culpeper 4 Sam Roberts IF/OF/P L/R 6-2 185 So. Prince George,Va./Prince George 24 Tanner Biagini ...... IF 5 Justin Topping OF/C R/R 5-11 190 So. Suffolk,Va./Nansemond River 3 Jeremy Brown ...... RHP 6 Steele Myers MIF R/R 5-10 185 Fr. Chapel Hill, N.C./Jordan 39 Tyler Brown ...... OF 7 Chris Henderson RHP R/R 6-0 175 Sr. Fredericksburg,Va./Colonial Forge 29 Tim Brust ...... LHP 8 Jacob Morley OF R/R 6-1 175 Fr. Annandale,Va./W.T.Woodson 32 Andrew Deal ...... RHP 9 Adam Kruithof RHP R/R 5-11 190 So. Charlottesville,Va./Western Albemarle 25 Michael Devine ...... 1B/RHP 10 A.J.Yoder MIF L/R 5-11 190 Sr. Belleville, Pa./Indian Valley 22 Chris Duty ...... RHP 11 John Phelps LHP L/L 5-11 215 R-Jr. Chesapeake,Va./Deep Creek 14 Matt Edwards ...... RHP 12 Karter Rivera LHP L/L 6-2 170 Fr. Norfolk,Va./Maury 13 Lefty Flora LHP L/L 5-9 175 So. Roanoke,Va./Northside Jason Farley ...... LHP 14 Matt Edwards RHP R/R 5-11 195 R-Jr. Midlothian,Va./Midlothian 18 Collin Flaherty ...... C/OF 16 Brooks Martin OF R/R 6-1 195 Fr. Richmond,Va./Deep Run 13 Lefty Flora ...... LHP 17 Jeremy Peed OF R/R 6-4 200 Fr. Roxboro, N.C./Person County 33 Kyle Goodale ...... C 18 Collin Flaherty C/OF R/R 6-3 205 Fr. Vienna,Va./James Madison 28 Alex Haitsuka ...... C 20 Adam Lopez RHP R/R 6-5 215 Fr. Fredericksburg,Va./Stafford 7 Chris Henderson ...... RHP 22 Chris Duty RHP R/R 6-3 205 Jr. Richmond,Va./Monacan 9 Adam Kruithof ...... RHP 23 Graham Sullivan IF R/R 6-3 200 So. Manassas,Va./C.D. Hylton 24 Tanner Biagini IF R/R 6-3 220 Jr. Greenville, N.C./D.H. Conley 20 Adam Lopez ...... RHP 25 Michael Devine 1B/RHP R/R 6-1 190 Fr. Cheswick, Pa./Springdale 16 Brooks Martin ...... OF 26 Jordan Ballard IF R/R 6-3 210 Jr. Troy,Va./Monticello 27 Josh McPherson ...... RHP 27 Josh McPherson RHP R/R 6-4 200 Jr. Yorktown,Va./Tabb 30 Colin Miller ...... OF 28 Alex Haitsuka C R/R 6-3 190 So. Alexandria,Va./T.C.Williams 8 Jacob Morley ...... OF 29 Tim Brust LHP L/L 6-4 215 R-Fr. Charlottesville,Va./Albemarle 6 Steele Myers ...... MIF 30 Colin Miller OF R/R 5-11 175 So. Delaplane,Va./Fauquier 17 Jeremy Peed ...... OF 31 Brian Sandridge OF R/R 6-0 195 R-Jr. Brownsburg,Va./Rockbridge County 32 Andrew Deal RHP R/R 6-2 190 Fr. Chester,Va./L.C. Bird 11 John Phelps ...... LHP 33 Kyle Goodale C R/R 6-5 200 R-Fr. Philadelphia, Pa./Penncrest 2 George Piccirilli ...... C 34 Chase Worthington IF R/R 5-11 180 Fr. Mechanicsville,Va./Atlee 12 Karter Rivera ...... LHP 35 Travis Smink LHP L/L 6-2 200 R-Jr. Dalmatia, Pa./Line Mountain 4 Sam Roberts ...... IF/OF/P 36 Alan Watts RHP R/R 6-0 180 Fr. Buena Vista,Va./Lord Botetourt 31 Brian Sandridge ...... OF 39 Tyler Brown OF R/R 5-10 162 Fr. Lynchburg,Va./Jefferson Forest 35 Travis Smink ...... LHP Ryan Barefoot* RHP R/R 6-4 195 So. Centreville,Va./Centreville 23 Graham Sullivan ...... IF Jason Farley* LHP L/L 6-3 200 So. Vienna,Va./James Madison *- Will redshirt the 2009 season 5 Justin Topping ...... OF/C 36 Alan Watts ...... RHP Head Coach: #19 Marlin Ikenberry (VMI ‘95), Sixth season 34 Chase Worthington ...... IF Assistant Coaches: 10 A.J.Yoder ...... MIF #37 Ryan Mau (College of Charleston ‘00), Fourth season #38 Barry Shelton (West Virginia State,‘97),Third season Squad Analysis #21 James Conrad (Lafayette ‘07), First Season 2008 Letterwinners Mangers: Austin Benda Returning ...... 13 Lost ...... 8 Pennsylvania- 4 Keydets By State/Region 2008 Position Starters Virginia- 28 Michael Devine Cheswick Kyle Goodale Media Returning ...... 7 Southeastern (4) Western (3) Travis Smink Herndon Lost ...... 4 Josh McPherson Yorktown Lefty Flora Roanoke A.J. Yoder Belleville 2008 Pitchers John Phelps Chesapeake Brian Sandridge Brownsburg Returning ...... 9 Karter Rivera Norfolk Alan Watts Buena Vista North Carolina- 3 Justin Topping Suffolk Lost ...... 4 Tanner Biagini Greenville Northern (11) Steele Myers Chapel Hill Newcomers ...... 14 Central (10) Ryan Barefoot Centreville Jeremy Peed Roxboro Jordan Ballard Troy Jeremy Brown Rixeyville How They Hit Tyler Brown Lynchburg Jason Farley Vienna Pronunciation Guide Right ...... 28 Tim Brust Charlottesville Collin Flaherty Vienna Tanner BIAGINI- be-ah-GEE-nee Andrew Deal Chester Alex Haitsuka Alexandria Left ...... 7 Chris Duty Richmond Chris Henderson Fredericksburg Alex HAITSUKA- hite-SOO-kah How They Throw Matt Edwards Midlothian Adam Lopez Fredericksburg Marlin IKENBERRY- EYE-ken-berry Right ...... 29 Adam Kruithof Charlottesville Colin Miller Delaplane Adam KRUITHOF- CREW-toff Left ...... 6 Brooks Martin Richmond Jacob Morley Annandale How They Pitch Ryan MAU- MAO (As in Maui) Sam Roberts Prince George George Piccirilli Manassas Right ...... 12 Chase Worthington Mechanicsville Graham Sullivan Manassas George PICCIRILLI- PICK-er-rill-ee Left ...... 6 2009 VMI Baseball Overall Statistics for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (All games Sorted by Batting avg)

Record: 14-26 Home: 10-11 Away: 4-15 Big South: 7-10

Player AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%

BALLARD, Jordan...... 360 38-38 150 29 54 13 0 8 36 91 .607 19 2 39 0 .436 1 1 2-4 353 25 3 .992 YODER, A.J...... 345 40-40 174 30 60 9 2 2 24 79 .454 12 5 26 0 .399 2 2 10-16 72 116 7 .964 BIAGINI, Tanner...... 328 40-40 177 38 58 12 0 7 29 91 .514 10 2 39 2 .370 0 1 2-3 25 76 12 .894 ROBERTS, Sam...... 318 40-40 148 40 47 5 0 4 21 64 .432 30 2 29 1 .434 2 3 7-9 82 13 5 .950 SANDRIDGE, Brian.... .301 38-37 143 23 43 9 0 5 23 67 .469 7 8 29 0 .365 1 4 3-4 44 1 3 .938 HAITSUKA, Alex...... 284 40-37 134 24 38 8 2 8 36 74 .552 12 13 45 1 .396 0 4 1-3 259 48 10 .968 SULLIVAN, Graham.... .265 38-27 102 14 27 8 0 4 15 47 .461 15 0 26 0 .359 0 1 4-4 43 57 11 .901 MORLEY, Jacob...... 259 38-36 135 21 35 4 1 1 17 44 .326 10 0 31 4 .308 1 8 12-13 67 1 2 .971 TOPPING, Justin...... 242 33-26 95 11 23 5 0 1 12 31 .326 10 2 20 2 .324 1 5 1-2 0 0 0 .000 ------MARTIN, Brooks...... 333 4-0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 0 0 1 0 .333 0 0 0-0 1 0 0 1.000 WORTHINGTON, Chase.. .286 7-0 7 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 .286 0 0 2 0 .286 0 0 0-0 1 3 1 .800 PICCIRILLI, George.. .268 16-12 41 7 11 0 0 0 7 11 .268 7 1 8 2 .380 1 0 1-1 9 0 0 1.000 GOODALE, Kyle...... 222 11-3 9 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 .222 2 0 3 0 .364 0 0 0-0 29 3 3 .914 MILLER, Colin...... 212 26-6 33 2 7 1 0 0 2 8 .242 2 0 8 0 .257 0 1 2-2 17 4 0 1.000 MYERS, Steele...... 161 20-15 56 2 9 1 1 0 4 12 .214 1 0 24 2 .167 3 0 0-0 26 51 5 .939 LOTTMAN, David...... 143 5-2 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 .143 1 0 5 0 .250 0 0 2-2 2 0 1 .667 DEVINE, Michael...... 071 11-1 14 2 1 0 0 1 2 4 .286 0 1 6 0 .133 0 1 0-0 9 9 1 .947 PEED, Jeremy...... 000 6-0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 2 0 .000 0 0 0-0 2 0 1 .667 EDWARDS, Matt...... 000 1-0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 .000 0 0 0-0 3 6 1 .900 FLAHERTY, Collin.... .000 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 .000 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 .000 BROWN, Tyler...... 000 5-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 .000

Totals...... 292 40-40 1435 250 419 75 6 41 230 629 .438 138 36 345 14 .366 12 31 47-63 1057 455 75 .953 Opponents...... 316 40-40 1424 316 450 102 14 34 280 682 .479 138 61 297 15 .394 24 35 50-71 1072 418 50 .968

LOB - Team (331), Opp (309). DPs turned - Team (27), Opp (26). CI - Team (1), GOODALE, K. 1, Opp (1). IBB - Team (6), YODER, A.J. 3, SULLIVAN, G. 1, TOPPING, J. 1, BIAGINI, T. 1, Opp (1). Picked off - MYERS, S. 1, HAITSUKA, A. 1, BIAGINI, T. 1, BALLARD, J. 1.

(All games Sorted by Earned run avg)

Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA

SMINK, Travis...... 3.00 5-2 12 8 1 0/0 0 63.0 64 28 21 21 54 8 2 4 239 .268 5 3 2 3 4 HENDERSON, Chris.... 4.48 3-5 13 9 1 0/0 0 64.1 68 48 32 14 57 18 2 5 253 .269 1 10 0 3 9 ------FLORA, Lefty...... 0.00 0-0 1 0 0 0/0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .000 1 0 0 0 0 PHELPS, John...... 4.60 1-0 4 4 0 0/0 0 15.2 15 9 8 9 9 3 0 1 56 .268 0 4 0 2 2 DEAL, Andrew...... 5.55 0-0 13 1 0 0/0 0 24.1 23 16 15 10 22 6 0 1 92 .250 2 6 0 1 1 BROWN, Jeremy...... 6.65 1-5 8 5 0 0/0 0 23.0 30 21 17 14 22 6 2 2 94 .319 5 3 0 1 1 ROBERTS, Sam...... 6.75 1-3 14 1 0 0/0 1 20.0 25 22 15 6 20 1 0 6 80 .313 3 3 0 2 3 EDWARDS, Matt...... 7.01 2-3 17 1 0 0/0 3 34.2 47 33 27 11 25 8 1 3 139 .338 1 4 0 4 6 KRUITHOF, Adam...... 7.06 0-3 14 4 0 0/0 0 21.2 29 20 17 12 12 7 1 3 87 .333 4 8 0 3 3 LOPEZ, Adam...... 7.77 1-0 12 2 0 0/0 0 22.0 33 24 19 11 26 7 3 3 92 .359 4 2 1 1 1 DEVINE, Michael..... 8.71 0-4 13 4 0 0/0 0 31.0 51 39 30 13 30 14 2 3 135 .378 4 8 0 1 3 McPHERSON, Josh..... 10.54 0-0 14 0 0 0/0 0 13.2 22 20 16 10 9 10 1 1 59 .373 1 3 1 1 1 RIVERA, Karter...... 12.00 0-1 5 1 0 0/0 0 6.0 14 8 8 0 5 2 0 0 30 .467 1 1 1 0 0 WATTS, Alan...... 15.26 0-0 9 0 0 0/0 0 7.2 17 14 13 6 1 7 0 0 37 .459 3 4 0 2 1 BRUST, Tim...... 19.80 0-0 6 0 0 0/0 0 5.0 12 14 11 1 4 5 0 2 29 .414 3 2 2 0 0

Totals...... 6.35 14-26 40 40 2 0/0 4 352.2 450 316 249 138 297 102 14 34 1424 .316 38 61 7 24 35 Opponents...... 5.42 26-14 40 40 1 1/1 9 357.1 419 250 215 138 345 75 6 41 1435 .292 34 36 3 12 31

PB - Team (19), HAITSUKA, A. 19, Opp (13). Pickoffs - Team (19), SMINK, T. 5, LOPEZ, A. 4, HAITSUKA, A. 4, DEVINE, M. 2, EDWARDS, M. 1, WATTS, A. 1, HENDERSON, C 1, BROWN, J. 1, Opp (4). SBA/ATT - HAITSUKA, A. (45-63), DEVINE, M. (10-14), DEAL, A. (8-11), SMINK, T. (4-7), KRUITHOF, A. (5-7), EDWARDS, M. (5-6), GOODALE, K. (5-6), HENDERSON, C (2-5), McPHERSON, J (4-5), PHELPS, J. (4-4), LOPEZ, A. (3-4), BROWN, J. (1-3), BRUST, T. (2-2), ROBERTS, S. (2-2), WATTS, A. (0-1). 2009 VMI Baseball Game Results for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (All games)

Game date Opposing team Score r h e/ r h e Inns Overall Big South Pitcher of record Attend Time ------/------Feb 20, 2009 at #1 North Carolina 3-13 L 3 13 1/13 16 0 9 0- 1- 0 0- 0- 0 SMINK, T. (L 0-1) 2831 3:27 Feb 21, 2009 at #1 North Carolina 0-6 L 0 4 2/ 6 10 0 9 0- 2- 0 0- 0- 0 HENDERSON, C (L 0-1) 2247 2:30 Feb 22, 2009 at #1 North Carolina 3-11 L 3 7 2/11 15 1 9 0- 3- 0 0- 0- 0 BROWN, J. (L 0-1) 1402 2:48 Feb 24, 2009 Old Dominion W 4-3 4 10 0/ 3 7 1 (11) 1- 3- 0 0- 0- 0 SMINK, T. (W 1-0) 109 3:28 Feb 25, 2009 at Richmond 4-10 L 4 10 6/10 14 0 9 1- 4- 0 0- 0- 0 KRUITHOF, A. (L 0-1) 221 2:55 Feb 27, 2009 Youngstown State 6-7 L 6 8 3/ 7 9 1 9 1- 5- 0 0- 0- 0 ROBERTS, S. (L 0-1) 103 2:48 Feb 28, 2009 Youngstown State 4-9 L 4 9 2/ 9 14 0 9 1- 6- 0 0- 0- 0 SMINK, T. (L 1-2) 113 3:26 Mar 04, 2009 William & Mary W 7-4 7 15 1/ 4 6 2 9 2- 6- 0 0- 0- 0 PHELPS, J. (W 1-0) 109 3:23 Mar 06, 2009 Rider W 7-4 7 10 2/ 4 10 4 (12) 3- 6- 0 0- 0- 0 EDWARDS, M. (W 1-0) 179 3:48 Mar 07, 2009 Rider W 17-11 17 16 2/11 14 3 9 4- 6- 0 0- 0- 0 BROWN, J. (W 1-0) 204 3:08 Mar 07, 2009 Rider 8-12 L 8 13 4/12 13 2 7 4- 7- 0 0- 0- 0 HENDERSON, C (L 0-2) 234 3:09 Mar 08, 2009 Rider W 12-11 12 13 2/11 16 3 9 5- 7- 0 0- 0- 0 ROBERTS, S. (W 1-1) 485 3:05 Mar 10, 2009 at Norfolk State W 4-3 4 7 0/ 3 6 3 9 6- 7- 0 0- 0- 0 LOPEZ, A. (W) 75 2:50 Mar 11, 2009 at #18 Virginia 3-10 L 3 6 0/10 12 1 9 6- 8- 0 0- 0- 0 BROWN, J. (L 1-2) 1223 2:52 *Mar 14, 2009 at Presbyterian W 14-4 14 21 1/ 4 6 1 9 7- 8- 0 1- 0- 0 SMINK, T. (W 2-2) 41 3:19 *Mar 15, 2009 at Presbyterian W 12-10 12 11 3/10 12 2 8 8- 8- 0 2- 0- 0 EDWARDS, M. (W 2-0) 42 2:06 Mar 17, 2009 at Virginia Tech 5-14 L 5 8 3/14 23 1 9 8- 9- 0 2- 0- 0 DEVINE, M. (L 0-1) 348 3:16 Mar 18, 2009 at Virginia Tech 3-7 L 3 11 0/ 7 9 2 9 8-10- 0 2- 0- 0 BROWN, J. (L 1-3) 238 2:46 *Mar 20, 2009 UNC Asheville W 6-1 6 11 0/ 1 7 0 9 9-10- 0 3- 0- 0 SMINK, T. (W 3-2) 287 2:21 *Mar 21, 2009 UNC Asheville W 13-2 13 15 3/ 2 5 0 9 10-10- 0 4- 0- 0 HENDERSON, C (W 1-2) 305 2:35 *Mar 22, 2009 UNC Asheville 4-9 L 4 10 6/ 9 11 2 9 10-11- 0 4- 1- 0 BROWN, J. (L 1-4) 289 2:40 Mar 24, 2009 Richmond 1-2 L 1 5 2/ 2 4 1 (11) 10-12- 0 4- 1- 0 ROBERTS, S. (L 1-2) 201 2:57 *Mar 27, 2009 at Charleston Southern 5-9 L 5 9 2/ 9 14 0 (10) 10-13- 0 4- 2- 0 EDWARDS, M. (L 2-1) 132 3:03 *Mar 29, 2009 at Charleston Southern W 11-5 11 18 3/ 5 6 2 9 11-13- 0 5- 2- 0 HENDERSON, C (W 2-2) 158 2:55 *Mar 29, 2009 at Charleston Southern 2-7 L 2 8 1/ 7 11 0 9 11-14- 0 5- 3- 0 BROWN, J. (L 1-5) 156 2:30 Mar 31, 2009 at VCU 8-17 L 8 12 5/17 14 3 9 11-15- 0 5- 3- 0 KRUITHOF, A. (L 0-2) 976 3:07 *Apr 03, 2009 Liberty W 13-6 13 16 0/ 6 15 2 9 12-15- 0 6- 3- 0 SMINK, T. (W 4-2) 202 3:19 *Apr 04, 2009 Liberty 7-9 L 7 9 0/ 9 14 2 9 12-16- 0 6- 4- 0 HENDERSON, C (L 2-3) 287 2:49 *Apr 05, 2009 Liberty 3-4 L 3 6 1/ 4 11 1 9 12-17- 0 6- 5- 0 EDWARDS, M. (L 2-2) 262 2:30 Apr 08, 2009 VCU 3-9 L 3 9 1/ 9 13 0 9 12-18- 0 6- 5- 0 RIVERA, K. (L 0-1) 193 2:50 *Apr 10, 2009 Gardner-Webb W 21-3 21 25 1/ 3 8 0 9 13-18- 0 7- 5- 0 SMINK, T. (W 5-2) 207 2:28 *Apr 11, 2009 Gardner-Webb 5-8 L 5 8 2/ 8 12 1 9 13-19- 0 7- 6- 0 HENDERSON, C (L 2-4) 429 2:44 *Apr 11, 2009 Gardner-Webb 4-15 L 4 9 1/15 14 0 9 13-20- 0 7- 7- 0 KRUITHOF, A. (L 0-3) 429 3:01 Apr 14, 2009 at James Madison 2-20 L 2 5 3/20 21 0 8 13-21- 0 7- 7- 0 ROBERTS, S. (L 1-3) 206 2:48 Apr 15, 2009 Longwood 8-11 L 8 15 0/11 11 2 9 13-22- 0 7- 7- 0 DEVINE, M. (L 0-2) 103 2:45 *Apr 17, 2009 at Radford 3-5 L 3 7 4/ 5 14 0 9 13-23- 0 7- 8- 0 EDWARDS, M. (L 2-3) 350 2:50 *Apr 18, 2009 at Radford 3-4 L 3 4 2/ 4 8 3 (10) 13-24- 0 7- 9- 0 HENDERSON, C (L 2-5) 400 2:39 *Apr 19, 2009 at Radford 4-10 L 4 10 3/10 14 2 9 13-25- 0 7-10- 0 DEVINE, M. (L 0-3) 200 3:05 Apr 21, 2009 at Old Dominion 2-6 L 2 7 1/ 6 4 2 (10) 13-26- 0 7-10- 0 DEVINE, M. (L 0-4) 255 2:52 Apr 22, 2009 Norfolk State W 6-5 6 9 0/ 5 7 0 9 14-26- 0 7-10- 0 HENDERSON, C (W 3-5) 109 2:42

() extra inning game 2009 VMI Baseball Overall Statistics for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (Big South games only Sorted by Batting avg)

Record: 7-10 Home: 4-5 Away: 3-5 Big South: 7-10

Player AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%

YODER, A.J...... 413 17-17 80 19 33 8 1 1 13 46 .575 3 2 9 0 .447 0 0 4-5 37 45 4 .953 ROBERTS, Sam...... 391 17-17 64 22 25 4 0 1 8 32 .500 13 2 10 1 .500 1 2 4-5 43 1 1 .978 BALLARD, Jordan...... 381 17-17 63 15 24 9 0 3 17 42 .667 12 0 17 0 .480 0 1 0-1 163 11 3 .983 BIAGINI, Tanner...... 366 17-17 82 25 30 4 0 6 19 52 .634 1 0 11 1 .373 0 1 0-0 13 44 5 .919 SANDRIDGE, Brian.... .321 16-15 56 9 18 2 0 3 12 29 .518 3 4 10 0 .391 1 1 0-0 18 1 0 1.000 TOPPING, Justin...... 320 15-13 50 8 16 4 0 1 11 23 .460 4 1 10 1 .375 1 3 0-1 0 0 0 .000 HAITSUKA, Alex...... 279 17-17 61 11 17 2 2 5 24 38 .623 4 7 21 0 .389 0 2 0-1 106 25 4 .970 MORLEY, Jacob...... 246 15-15 57 11 14 0 0 0 6 14 .246 5 0 12 0 .306 0 2 8-8 22 1 0 1.000 MYERS, Steele...... 135 11-10 37 2 5 1 1 0 4 8 .216 1 0 13 2 .146 3 0 0-0 17 41 2 .967 ------MARTIN, Brooks...... 500 2-0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500 0 0 1 0 .500 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 .000 PICCIRILLI, George.. .250 4-3 12 1 3 0 0 0 1 3 .250 3 0 1 0 .400 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 .000 SULLIVAN, Graham.... .219 15-8 32 5 7 1 0 2 5 14 .438 4 0 8 0 .306 0 1 0-0 8 16 9 .727 DEVINE, Michael...... 200 4-0 5 1 1 0 0 1 2 4 .800 0 0 1 0 .200 0 1 0-0 7 2 0 1.000 MILLER, Colin...... 188 11-4 16 1 3 0 0 0 0 3 .188 1 0 3 0 .235 0 1 0-0 6 2 0 1.000 GOODALE, Kyle...... 000 4-0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 0 .333 0 0 0-0 4 0 1 .800 WORTHINGTON, Chase.. .000 2-0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0-0 0 0 1 .000 BROWN, Tyler...... 000 4-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 .000 PEED, Jeremy...... 000 2-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 .000 0 0 0-0 0 0 1 .000

Totals...... 316 17-17 623 130 197 35 4 23 122 309 .496 55 16 129 5 .383 6 15 16-21 450 208 33 .952 Opponents...... 304 17-17 599 111 182 38 5 12 98 266 .444 50 21 111 7 .375 5 16 13-23 450 176 18 .972

LOB - Team (135), Opp (130). DPs turned - Team (14), Opp (9). IBB - Team (1), YODER, A.J. 1, Opp (1). Picked off - BIAGINI, T. 1, BALLARD, J. 1, MYERS, S. 1.

(Big South games only Sorted by Earned run avg)

Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA

SMINK, Travis...... 3.00 4-0 6 6 1 0/0 0 42.0 46 17 14 12 33 7 2 3 161 .286 4 1 0 2 3 HENDERSON, Chris.... 4.69 2-3 6 6 1 0/0 0 40.1 41 32 21 9 28 11 1 3 156 .263 0 9 0 2 7 EDWARDS, Matt...... 9.87 1-3 9 0 0 0/0 1 17.1 33 24 19 7 9 4 1 2 79 .418 0 2 0 1 5 ------ROBERTS, Sam...... 0.00 0-0 5 0 0 0/0 1 6.1 5 1 0 1 9 0 0 0 25 .200 1 0 0 0 0 McPHERSON, Josh..... 2.70 0-0 3 0 0 0/0 0 3.1 2 2 1 2 2 0 1 0 12 .167 0 0 0 0 0 DEAL, Andrew...... 3.46 0-0 5 1 0 0/0 0 13.0 12 6 5 4 9 3 0 0 48 .250 1 2 0 0 0 BROWN, Jeremy...... 4.91 0-2 2 2 0 0/0 0 7.1 10 7 4 3 6 2 0 1 29 .345 0 0 0 0 0 DEVINE, Michael..... 5.00 0-1 4 0 0 0/0 0 9.0 14 8 5 5 9 2 0 0 36 .389 3 1 0 0 1 KRUITHOF, Adam...... 6.14 0-1 6 2 0 0/0 0 7.1 10 6 5 4 3 6 0 1 32 .313 1 5 0 0 0 WATTS, Alan...... 10.80 0-0 2 0 0 0/0 0 1.2 3 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 8 .375 0 1 0 0 0 LOPEZ, Adam...... 15.43 0-0 2 0 0 0/0 0 2.1 6 6 4 1 3 2 0 2 13 .462 2 0 0 0 0

Totals...... 4.80 7-10 17 17 2 0/0 2 150.0 182 111 80 50 111 38 5 12 599 .304 12 21 0 5 16 Opponents...... 7.14 10-7 17 17 1 0/0 4 150.0 197 130 119 55 129 35 4 23 623 .316 18 16 3 6 15

PB - Team (6), HAITSUKA, A. 6, Opp (2). Pickoffs - Team (7), SMINK, T. 3, HAITSUKA, A. 2, BROWN, J. 1, LOPEZ, A. 1, Opp (3). SBA/ATT - HAITSUKA, A. (12-22), SMINK, T. (4-6), DEAL, A. (3-6), DEVINE, M. (2-4), McPHERSON, J (2-2), KRUITHOF, A. (1-2), EDWARDS, M. (1-1), GOODALE, K. (1-1), BROWN, J. (0-1), HENDERSON, C (0-1). 2009 VMI Baseball Games Summary for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (All games)

Inning-by-inning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 EX Total ------VMI 27 36 14 46 52 13 24 23 11 4 250 Opponents 29 37 22 38 42 44 41 36 17 10 316

Win-Loss Record When ------Overall...... 14-26 After 6 leading..... 11-4 Conference...... 7-10 ...... trailing.... 2-20 Non-Conference...... 7-16 ...... tied...... 1-2 Home games...... 10-11 After 7 leading..... 10-2 Away games...... 4-15 ...... trailing.... 0-21 Neutral site...... 0-0 ...... tied...... 4-2 Day games...... 12-24 After 8 leading..... 10-1 Night games...... 2-2 ...... trailing.... 1-18 vs Left starter..... 4-6 ...... tied...... 2-5 vs Right starter.... 10-20 1-Run games...... 4-4 Hit 0 home runs..... 5-13 2-Run games...... 1-2 ... 1 home run...... 2-9 5+Run games...... 7-14 ... 2+ home runs.... 7-4 Extra innings...... 2-4 Shutouts...... 0-1 Opponent 0 home runs 7-13 ...... 1 home run. 6-6 Scoring 0-2 runs.... 0-5 ...... 2+ HRs..... 1-7 ...... 3-5 runs.... 2-16 ...... 6-9 runs.... 4-5 Made 0 errors...... 5-4 ...... 10+ runs.... 8-0 .... 1 error...... 3-6 .... 2+ errors...... 6-16 Opponent 0-2 runs... 2-1 ...... 3-5 runs... 8-3 Opp. made 0 errors.. 4-10 ...... 6-9 runs... 1-11 ...... 1 error... 2-7 ...... 10+ runs... 3-11 ...... 2+ errors. 8-9

Scored in 1st inning 6-7 Out-hit opponent.... 11-4 Opp. scored in 1st.. 3-15 Out-hit by opponent. 2-21 Scores first...... 11-8 Hits are tied...... 1-1 Opp. scores first... 3-18

Record when team scores: Runs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ W-L 0-1 0-1 0-3 0-8 2-5 0-3 2-1 2-1 0-3 0-0 8-0

Record when opponent scores: Runs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ W-L 0-0 1-0 1-1 3-0 3-2 2-1 1-2 0-3 0-1 0-5 3-11

Record when leading after: Inn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 W-L 5-4 10-6 10-4 12-4 13-4 11-4 10-2 10-1

Record when trailing after: Inn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 W-L 2-12 2-18 2-18 1-17 1-19 2-20 0-21 1-18

Record when tied after: Inn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 W-L 7-10 2-2 2-4 1-5 0-3 1-2 4-2 2-5

Current winning streak : 1 Longest winning streak : 3 Longest losing streak : 8

Home attendance : 4839 ( 21 dates avg = 230 ) Away attendance : 11501 ( 19 dates avg = 605 ) Total attendance: 16340 ( 40 dates avg = 408 ) 2009 VMI Baseball Team Game-by-Game for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) Batting (All games)

Date Opponent AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB IBB SB CS HBP SAC SF GDP K PO A E Avg

Feb 20, 2009 at North Carolina 40 3 13 3 1 0 1 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 17 23 12 1 .325 Feb 21, 2009 at North Carolina 30 0 4 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12 24 6 2 .243 Feb 22, 2009 at North Carolina 34 3 7 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15 24 13 2 .231 Feb 24, 2009 Old Dominion 38 4 10 3 1 1 0 6 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 4 33 12 0 .239 Feb 25, 2009 at Richmond 35 4 10 4 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 24 10 6 .249 Feb 27, 2009 Youngstown State 34 6 8 4 3 0 0 4 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 8 27 13 3 .246 Feb 28, 2009 Youngstown State 33 4 9 4 3 0 0 7 0 2 0 1 3 1 0 7 27 11 2 .250 Mar 04, 2009 William & Mary 37 7 15 7 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 27 12 1 .270 Mar 06, 2009 Rider 44 7 10 6 3 0 1 3 1 2 0 1 3 1 1 12 36 25 2 .265 Mar 07, 2009 Rider 35 17 16 14 3 0 2 4 1 1 0 2 2 3 0 4 27 7 2 .283 Mar 07, 2009 Rider 33 8 13 7 1 1 2 5 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 10 21 11 4 .293 Mar 08, 2009 Rider 36 12 13 11 3 0 2 4 0 3 2 2 0 0 0 4 27 17 2 .298 Mar 10, 2009 at Norfolk State 32 4 7 3 2 0 0 11 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 11 27 3 0 .293 Mar 11, 2009 at Virginia 31 3 6 2 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 8 24 11 0 .287 Mar 14, 2009 at *Presbyterian 48 14 21 13 3 0 2 6 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 27 11 1 .300 Mar 15, 2009 at *Presbyterian 33 12 11 9 1 0 0 5 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 9 24 8 3 .302 Mar 17, 2009 at Virginia Tech 35 5 8 5 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 12 24 11 3 .298 Mar 18, 2009 at Virginia Tech 37 3 11 3 2 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 7 24 6 0 .298 Mar 20, 2009 *UNC Asheville 35 6 11 6 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 7 27 11 0 .299 Mar 21, 2009 *UNC Asheville 37 13 15 13 4 0 1 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 10 27 13 3 .304 Mar 22, 2009 *UNC Asheville 37 4 10 4 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 7 27 11 6 .302 Mar 24, 2009 Richmond 37 1 5 1 0 0 0 3 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 15 33 14 2 .295 Mar 27, 2009 at *Charleston Southern 34 5 9 4 1 0 0 4 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 4 29 11 2 .293 Mar 29, 2009 at *Charleston Southern 44 11 18 11 2 0 2 2 0 5 0 0 2 0 1 6 27 9 3 .299 Mar 29, 2009 at *Charleston Southern 33 2 8 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12 24 10 1 .297 Mar 31, 2009 at VCU 41 8 12 7 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 24 10 5 .297 Apr 03, 2009 *Liberty 37 13 16 13 4 1 4 6 1 1 0 1 3 1 0 7 27 13 0 .302 Apr 04, 2009 *Liberty 35 7 9 7 0 0 3 5 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 10 27 14 0 .300 Apr 05, 2009 *Liberty 33 3 6 2 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 27 16 1 .297 Apr 08, 2009 VCU 34 3 9 3 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 8 27 10 1 .296 Apr 10, 2009 *Gardner-Webb 46 21 25 20 1 1 7 5 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 6 27 10 1 .306 Apr 11, 2009 *Gardner-Webb 35 5 8 4 4 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8 27 8 2 .304 Apr 11, 2009 *Gardner-Webb 34 4 9 4 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 10 27 13 1 .302 Apr 14, 2009 at James Madison 28 2 5 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 21 6 3 .300 Apr 15, 2009 Longwood 41 8 15 8 0 0 2 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 27 7 0 .302 Apr 17, 2009 at *Radford 33 3 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 24 18 4 .299 Apr 18, 2009 at *Radford 34 3 4 3 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 10 28 20 2 .295 Apr 19, 2009 at *Radford 35 4 10 4 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 5 24 12 3 .295 Apr 21, 2009 at Old Dominion 36 2 7 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 11 29 9 1 .292 Apr 22, 2009 Norfolk State 31 6 9 6 2 0 0 4 2 2 1 2 1 0 1 8 27 11 0 .292

Totals 1435 250 419 230 75 6 41 138 6 47 16 36 31 12 14 345 1057 455 75 .292 2009 VMI Baseball Team Game-by-Game for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) Pitching (All games)

Date Opponent IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR WP BK HBP DP IBB Score W-L SV ERA

Feb 20, 2009 at North Carolina 8.0 16 13 12 6 7 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3-13 0-1 0 13.50 Feb 21, 2009 at North Carolina 8.0 10 6 5 3 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-6 0-2 0 9.56 Feb 22, 2009 at North Carolina 8.0 15 11 11 5 3 2 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 3-11 0-3 0 10.50 Feb 24, 2009 Old Dominion 11.0 7 3 3 3 14 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4-3 1-3 0 7.97 Feb 25, 2009 at Richmond 8.0 14 10 9 4 11 5 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 4-10 1-4 0 8.37 Feb 27, 2009 Youngstown State 9.0 9 7 6 3 7 4 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 6-7 1-5 0 7.96 Feb 28, 2009 Youngstown State 9.0 14 9 5 5 14 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4-9 1-6 0 7.52 Mar 04, 2009 William & Mary 9.0 6 4 4 7 9 2 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 7-4 2-6 1 7.07 Mar 06, 2009 Rider 12.0 10 4 3 4 10 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 7-4 3-6 1 6.37 Mar 07, 2009 Rider 9.0 14 11 9 2 9 4 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 17-11 4-6 1 6.63 Mar 07, 2009 Rider 7.0 13 12 8 5 5 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 8-12 4-7 1 6.89 Mar 08, 2009 Rider 9.0 16 11 10 2 5 2 0 1 1 1 2 3 0 12-11 5-7 1 7.15 Mar 10, 2009 at Norfolk State 9.0 6 3 3 0 10 4 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 4-3 6-7 2 6.83 Mar 11, 2009 at Virginia 8.0 12 10 10 2 3 2 1 0 4 1 3 0 0 3-10 6-8 2 7.11 Mar 14, 2009 at *Presbyterian 9.0 6 4 2 6 8 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 14-4 7-8 2 6.77 Mar 15, 2009 at *Presbyterian 8.0 12 10 6 1 9 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 12-10 8-8 3 6.77 Mar 17, 2009 at Virginia Tech 8.0 23 14 11 3 4 5 2 0 2 1 3 1 0 5-14 8-9 3 7.07 Mar 18, 2009 at Virginia Tech 8.0 9 7 6 4 6 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3-7 8-10 3 7.05 Mar 20, 2009 *UNC Asheville 9.0 7 1 1 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6-1 9-10 3 6.72 Mar 21, 2009 *UNC Asheville 9.0 5 2 1 0 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 13-2 10-10 3 6.43 Mar 22, 2009 *UNC Asheville 9.0 11 9 2 2 9 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 4-9 10-11 3 6.21 Mar 24, 2009 Richmond 11.0 4 2 1 4 10 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1-2 10-12 3 5.91 Mar 27, 2009 at *Charleston Southern 9.2 14 9 9 1 7 4 1 3 2 0 0 0 1 5-9 10-13 3 6.02 Mar 29, 2009 at *Charleston Southern 9.0 6 5 2 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 11-5 11-13 3 5.85 Mar 29, 2009 at *Charleston Southern 8.0 11 7 6 3 7 5 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 2-7 11-14 3 5.89 Mar 31, 2009 at VCU 8.0 14 17 11 6 6 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 0 8-17 11-15 3 6.11 Apr 03, 2009 *Liberty 9.0 15 6 6 4 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 13-6 12-15 4 6.11 Apr 04, 2009 *Liberty 9.0 14 9 6 4 7 5 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 7-9 12-16 4 6.10 Apr 05, 2009 *Liberty 9.0 11 4 3 2 3 4 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 3-4 12-17 4 6.00 Apr 08, 2009 VCU 9.0 13 9 8 2 12 3 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 3-9 12-18 4 6.06 Apr 10, 2009 *Gardner-Webb 9.0 8 3 3 1 5 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 21-3 13-18 4 5.96 Apr 11, 2009 *Gardner-Webb 9.0 12 8 7 4 10 6 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 5-8 13-19 4 6.00 Apr 11, 2009 *Gardner-Webb 9.0 14 15 11 5 7 4 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 4-15 13-20 4 6.15 Apr 14, 2009 at James Madison 7.0 21 20 17 7 7 6 1 4 3 0 1 0 0 2-20 13-21 4 6.52 Apr 15, 2009 Longwood 9.0 11 11 11 2 12 2 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 8-11 13-22 4 6.65 Apr 17, 2009 at *Radford 8.0 14 5 4 6 6 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3-5 13-23 4 6.59 Apr 18, 2009 at *Radford 9.1 8 4 3 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3-4 13-24 4 6.49 Apr 19, 2009 at *Radford 8.0 14 10 8 5 4 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 4-10 13-25 4 6.55 Apr 21, 2009 at Old Dominion 9.2 4 6 1 7 11 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 2-6 13-26 4 6.39 Apr 22, 2009 Norfolk State 9.0 7 5 5 2 9 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 6-5 14-26 4 6.35

Totals 352.2 450 316 249 138 297 102 14 34 38 7 61 15 1 250-316 14-26 4 6.35

* = Big South game 2009 VMI Baseball AB-R-H-RBI Breakdown for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (All games)

#26 #24 #39 #25 #33 #28 #16 #30 #8 #6 #17 #2 #4 #31 #23 #5 #34 #10 Opponent Date BALLARD, BIAGINI, BROWN,T DEVINE,M GOODALE, HAITSUKA MARTIN,B MILLER,C MORLEY,J MYERS,S PEED,J PICCIRIL ROBERTS, SANDRIDG SULLIVAN TOPPING, WORTHING YODER,AJ ------NC Feb 20 5-1-2-1 5-0-1-1 ...... 2-0-1-1 ...... 2-0-0-0 1-0-1-0 ...... 3-1-1-0 5-0-2-0 4-0-2-0 4-1-2-0 ...... 5-0-1-0 NC Feb 21 3-0-0-0 4-0-1-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 ...... 2-0-1-0 ...... 3-0-1-0 ...... 4-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-1-0 NC Feb 22 3-1-2-3 2-1-1-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 ...... 2-0-0-0 ...... Def.. 3-0-1-0 1-0-0-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 4-1-1-0 4-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 2-0-2-0 4-0-0-0 ODU Feb 24 4-0-1-0 4-0-0-0 ...... 4-1-1-1 ...... 4-0-3-2 ...... 1-0-0-0 5-0-1-0 4-1-1-0 3-0-0-0 4-1-2-0 ...... 5-0-1-0 RICHMOND Feb 25 4-0-1-1 4-1-2-2 ...... 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 2-0-1-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 3-0-1-0 ...... 3-0-1-0 4-1-1-1 1-0-0-0 4-0-0-0 ...... 4-2-3-0 YSU Feb 27 5-0-2-1 5-0-0-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-1-1 ...... Def.. 1-1-1-0 ...... 3-1-0-0 3-1-1-0 3-1-1-1 2-0-0-0 ...... 5-0-1-1 YSU Feb 28 5-0-0-0 3-0-1-0 ...... 4-1-2-1 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... 4-1-1-1 5-2-2-0 3-0-1-1 2-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-2-1 W&M Mar 04 5-1-5-3 5-2-3-1 ...... 4-0-1-0 ...... 4-2-2-0 1-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-0-1 5-0-3-1 3-0-0-1 3-0-0-0 ..Def.. 4-2-1-0 RID Mar 06 4-1-0-0 5-1-2-0 ...... 5-2-2-3 ...... 3-0-2-0 6-0-0-0 ...... 2-0-1-2 2-2-1-1 5-0-0-0 5-0-1-0 ...... 5-0-1-0 RID Mar 07 3-1-2-2 4-2-3-1 ...... Def.. 4-2-1-0 ...... Def.. 3-2-1-5 ...... 2-2-2-1 5-2-2-3 3-2-1-1 5-1-2-0 1-0-0-0 ...... 5-3-2-1 RID Mar 07 4-1-0-0 4-1-1-0 ...... Def.. 2-1-0-0 ...... Def.. 5-0-3-1 ...... 4-1-1-1 4-1-4-3 3-1-1-0 3-2-2-1 ...... 4-0-1-1 RID Mar 08 4-1-3-2 5-1-0-0 ...... 4-2-1-1 ...... Def.. 4-1-1-1 ...... 2-2-2-2 4-2-1-2 5-1-1-0 3-2-2-1 ...... 5-0-2-2 NSU Mar 10 4-0-0-0 4-1-2-1 ...... 1-0-1-1 2-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-1-0 ...... 4-0-1-0 2-1-0-0 3-1-0-0 4-1-1-1 ...... 4-0-1-0 VA Mar 11 3-2-1-1 4-0-1-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 ...... Def.. 3-0-1-0 2-1-1-0 4-0-0-1 3-0-1-0 1-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-1-0 PCBASE Mar 14 2-1-2-2 7-3-1-1 ...... 4-2-2-0 ...... 7-2-2-0 ...... 5-0-2-0 6-0-2-3 4-3-3-2 6-2-2-3 ...... 7-1-5-2 PCBASE Mar 15 2-0-0-0 5-3-2-1 ...... 2-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-1-2 ...... Def.. 4-2-1-0 ...... 3-1-1-1 3-2-2-2 3-1-1-0 2-1-0-0 1-1-1-2 ...... 5-1-2-1 VT Mar 17 ...... 4-0-2-1 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 4-1-2-0 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 3-1-0-0 4-0-1-1 4-1-1-1 3-1-1-0 3-1-1-1 1-0-0-0 3-0-0-1 VT Mar 18 5-1-2-2 5-0-1-0 ...... 4-0-2-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 ...... Def.. 2-0-0-0 4-1-1-0 4-0-1-1 4-0-1-0 1-0-1-0 ...... 4-1-2-0 UNCA Mar 20 4-0-0-0 4-1-1-1 ...... 4-0-0-0 ...... 4-1-2-2 ...... 4-2-2-1 4-1-1-0 4-0-1-0 3-1-2-0 ...... 4-0-2-2 UNCA Mar 21 3-3-3-6 5-2-2-1 ...... 1-0-0-0 ...... 5-1-2-1 ...... 1-0-1-0 4-1-2-0 ...... 3-2-1-0 3-0-0-0 4-1-1-1 4-0-1-4 ...... 4-3-2-0 UNCA Mar 22 5-0-1-0 5-0-2-1 ...... 3-0-1-1 ...... 4-1-1-0 4-0-1-1 ...... 4-1-1-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 4-1-1-1 1-0-0-0 4-1-2-0 RICHMOND Mar 24 ...... 5-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... 2-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 4-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 4-1-2-0 4-0-2-1 4-0-1-0 ...... 4-0-0-0 CSU Mar 27 3-1-0-0 4-0-1-0 ...... 3-0-1-3 ...... 4-1-1-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 4-2-1-0 4-0-2-1 4-0-0-0 ...... 5-1-3-0 CSU Mar 29 4-1-2-0 6-3-3-4 ...... 5-0-1-2 ...... Def.. 5-2-3-1 5-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-2-1 5-0-1-1 ...... 5-2-3-2 ...... 5-3-3-0 CSU Mar 29 4-0-0-0 4-0-1-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 2-0-1-0 2-0-1-0 ...... 4-2-3-0 4-0-2-1 1-0-0-0 3-0-0-1 ...... 4-0-0-0 VCU Mar 31 5-2-3-1 4-1-1-0 ...... 1-0-0-1 3-0-1-0 1-1-0-0 2-0-1-2 3-1-1-0 3-0-1-0 ...... 2-0-0-0 4-1-1-1 4-1-2-2 1-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 4-0-1-0 LIBERTY Apr 03 5-1-3-4 6-2-2-2 ...... 4-3-3-5 ...... 4-0-0-0 4-0-1-1 ...... 2-2-1-0 3-3-2-1 0-0-0-0 4-0-1-0 ...... 5-2-3-0 LIBERTY Apr 04 3-2-3-2 5-2-2-1 ...... 5-1-1-3 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-0-0 ...... 3-2-0-0 3-0-1-1 ...... 4-0-2-0 ...... 5-0-0-0 LIBERTY Apr 05 4-2-2-0 4-0-1-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... Def.. 3-0-0-1 3-0-0-0 ..Def...... 2-1-0-0 4-0-1-1 1-0-0-0 3-0-2-0 ...... 5-0-0-0 VCU Apr 08 4-0-1-0 2-0-2-1 ...... 4-1-1-2 ...... Def.. 3-1-1-0 3-0-1-0 ...... 4-0-2-0 4-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 4-0-0-0 ...... 5-1-1-0 GWU Apr 10 5-3-3-0 6-4-4-4 ...... 1-1-1-2 0-0-0-0 4-3-3-6 1-0-1-0 2-0-1-0 5-0-1-1 2-1-1-2 ...... 1-0-0-0 4-2-3-1 3-0-1-0 2-1-1-1 4-1-0-0 ...... 6-5-5-3 GWU Apr 11 4-0-1-0 4-1-2-0 ...... 4-0-0-0 ...... 2-2-0-0 3-0-0-1 ...... 5-1-2-0 4-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 5-1-2-0 ...... 4-0-1-3 GWU Apr 11 4-0-0-0 4-1-2-1 1-0-0-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 3-0-1-1 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 3-1-1-0 1-0-0-0 ...... 3-1-1-0 ..Def.. 1-0-0-0 2-1-1-1 1-0-0-0 4-0-3-1 JMU Apr 14 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 ...... Def.. ..Def.. 3-0-2-1 ..Def.. 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 3-1-3-1 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-1-0-0 LW Apr 15 5-2-4-2 4-2-1-1 ...... 5-1-1-1 ...... 4-0-1-0 ...... 5-1-1-0 5-1-3-1 4-1-1-3 4-0-1-0 ...... 5-0-2-0 RAD Apr 17 4-0-2-0 4-1-2-0 ..Def...... 4-1-1-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 ...... 4-1-1-0 4-0-1-2 ..Def.. 3-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-0-1 RAD Apr 18 3-1-2-3 5-1-1-0 ..Def...... 2-0-0-0 ...... Def.. 3-0-0-0 4-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-0-0 4-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 4-0-0-0 ...... 5-1-1-0 RAD Apr 19 4-0-0-0 4-1-1-2 ..Def...... Def.. 2-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... 4-0-1-0 ...... 5-1-3-0 4-1-2-2 4-0-2-0 1-0-0-0 ...... 4-1-1-0 ODU Apr 21 5-0-1-0 5-0-2-0 ...... 2-0-0-0 3-0-1-0 0-0-0-0 ...... 1-0-0-0 4-0-1-0 ...... 5-1-0-0 3-0-0-0 3-0-1-0 2-0-0-0 ...... 3-1-1-2 NSU Apr 22 4-0-0-0 5-0-1-1 ..Def.. 3-1-0-0 ...... 4-2-2-0 ...... 3-1-1-0 3-1-1-2 ...... 3-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-2-1 0-0-0-0 ...... 3-0-2-2 2009 VMI Baseball IP-H-R-ER-BB-SO Breakdown for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (All games)

#3 #29 #32 #25 #14 #7 #9 Opponent Date BROWN,J BRUST,T DEAL,A DEVINE,M EDWARDS,M HENDERSON,C KRUITHOF,A ------North Carolina Feb 20 ...... 2.2- 7- 4- 4- 1- 2 0.0- 2- 3- 3- 1- 0 ...... North Carolina Feb 21 ...... 6.1- 7- 3- 2- 2- 2* ...... North Carolina Feb 22 0.0- 4- 5- 5- 2- 0 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 1 ...... 4.0- 6- 1- 1- 0- 1 ...... Old Dominion Feb 24 ...... 5.0- 3- 2- 2- 2- 5* ...... Richmond Feb 25 4.0- 6- 2- 1- 2- 7* 1.0- 2- 2- 2- 0- 0 1.0- 1- 1- 1- 1- 2 ...... 0.0- 1- 2- 2- 1- 0 Youngstown State Feb 27 ...... Youngstown State Feb 28 ...... 1.0- 1- 1- 1- 2- 2 ...... 5.1- 6- 3- 3- 2- 7* 0.1- 2- 0- 0- 0- 0 William & Mary Mar 04 3.0- 1- 0- 0- 2- 3 ...... 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 2- 1 ...... 0.1- 0- 0- 0- 0- 1 ...... Rider Mar 06 ...... 4.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 5 ...... Rider Mar 07 3.2- 4- 2- 2- 1- 5 0.0- 2- 3- 3- 1- 0 2.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 3 3.1- 7- 6- 4- 0- 1* ...... Rider Mar 07 ...... 3.1-10- 8- 4- 1- 4* 1.2- 1- 1- 1- 0- 1 Rider Mar 08 ...... Norfolk State Mar 10 ...... 2.0- 3- 2- 2- 0- 0 ...... 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 1 ...... Virginia Mar 11 2.0- 2- 2- 2- 1- 0* 0.1- 1- 2- 2- 0- 1 ...... 1.1- 2- 3- 3- 0- 0 ...... 2.1- 6- 2- 2- 1- 2 Presbyterian Mar 14 ...... 1.2- 2- 2- 2- 2- 0 ...... 0.1- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0 Presbyterian Mar 15 ...... 2.0- 4- 2- 2- 0- 1 5.1- 7- 8- 4- 1- 6* ...... Virginia Tech Mar 17 ...... 2.0- 5- 4- 1- 0- 1 ...... 1.2- 7- 7- 7- 1- 1* ...... Virginia Tech Mar 18 3.0- 3- 3- 3- 3- 1* ...... 1.0- 3- 2- 1- 0- 1 1.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 1 2.0- 2- 2- 2- 1- 2 UNC Asheville Mar 20 ...... UNC Asheville Mar 21 ...... 9.0- 5- 2- 1- 0- 6* ...... UNC Asheville Mar 22 5.0- 7- 5- 2- 2- 6* ...... 3.1- 3- 3- 0- 0- 2 ...... 0.2- 1- 1- 0- 0- 1 Richmond Mar 24 ...... 3.1- 2- 0- 0- 1- 5 ...... 5.2- 0- 1- 0- 3- 4* Charleston Souther Mar 27 ...... 2.1- 3- 4- 4- 1- 2 ...... Charleston Souther Mar 29 ...... 1.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 0 ...... 7.0- 5- 5- 2- 2- 3* 0.0- 0- 0- 0- 2- 0 Charleston Souther Mar 29 2.1- 3- 2- 2- 1- 0* ...... 2.1- 4- 2- 2- 0- 4 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 1 ...... VCU Mar 31 ...... 0.2- 2- 3- 3- 1- 0 ...... 2.0- 3- 3- 2- 1- 0* Liberty Apr 03 ...... 3.1- 6- 1- 1- 1- 1 ...... Liberty Apr 04 ...... 1.2- 0- 0- 0- 0- 2 2.1- 4- 2- 0- 2- 2 ...... 5.0-10- 7- 6- 2- 3* ...... Liberty Apr 05 ...... 2.0- 3- 2- 2- 0- 1 ...... 4.1- 6- 1- 1- 1- 1* VCU Apr 08 ...... 1.1- 1- 1- 1- 0- 2 1.1- 2- 0- 0- 0- 0 ...... 1.2- 0- 0- 0- 0- 5 ...... Gardner-Webb Apr 10 ...... Gardner-Webb Apr 11 ...... 4.1- 5- 2- 2- 1- 6 ...... 4.2- 7- 6- 5- 3- 4* ...... Gardner-Webb Apr 11 ...... 2.2- 2- 1- 0- 2- 1 1.0- 6- 7- 5- 2- 0 ...... 2.0- 2- 4- 4- 1- 1* James Madison Apr 14 ...... 0.2- 2- 3- 3- 0- 1 ...... 0.1- 4- 3- 3- 1- 0 Longwood Apr 15 ...... 0.0- 1- 3- 3- 1- 0 4.0- 6- 4- 4- 0- 5* 2.0- 1- 2- 2- 1- 2 3.0- 3- 2- 2- 0- 5 ...... Radford Apr 17 ...... 2.0- 5- 2- 2- 2- 1 ...... Radford Apr 18 ...... 9.1- 7- 4- 3- 1- 6* ...... Radford Apr 19 ...... 4.1- 4- 2- 1- 1- 1* 1.2- 4- 3- 3- 1- 2 0.1- 3- 3- 3- 1- 0 ...... 0.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 0 Old Dominion Apr 21 ...... 1.2- 2- 4- 0- 2- 5 5.0- 1- 1- 1- 2- 5* ...... Norfolk State Apr 22 ...... 3.1- 0- 0- 0- 0- 5 ...... 2009 VMI Baseball IP-H-R-ER-BB-SO Breakdown for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (All games)

#20 #27 #11 #12 #4 #35 #36 Opponent Date LOPEZ,A MCPHERSON,J PHELPS,J RIVERA,K ROBERTS,S SMINK,T WATTS,A ------North Carolina Feb 20 ...... 1.0- 1- 0- 0- 1- 1 ...... 4.1- 6- 6- 5- 3- 4* ...... North Carolina Feb 21 ...... 1.2- 3- 3- 3- 1- 0 North Carolina Feb 22 ...... 2.0- 2- 2- 2- 3- 0* ...... 1.0- 3- 3- 3- 0- 1 ...... Old Dominion Feb 24 ...... 2.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 3 ...... 3.2- 1- 0- 0- 1- 6 0.1- 2- 1- 1- 0- 0 Richmond Feb 25 1.1- 2- 2- 2- 0- 2 ...... 0.2- 2- 1- 1- 0- 0 Youngstown State Feb 27 ...... 1.2- 2- 1- 1- 0- 1 5.2- 5- 3- 3- 3- 4* ...... 1.2- 2- 3- 2- 0- 2 ...... Youngstown State Feb 28 ...... 0.0- 2- 2- 0- 0- 0 ...... 2.1- 3- 3- 1- 1- 5 ...... William & Mary Mar 04 2.0- 0- 0- 0- 1- 3 0.2- 4- 2- 2- 0- 0 2.0- 0- 0- 0- 2- 1* ...... 0.0- 1- 2- 2- 0- 0 Rider Mar 06 0.0- 1- 2- 2- 1- 0 ...... 2.0- 1- 1- 0- 2- 2 6.0- 7- 1- 1- 1- 3* ...... Rider Mar 07 ...... Rider Mar 07 ...... 1.1- 2- 3- 3- 4- 0 ...... 0.2- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0 ...... Rider Mar 08 0.0- 1- 2- 2- 1- 0 ...... 6.0- 8- 4- 3- 1- 4* 1.0- 4- 4- 4- 0- 0 2.0- 3- 1- 1- 0- 1 ...... Norfolk State Mar 10 4.0- 2- 0- 0- 0- 7* 0.1- 1- 1- 1- 0- 0 ...... 1.2- 0- 0- 0- 0- 2 ...... Virginia Mar 11 ...... 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0 ...... 1.0- 1- 1- 1- 0- 0 ...... Presbyterian Mar 14 ...... 7.0- 4- 2- 0- 4- 8* ...... Presbyterian Mar 15 ...... 0.2- 1- 0- 0- 0- 2 ...... Virginia Tech Mar 17 2.1- 6- 2- 2- 2- 1 ...... 1.0- 4- 1- 1- 0- 1 ...... 1.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 0 Virginia Tech Mar 18 ...... 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 1 ...... UNC Asheville Mar 20 ...... 9.0- 7- 1- 1- 1- 5* ...... UNC Asheville Mar 21 ...... UNC Asheville Mar 22 ...... Richmond Mar 24 ...... 2.0- 2- 1- 1- 0- 1 ...... Charleston Souther Mar 27 ...... 7.1-11- 5- 5- 0- 5* ...... Charleston Souther Mar 29 ...... 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 3 ...... Charleston Souther Mar 29 1.0- 3- 3- 2- 1- 1 1.1- 1- 0- 0- 1- 1 ...... VCU Mar 31 0.2- 4- 5- 2- 1- 1 1.1- 3- 5- 4- 2- 2 ...... 2.1- 2- 0- 0- 0- 3 ...... 1.0- 0- 1- 0- 1- 0 Liberty Apr 03 ...... 5.2- 9- 5- 5- 3- 5* ...... Liberty Apr 04 ...... Liberty Apr 05 ...... 2.2- 2- 1- 0- 1- 1 ...... VCU Apr 08 2.0- 2- 1- 1- 0- 3 0.2- 2- 1- 1- 1- 0 ...... 1.0- 4- 3- 3- 0- 1* 1.0- 2- 3- 2- 1- 1 ...... Gardner-Webb Apr 10 ...... 1.0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0 ...... 7.0- 6- 1- 1- 0- 5* 1.0- 2- 2- 2- 1- 0 Gardner-Webb Apr 11 ...... Gardner-Webb Apr 11 1.1- 3- 3- 2- 0- 2 ...... 2.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 3 ...... James Madison Apr 14 2.0- 4- 2- 2- 2- 2 ...... 2.0- 6- 8- 5- 2- 2* ...... 1.1- 5- 4- 4- 2- 1 Longwood Apr 15 ...... Radford Apr 17 ...... 6.0- 9- 3- 2- 4- 5* ...... Radford Apr 18 ...... 0.0- 1- 0- 0- 0- 0 ...... Radford Apr 19 ...... 1.0- 1- 2- 1- 1- 1 ...... 0.2- 1- 0- 0- 1- 0 Old Dominion Apr 21 ...... 3.0- 1- 1- 0- 3- 1 ...... Norfolk State Apr 22 5.1- 5- 2- 2- 2- 4* 0.1- 2- 3- 3- 0- 0 ...... 2009 VMI Baseball Individual Season/Career Summary for VMI (as of Apr 23, 2009) (All games Sorted by Batting avg)

Record: 14-26 Home: 10-11 Away: 4-15 Big South: 7-10

SEASON CAREER

Player AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB HBP SO SB-ATT AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB HBP SO SB-ATT

BALLARD, Jordan...... 360 38-38 150 29 54 13 0 8 36 19 2 39 2-4 | .309 109-102 391 72 121 26 0 20 78 44 17 99 5-8 YODER, A.J...... 345 40-40 174 30 60 9 2 2 24 12 5 26 10-16 | .295 188-181 681 119 201 34 10 7 89 53 43 65 28-42 BIAGINI, Tanner...... 328 40-40 177 38 58 12 0 7 29 10 2 39 2-3 | .310 127-116 464 85 144 25 0 17 82 38 10 95 5-6 ROBERTS, Sam...... 318 40-40 148 40 47 5 0 4 21 30 2 29 7-9 | .334 90-89 332 70 111 19 1 4 47 58 3 56 19-23 SANDRIDGE, Brian.... .301 38-37 143 23 43 9 0 5 23 7 8 29 3-4 | .308 126-108 429 70 132 23 1 15 79 23 16 94 10-14 HAITSUKA, Alex...... 284 40-37 134 24 38 8 2 8 36 12 13 45 1-3 | .269 71-58 216 33 58 14 2 9 42 21 16 61 1-4 SULLIVAN, Graham.... .265 38-27 102 14 27 8 0 4 15 15 0 26 4-4 | .226 64-39 159 20 36 9 0 4 16 15 1 40 4-4 MORLEY, Jacob...... 259 38-36 135 21 35 4 1 1 17 10 0 31 12-13 | .259 38-36 135 21 35 4 1 1 17 10 0 31 12-13 TOPPING, Justin...... 242 33-26 95 11 23 5 0 1 12 10 2 20 1-2 | .270 70-52 189 22 51 13 0 1 26 21 6 30 2-4 ------MARTIN, Brooks...... 333 4-0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0-0 | .333 4-0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0-0 WORTHINGTON, Chase.. .286 7-0 7 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0-0 | .286 7-0 7 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0-0 PICCIRILLI, George.. .268 16-12 41 7 11 0 0 0 7 7 1 8 1-1 | .268 16-12 41 7 11 0 0 0 7 7 1 8 1-1 GOODALE, Kyle...... 222 11-3 9 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 3 0-0 | .222 11-3 9 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 3 0-0 MILLER, Colin...... 212 26-6 33 2 7 1 0 0 2 2 0 8 2-2 | .222 38-9 54 4 12 1 0 0 2 4 0 14 2-3 MYERS, Steele...... 161 20-15 56 2 9 1 1 0 4 1 0 24 0-0 | .161 20-15 56 2 9 1 1 0 4 1 0 24 0-0 LOTTMAN, David...... 143 5-2 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 2-2 | .179 53-7 39 16 7 1 0 0 1 6 0 18 4-4 DEVINE, Michael...... 071 11-1 14 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 6 0-0 | .071 23-5 14 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 6 0-0 PEED, Jeremy...... 000 6-0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0-0 | .000 6-0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0-0 EDWARDS, Matt...... 000 1-0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0-0 | .143 42-2 14 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 0-0 BROWN, Tyler...... 000 5-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 | .000 5-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 FLAHERTY, Collin.... .000 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0-0 | .000 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0-0

Totals...... 292 40-40 1435 250 419 75 6 41 230 138 36 345 47-63 Opponents...... 316 40-40 1424 316 450 102 14 34 280 138 61 297 50-71

(All games Sorted by Earned run avg)

Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO

SMINK, Travis...... 3.00 5-2 12 8 1 0/0 0 63.0 64 28 21 21 54 | 3.87 14-8 54 22 2 0/0 9 183.2 193 96 79 65 131 HENDERSON, Chris.... 4.48 3-5 13 9 1 0/0 0 64.1 68 48 32 14 57 | 3.91 16-13 57 34 4 1/1 0 232.1 243 135 101 46 193 ------FLORA, Lefty...... 0.00 0-0 1 0 0 0/0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 | 8.64 0-2 8 2 0 0/0 0 16.2 28 18 16 12 14 PHELPS, John...... 4.60 1-0 4 4 0 0/0 0 15.2 15 9 8 9 9 | 5.48 2-1 21 11 0 0/1 1 69.0 82 53 42 27 34 DEAL, Andrew...... 5.55 0-0 13 1 0 0/0 0 24.1 23 16 15 10 22 | 5.55 0-0 13 1 0 0/0 0 24.1 23 16 15 10 22 BROWN, Jeremy...... 6.65 1-5 8 5 0 0/0 0 23.0 30 21 17 14 22 | 6.65 1-5 8 5 0 0/0 0 23.0 30 21 17 14 22 ROBERTS, Sam...... 6.75 1-3 14 1 0 0/0 1 20.0 25 22 15 6 20 | 5.96 2-3 17 1 0 0/0 1 22.2 25 22 15 8 22 EDWARDS, Matt...... 7.01 2-3 17 1 0 0/0 3 34.2 47 33 27 11 25 | 5.25 4-3 35 1 0 0/0 3 60.0 79 44 35 21 46 KRUITHOF, Adam...... 7.06 0-3 14 4 0 0/0 0 21.2 29 20 17 12 12 | 7.54 1-5 23 9 0 0/0 0 45.1 62 43 38 22 35 LOPEZ, Adam...... 7.77 1-0 12 2 0 0/0 0 22.0 33 24 19 11 26 | 7.77 1-0 12 2 0 0/0 0 22.0 33 24 19 11 26 DEVINE, Michael..... 8.71 0-4 13 4 0 0/0 0 31.0 51 39 30 13 30 | 8.71 0-4 13 4 0 0/0 0 31.0 51 39 30 13 30 McPHERSON, Josh..... 10.54 0-0 14 0 0 0/0 0 13.2 22 20 16 10 9 | 7.49 0-0 30 0 0 0/2 0 33.2 53 37 28 12 27 RIVERA, Karter...... 12.00 0-1 5 1 0 0/0 0 6.0 14 8 8 0 5 |12.00 0-1 5 1 0 0/0 0 6.0 14 8 8 0 5 WATTS, Alan...... 15.26 0-0 9 0 0 0/0 0 7.2 17 14 13 6 1 |15.26 0-0 9 0 0 0/0 0 7.2 17 14 13 6 1 BRUST, Tim...... 19.80 0-0 6 0 0 0/0 0 5.0 12 14 11 1 4 |19.80 0-0 6 0 0 0/0 0 5.0 12 14 11 1 4

Totals...... 6.35 14-26 40 40 2 0/0 4 352.2 450 316 249 138 297