Spider Baseball Wins Eighth-Straight Game

Tuesday, March 11

Richmond, VA

1:30 PM

University of Richmond

15-2

Longwood

4-12

Longwood

Richmond

Angel Santiago-Cruz takes the mound for his collegiate debut for Spider Baseball

03/11/2025 | Baseball

Box Score

RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond baseball team defeated Longwood 12-2 in seven innings Tuesday at Pitt Field for the program's eighth-straight victory of the season.

With the win, the Spiders are now 15-2 on the season heading into Atlantic 10 Conference action this weekend. UR will host St. Bonaventure to open league play at Pitt Field with first pitch set for 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 14.

Four Spider pitchers made quick work of the Lancers. Gerry Peacock made his longest start of the season, allowing one unearned run, a walk over three and a third of an inning with three strikeouts. Tyler Rigot got the win throwing one and two-thirds, allowing one hit and striking out four. Angel Santiago-Cruz made his collegiate debut, throwing a scoreless inning with a strikeout. Kellan Heney tossed the seventh, allowing one run on one hit.

Trevor Dosenbach got the Spiders scoring going in the second inning with a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded. Jordan Jaffe drew a bases loaded walk to force in a second run. Jack Arcamone launched a massive home run into the parking lot in right field for a grand slam and take a 6-0 over Longwood. The round-tripper was his fourth of the season and extended his hitting streak to 12 games.

In the fourth inning, the Spiders combined three hits and a hit batter to tack on four more runs for a 10-1 lead. DJ Pacheco brought in Jaffe before scoring on Michael Elko's three-run home run to right field.

Richmond added two more runs in the sixth as Brady O'Brien and Cole Palmeri both had RBI base hits to center field.

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St. Bonaventure

W, 12-0

Mar 14 (Fri)

1:30 PM

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Rigot, Tyler (1-0)

L: GUNTER, Justin (1-3)

Longwood

Batting:

2B: URBANIAK, Mikey 1 ; GIBBS, Casey 1

RBI: NELSON, James 1 ; GIBBS, Casey 1

SF: NELSON, James 1

Base Running:

RUNS: KEELS, Tre 1 ; WEBB, Myles 1

SB: KEELS, Tre 1

HBP: WEBB, Myles 1

PO: GIBBS, Casey 1

Richmond

Batting:

2B: Jaffe, Jordan 1 ; Pacheco, D.J. 1 ; Larson, Connor 1

HR: Arcamone, Jack 1 ; Elko, Michael 1

RBI: Jaffe, Jordan 1 ; Arcamone, Jack 4 ; O'Brien, Brady 1 ; Pacheco, D.J. 1 ; Elko, Michael 3 ; Palmeri, Cole 1 ; Dosenbach, Trevor 1

SF: Dosenbach, Trevor 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Whitley, Aaron 1 ; Jaffe, Jordan 3 ; Arcamone, Jack 1 ; O'Brien, Brady 2 ; Pacheco, D.J. 1 ; Elko, Michael 2 ; Larson, Connor 1 ; O'Keefe, Aidan 1