DIAMOND DUKES WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT, BEAT LIBERTY 10-5

Wednesday, March 1

Harrisonburg, Va.

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James Madison University

4-4

Liberty

7-3

Liberty

James Madison

3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

HARRISONBURG, Va., March 1, 2006 – Senior first baseman Nate Schill (Audubon, N.J./Audubon) went 4-for-5 and drove in two late insurance runs to led James Madison to a 10-5 victory against Liberty in non-conference college baseball Wednesday afternoon at Long Field/Mauck Stadium.

The Dukes won their fourth straight to even their record at 4-4. The Flames had their five-game win streak snapped and slipped to 7-3.

Junior left-hander Jacob Cook (Mechanicsville, Va./Lee-Davis) earned the mound victory with 6 1/3 innings. After yielding two runs on a hit and a pair of walks in the first inning, Cook settled in to scatter four hits and two runs over the final 5 2/3. He walked three and fanned four.

Senior left fielder Matt Bristow (Richmond, Va./Mills Godwin) added three hits, including a pair of doubles, to the Dukes' 14-hit attack. His double to center field in the second inning pushed the Dukes to a 3-2 lead.

Junior shortstop Patrick Gaillard (Taylors, S.C./Eastside) tied the score with a solo homer in the top of the third, his second homer of the season. He would be the only Flame to collect more than one hit in the contest, going 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and one RBI.

The score remained tied until the Dukes broke loose with a three-run sixth. Junior shortstop Davis Stoneburner (Richmond, Va./Mills Godwin) snapped the deadlock with a sacrifice fly to right field that allowed redshirt sophomore third baseman Joe Lake (Elkridge, Md./Long Reach) to trot in from third. Lake had walked prior to a Bristow single and both would advance a base on one of four balks called against the LU pitching staff.

Sophomore center fielder Kellen Kulbacki (Hershey, Pa./Hershey), the Colonial Athletic Association player of the week, followed with an RBI single to center for a 5-3 JMU lead. He scored when senior second baseman Michael Cowgill (Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay) doubled to left.

The Flames got two runs back in their next at bat, the first on a single to right by senior third baseman Chad Miller (Wheat Ridge, Co./Arapahoe), who ended the play on third after a two-base fielding error. Miller scored when senior Michael Just (Woodcliff, N.J./St. Joseph) doubled.

The Dukes responded in the bottom of the sixth with a double by Schill, Lake's first career triple, and Bristow's second double of the afternoon, which nearly cleared the fence in left. Schill's two RBIs came on a single just over the second baseman in the eighth.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Cook, Jacob (1-1)

L: Beakler, Dane (0-1)

Liberty

Batting:

2B: Just, Michael 1 ; Keller, P.K. 1 ; Bennion, Derek 1

HR: Gaillard, Patrick 1

RBI: Gaillard, Patrick 1 ; Miller, Chad 1 ; Just, Michael 1 ; Keller, P.K. 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Gaillard, Patrick 2 ; Miller, Chad 2 ; Bennion, Derek 1

SB: Miller, Chad 1

James Madison

Batting:

2B: Cowgill, Michael 1 ; Schill, Nate 1 ; Bristow, Matt 2

3B: Lake, Joe 1

RBI: Stoneburner, Davis 1 ; Kulbacki, Kellen 1 ; Cowgill, Michael 1 ; Schill, Nate 2 ; Lake, Joe 1 ; Bristow, Matt 3

SF: Stoneburner, Davis 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Kulbacki, Kellen 1 ; Cowgill, Michael 1 ; Moses, Mitchell 1 ; Townsend, Matt 1 ; Bujakowski, Lee 1 ; Schill, Nate 2 ; Lake, Joe 2 ; Bristow, Matt 1