DUKES OWN NATION'S LONGEST BASEBALL WIN STREAK AT 16

Sunday, March 19

Harrisonburg, Va.

TBA

James Madison University

16-4, 0

Delaware

9-6, 0

Delaware

James Madison

3/19/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

HARRISONBURG, Va., March 19, 2006 – Sophomore right-hander Ryan Reid (Portland, Maine/Deering) struck out 12 and sophomore center fielder Kellen Kulbacki (Hershey, Pa./Hershey) went 4-for-5 and hit his 11^th homer of the season to highlight 30^th-ranked James Madison's 10-8 Colonial Athletic Association baseball win against Delaware Sunday afternoon at Long Field/Mauck Stadium.

The three-game series sweep gives the Dukes the nation's longest Division I win streak with their 16^th straight victory. JMU improved to 16-4 overall while matching their best league start since 1995 when they were also 6-0.

Delaware fell to 9-6 overall and to 0-3 in the CAA.

Reid improved to 4-1 and reached double-figure strikeouts for a third consecutive start. He limited the Blue Hens to two hits through the first five innings. He finished with seven frames of work, yielding three earned runs on five hits and three walks. Reid struck out 12 against Wagner on March 5 and 13 at William and Mary on March 12.

While Reid was mowing down the Hens, his teammates built a 7-0 lead after five innings.

Senior designated hitter Matt Sluder (Mechanicsville, Va./Lee-Davis) doubled with one out in the second and completed the circuit on a single by sophomore left fielder Brett Sellers (Greencastle, Pa./Greencastle-Antrim) to being the day's scoring.

Junior shortstop Davis Stoneburner (Richmond, Va./Mills Godwin) popped his sixth homer of the year, a solo shot to center, to score the first of three runs in the third. Kulbacki and senior second baseman Michael Cowgill (Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay) followed with back-to-back singles. Kulbacki came around to score when the Delaware first baseman committed two errors on a grounder by redshirt junior right fielder Mitchell Moses (Richmond, Va./Mills Godwin). A sacrifice fly by Sluder plated Cowgill for a 4-0 JMU lead.

Kulbacki launched his third homer of the series with a two-run blast in the fifth. Sellers, who was 3-for-3, singled in another run to make it 7-0 Dukes.

Sluder, Sellers and Kulbacki each drove in what proved to be important tack-on runs once Delaware's offense started to churn.

Junior first baseman Ryan Joblonski (Cheektowaga, N.Y./Monroe C.C.) connected for