JMU Bats Erupt for 28 Runs in Win Over VMI

Tuesday, March 1

Harrisonburg, Va.

3 p.m.

James Madison University

5-3

VMI

4-4

VMI

James Madison

3/1/2022 8:24:00 PM | Baseball

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HARRISONBURG, Va. – The bats of the James Madison baseball team erupted for 28 runs to take the first of two games against VMI this season, 28-4, on Tuesday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Park.

The Dukes move to 5-3 and are winners of their last five, while the Keydets fall to an even 4-4.

Redshirt senior Liam McDonnell picked up his second win of the year, making the start for JMU and going three innings without allowing a run and striking out three. Redshirt sophomore Chase DeLauter had a career-high eight RBI's and collected four hits and scored three times, both tying career-highs. He is the first JMU player to knock in eight runs since Brett Johnson against UNC Asheville on Feb. 25, 2017.

How It Happened
The runs for JMU came early and often, scoring eight in the first inning, seven in the second, and six in the third to lead 21-0 before VMI was able to score their first run.

The Dukes scored the first inning runs on two-run home runs by redshirt junior Travis Reifsnider and redshirt sophomore Mason Dunaway, with freshman Fenwick Trimble getting a two-run double in there as well as an RBI double and single by redshirt junior Trevon Dabney and DeLauter, respectively.

In the second, the Dukes scored their first two runs on fielder's choices with the bases loaded, followed by a bases loaded walk by Dabney. DeLauter then hit his first career grand slam to cap off the seven-run inning.

JMU then scored six runs on a pair of two-run doubles by DeLauter and Reifsnider, with Dabney chipping in with a bases loaded hit by pitch and redshirt sophomore Kyle Novak drawing a bases loaded walk.

After the Keydets scored three runs in the fourth, the Dukes scored three runs themselves in the fourth to make it a 24-3 game. It was the fourth straight inning the Dukes scored. VMI scored once more in the sixth, but JMU scored two in the bottom half of the inning to make it 26-4.

Freshman Bryce Suters capped off the offensive barrage with a two-run double off the base of the center field wall to give JMU the 28-4 win.

Game Notes

Trevon Dabney is the first JMU player to score five runs in a game since Conner Brown vs. Georgia State on April 20, 2013.
JMU has scored 73 runs in their last five games. It is the most runs scored by the program in a five-game span since Feb. 19-26, 2011 when they scored 82 runs in five games.
It is the first 20-run game at home since a 20-6 win vs. NJIT on March 17, 2017 and the first 20-run game overall since JMU took down Tennessee 21-1 on March 7, 2018.
This is the ninth game in the series history with VMI that the Dukes have scored 20 or more runs.
The 28 runs are the most runs scored by the Dukes since scoring 37 in the 2011 season opener against Bucknell.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: McDonnell, Liam (2-0)

L: Tyler Kaltreider (0-2)

VMI

Batting:

2B: Justin Starke 1

RBI: Will Knight 1 ; Cole Garrett 1 ; Ty Swaim 1 ; Jacob Farrar 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Justin Starke 1 ; Will Knight 1 ; Brett Cook 1 ; Cole Jenkins 1

SB: Justin Starke 2

HBP: Reeves Whitmore 1

James Madison

Batting:

2B: Dabney, Trevon 1 ; DeLauter, Chase 1 ; Suters, Bryce 1 ; Trimble, Fenwick 1 ; Reifsnider, Travis 1

HR: DeLauter, Chase 1 ; Reifsnider, Travis 1 ; Dunaway, Mason 1

RBI: Dabney, Trevon 3 ; DeLauter, Chase 8 ; Suters, Bryce 2 ; Trimble, Fenwick 3 ; Novak, Kyle 2 ; Reifsnider, Travis 4 ; Dunaway, Mason 3 ; Calabrese, Coleman 1 ; Bell, Carson 1 ; Zona, Nick 1

SF: Novak, Kyle 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Dabney, Trevon 5 ; Buster, Jalen 1 ; DeLauter, Chase 3 ; Trimble, Fenwick 3 ; Novak, Kyle 1 ; Reifsnider, Travis 2 ; Schiavone, Jason 1 ; Steinberg, Jacob 3 ; Dunaway, Mason 3 ; Calabrese, Coleman 1 ; Bell, Carson 2 ; Zona, Nick 3