Seventh Inning Homer from Lee Difference Maker in Win

Tuesday, March 21

Radford, Va.

4 p.m.

James Madison University

13-9

Radford

7-14

JMU

Radford

3/21/2023 7:47:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

RADFORD, Va. – With the game tied at six in the top of the seventh, graduate Jaylon Lee connected on his first James Madison home run to give the JMU the 8-6 win over Radford in non-conference baseball on Tuesday afternoon at Carter Memorial Stadium.

The Dukes move to 13-9 while the Highlanders fall to 7-14.

Freshman Ryan Ertlschweiger earned his first collegiate win behind a season-high four shutout innings of relief, striking out four while giving up two walks and two hits. Junior Joe Vogatsky worked a scoreless ninth inning for his second save of the season. Redshirt junior CJ Czerwinski started for JMU, going one and a third innings and striking out two while giving up six runs, five earned. At the plate, sophomore Fenwick Trimble led the team going 3-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored and three RBI's.

How It Happened
First Inning
Graduate Jack Cone, Trimble and redshirt senior Kyle Novak each singled to lead off the first, setting redshirt senior Trevon Dabney to get hit by a pitch to send Cone home to score. Back-to-back groundouts from freshman Mike Mancini and graduate Jaylon Lee allowed two more runs to come home for a 3-0 lead.

Radford got a run back in the home half of the inning after a two-out double knocked home Zack Whitacre who led off with his own double for a 3-1 score.

Second Inning
A fielding error and single put two on for the Dukes with one down to bring up Trimble. The Virginia Beach, Va. native then put the 1-1 pitch over the wall in dead center field for his eighth round tripper of the season and gave JMU a 6-1 lead.

The Highlanders responded by scoring five runs to tie the game. Three straight base hits to start the inning allowed one run to score, before a three-base error put a Highlander on third and two more runs across home for a 6-4 score. A triple from Whitacre followed the error to make it a one-run game and a sacrifice fly from Sully Tibbs the next at bat knotted it all at six.

Seventh Inning
Ertlschweiger kept the Highlanders at bay for the next four innings, allowing the Dukes to take retake the lead in the seventh. After Novak led the inning off with a hit by pitch, Lee would hit a towering shot with two outs for his first homer of the game and an 8-6 lead.

Game Notes

Trevon Dabney was hit by a pitch four times in the game, setting a single-game record for the program and coming one shy of tying the NCAA record.
Jaylon Lee tied his season-high for RBI's with three.
Ryan Ertlschweiger set season-highs in innings and strikeouts with four each.
Jason Schiavone threw out his 10th would be base stealer of the season, the first time a Duke has thrown out double-digit base runners since 2019.

Up Next
The Dukes go back into Sun Belt Conference play as they head to Jonesboro, Ark. For a three-game set with Arkansas State on March 24-26. The series opener is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. CT on Friday and the game will be streamed on ESPN+.