From www.ramblinwreck.com:
ATLANTA - Jay Dantzler, Brad Feltes and Jason Haniger all hit home runs
to lead No. 19 Georgia Tech (11-1, 2-0 ACC) to a 6-4 win over Virginia
Tech (7-5, 0-2 ACC) Saturday afternoon at Russ Chandler Stadium.
Dantzler led Georgia Tech with two hits in the game. He also scored
twice. Haniger and Derek Dietrich drove in two runs apiece.
Yellow Jacket starting pitcher Eddie Burns (2-0) yielded eight hits in
5.2 innings of work, but held the Hokies to just one run while striking
out eight to pick up his second victory of the season.
A first inning home run by Ty Hohman staked Virginia Tech to an early
1-0 lead, but Haniger hit his second home run of the season, a two-run
shot, in the second inning to give Georgia Tech a 2-1 edge.
The Jackets added two more runs in the third inning on a two-run single
by Dietrich and extended their lead to 6-1 with solo home runs from
Dantzler and Feltes in the bottom of the fifth.
The Hokies narrowed Georgia Tech's lead to three in the seventh inning
when Anthony Sosnoskie hit a two-run home run over the right field wall
to make the score 6-3.
Virginia Tech threatened again in the top of the eighth inning when the
first two batters reached base on walks, but Yellow Jacket reliever Brad
Rulon struck out Matt Blow and Tony Balisteri before forcing Hohman to
hit into a bases-loaded fielders choice to end the threat.
The Hokies picked up their final run in the top of the ninth when Sean
O'Brien reached on a leadoff single, moved to second on a wild pitch,
advanced to third on a groundout by Steve Bumbry, and scored on Jose
Cueto's two-out infield single. Yellow Jacket closer Chris Hicks then
struck out Matt Hacker to earn his fourth save of the season.
Score by Innings R H E
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Virginia Tech....... 100 000 201 - 4 11 1
Georgia Tech........ 022 020 00X - 6 7 0
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E - McDermott, S(1). DP - Va. Tech 2. LOB - Va. Tech 12; Georgia Tech 6.
2B- Long, P.(1). HR - Hohman, T(1); Sosnoskie, A(2); Dantzler, J.(2);
Feltes,B.(1); Haniger, J.(2). HBP - Wates, A. SH - Blackmon, C.(1). SB -
O'Brien, S(4); Hacker, M(1); Blackmon, C.(4); Haniger, J.(1); Long,
P.(1). CS -Blackmon, C. 2(3).
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