ASHLAND, Va. – Junior Hunter Cole (Norfolk, Va./Granby) had three hits and four runs while Junior Myles Webb (Norfolk, Va./Granby) added three runs and four RBI as the Randolph-Macon baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Pitt-Bradford with a 12-2 win on Sunday afternoon.

The Basics

Score: Randolph-Macon 12, Pitt-Bradford 2

Site/Venue: Ashland, Va./Hugh Stephens Field at Estes Park

Records: R-MC 3-0, UPB 1-3

How It Happened

• The Yellow Jackets took early control with five runs in the bottom of the first. Senior Ethan Iannuzzi (Chesterfield, Va./Cosby), Cole and Webb all drew one-out walks before sophomore Lincoln Lubsen (Williamsburg, Va./Walsingham Academy) delivered a two-run single to plate Iannuzzi and Cole. Senior Carter Johnson (Southampton, Va./Southampton) had a bunt single and Webb scored when the throw to first was wild to make it 3-0. Sophomore Aaron Lautenschlager (Purcellville, Va./Loudoun Valley) added a two-run base hit to push the lead to 5-0.
• R-MC added a run in the second as Cole dropped in a leadoff double and came home on a sacrifice fly by Johnson to make it 6-0.
• The Panthers plated a run in the third before the Yellow Jackets answered in the fourth. Cole ripped a double to right and scored on a base hit by Webb. Webb would steal second, go to third on a wild pitch and come home on a sacrifice fly by Lubsen as R-MC took an 8-1 advantage.
• Senior Cam Furman (Midlothian, Va./Midlothian) allowed three hits and one run in 5.0 innings with one walk and four strikeouts to record the victory.
• UPB got a second run in the sixth before the Yellow Jackets got it back in the seventh. Senior Logan Smith (Midlothian, Va./Midlothian) had a leadoff walk, went to third on a double by Johnson and scored on a sacrifice fly by junior Matt Myers (Hampstead, Md./Manchester Valley) to make it 9-2.
• Webb added a three-run homer in the eighth, his first of the season, to make the final 12-2.

By The Numbers

• Cole went 3 for 4 with two doubles, a walk and four runs.
• Webb went 2 for 4 with one walk, three runs and four RBI. He had multiple hits in each of the three games of the series.
• Lubsen went 1 for 1 with a walk, a run and three RBI.
• Johnson went 3 for 3 with a double, a run and one RBI.
• Freshman Eli Brooks (Glen Allen, Va./Glen Allen) had a pinch-hit single in the eighth in his first collegiate at-bat.
• The Yellow Jackets were flashing the leather. Johnson had a diving catch at third in the fourth and doubled up the runner on second for a double play. Iannuzzi had a diving catch in left in the fifth with a runner on. Johnson had another diving catch in the sixth.

Up Next

R-MC is scheduled to host Alvernia in a noon doubleheader on Saturday, Feb. 25 on Hugh Stephens Field at Estes Park.