April 29, 2007

VANDERBILT SWEEPS SERIES 3-0
4/27	Vanderbilt 10 Florida 1		Recap
4/28	Vanderbilt 17 Florida 6		Recap
4/29	Vanderbilt 13 Florida 5		Box
SCORING SUMMARY			VU	UF
	1st	LaPorta reached on throwing error by p, Figueroa scored, Townsend advanced to second.	0	1
	2nd	Macias singled to center field, White scored, Giobbi advanced to third.	1	1
	1st	Feinberg singled to right field, Giobbi scored, Macias advanced to third.	2	1
	3rd	Flaherty homered (3) to right field.	3	1
	4th	LaPorta homered (17) to center field.	3	2
	4th	Feinberg doubled to right center, Giobbi scored, Feinberg advanced to third on throwing error by rf.	4	2
	4th	Alvarez singled to left field, Feinberg scored.	5	2
	4th	Flaherty singled to right field, Alvarez scored.	6	2
	4th	R. Davis singled to right field, Flaherty scored, Robin scored, White advanced to third.	8	2
	5th	LaPorta singled to center field, Townsend scored.	8	3
	5th	de la Osa reached on a fielder's choice, Macias scored, Feinberg out at second 3b to 2b.	9	3
	5th	Robin struck out and reached first on wild pitch, de la Osa scored, Flaherty advanced to third.	10	3
	5th	Hanks singled to pitcher and advanced to second on throwing error by p, Flaherty scored, Robin advanced to third.	11	3
	6th	de la Osa doubled through the left side, Macias scored.	12	3
	6th	Alvarez doubled to right center, de la Osa scored.	13	3
	7th	Leclerc singled to left center, Figueroa scored, Hicks advanced to third, Leclerc to second on throw.	13	4
	8th	Figueroa flied out to lf, Barnes scored, den Dekker advanced to third.	13	5
PITCHING SUMMARY
	W	Crowell (2-1): 6.2 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 11 K, 1 BB
	L	Bullock (2-5): 3.2 IP, 10 H, 8 R, 5 ER, 2 K, 3 BB

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NASHVILLE ­­--- Vanderbilt used a five-run fourth inning to break open a 3-2 game and ran away with a 13-5 win over Florida in front of 2,477 fans Sunday afternoon at Hawkins Field.

The win was the sixth straight for the Commodores who completed their second straight SEC series sweep. VU improved to 39-8 overall and 15-6 in SEC play while the Gators fell to 23-23 and 10-10 in conference action. The 39 wins for Vanderbilt is the second most in school history (45 in 2004), moving ahead of the 38 wins set a year ago.

Cody Crowell (2-1) scattered nine-hits over 6.2 innings of work with 11 strikeouts in his first start of the season.

"Cody was good," said Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin. "Even the runs we gave up I thought were cleaner hits in cleaner situations but he did a good job with eleven strikeouts. And on offense we scored forty runs this weekend. It was a good fit for us. It looked easy. I don't know if it was as easy as it looked but the kids made it feel that way because they swung the bat well."

David Macias, Alex Feinberg and Pedro Alvarez each had three hits to lead the 17-hit Commodore attack.

Florida took a 1-0 lead in the first when Cole Figueroa scored on a throwing error by Cody Crowell who was trying to start a double play on a slow grounder by Matt Laporta.

Vanderbilt came back with two runs in the bottom of the second to take a 2-1 lead. Jonathan White led off with a walk and moved to third on a double by Andrew Giobbi. David Macias and Alex Feinberg had RBI singles to bring both runners home.

Ryan Flaherty staked the Dores to a 3-1 lead in the third with a solo homer to right. It was his third round-tripper of the season and first since blasting the game-winner against Boston College 36 games ago.

Matt Laporta got the run back for the Gators in the top of the fourth with a solo shot to center, his 17th of the year.

The Commodores then blew the game open with five runs in the fourth. Feinberg had a RBI double with consecutive RBI singles by Pedro Alvarez and Ryan Flaherty. Ryan Davis closed the scoring out with a two-run single to make it 8-2.

LaPorta added a RBI single in the fifth to cut the lead to 8-3.

VU plated three more runs in the bottom half with Parker Hanks coming through with an infield RBI single to lead the way.

Dominic de la Osa and Alvarez closed out the scoring for the Dores with back to back RBI doubles in the sixth.

Florida added single runs in the seventh and eighth to close out the game scoring.

The 40 Vanderbilt runs in the series set a new benchmark in Commodore baseball history for most runs in a three-game SEC set.

The Commodores will have the week off to complete final exams before starting a six-game road trip beginning with a three-game series against Georgia next weekend in Athens.

Florida            100      110      110      -5         12        4
Vanderbilt      021      532      00x      -13       17        1

Bullock, Keating (4), Porter (5), Edmondson (5), Chapman (7) and Neer, Tignor. Crowell, Christiani (7), Weathers (9) and Robin, Hawkins. W- Crowell 2-1, L- Bullock 2-5. Sv- None. HR- FLA: LaPorta (17) VU: Flaherty (3)