LEXINGTON, Va. – Cade Hunter went 5-5 with a double, two home runs, four runs and five RBI as Virginia Tech topped the VMI baseball team 13-4 Tuesday night in non-conference action from Gray-Minor Field.
Each team had 15 hits but the Keydets left 17 runners on base and the Hokies took advantage of 11 walks on the night.
Virginia Tech scored four runs in the first frame, two coming off a Hunter home run. Hunter homered again as part of a three-run third inning to give the visitors a 7-1 lead. The
Keydets scored one in the first and two more in the third but left five runners on in the two innings combined. The Hokies added two more runs in the sixth and four in the ninth.
Three Keydets had three hits on the evening, red-shirt junior
Will Knight and sophomores
Brett Cook and
Ty Swaim. Cook doubled and scored twice, while
Reeves Whitmore had a two run single and drew two walks.
Cole Jenkins had a pair of hits,
Cole Garrett had two walks and
Bryce Demory took advantage of a pinch-hitting opportunity with an opposite field hit.
Conor Hartigan also homered for Virginia Tech (15-6). Head coach John Szefc earned his 100
th win in his five seasons as head mentor of the Hokie program.
VMI (8-16) travels to Radford University Wednesday for another non-conference game at 4 p.m.
