LEXINGTON, Va. – The VMI baseball team has two home mid-week games on the docket this week, hosting Penn State University at 3 p.m. Tuesday and Holy Cross Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Gray-Minor Stadium.
The Keydets won their first five games at home this season before falling 8-7 Sunday against Binghamton University and are 6-5 overall. In the weekend series against the Bearcats, VMI hit .391 as a team and scored 33 runs in the three contests. Red-shirt sophomore
Justin Starke has been on a tear at the plate in recent games, and hit .727 against BU with four doubles and three home runs. He had an on-base percentage of .800 and a slugging percentage of 1.818 with eight RBI and six runs scored.
Ty Swaim and
Trey Morgan each had .500 averages against the Bearcats. Swaim scored five runs and Morgan had three runs and four RBI.
Cole Garrett hit .444 with an on base percentage of .571, catching all three games.
Starke leads the Southern Conference in several statistical categories, including batting average (.465), slugging percentage (1.093), runs (18), hits (20), home runs (7) and total bases (47).
Penn State is 3-7 on the year after getting swept by fifth-ranked Virginia this weekend in Charlottesville. This is the first meeting between the two teams.
Holy Cross is 1-10 on the year after dropping three games at North Carolina A&T this weekend. VMI and Holy Cross are 1-1 all time.
The Keydets wrap up the eight-game homestand this weekend with a three-game series with Lehigh.
