LEXINGTON, Va. – The VMI baseball team has two-mid week games this week, Tuesday at #19^th-ranked Virginia at 3 p.m. and Wednesday at home against Richmond at 5 p.m.  

Red-shirt junior shortstop Zac Morris was named the Southern Conference's Offensive Baseball Player of the Week this week. He had a huge week in VMI's five games, as the Keydets went 4-1. Morris totaled 12 hits in the Keydets' four-game series sweep against Holy Cross with a five-hit game and a four-hit game. For the week Morris hit .565 with seven runs, eight RBI, two doubles, a triple, a homer and five stolen bases.

Last Time:
*The Keydets swept Holy Cross this weekend in a four-game series. The four-game series sweep is the first for the program since records were kept prior to the 1951 season. The Keydets swept Lafayette College in a three-game set last season on Gray-Minor Feb. 25-27. VMI is now 5-3 on the year.
*Cole Garrett, Brett Cook and Trey Morgan each hit .538 in the four games against the Crusaders. Cook had three doubles, a home run, five stolen bases, seven runs scored and eight RBI while Morgan boasted a .647 on base percentage with three walks. Justin Starke belted a pair of home runs and had a .938 slugging percentage for the series.    

About the Cavaliers:
Virginia, ranked #19 this week by D1Baseball, has started the season 7-0. The Cavaliers swept Columbia this weekend in Charlottesville, allowing just five runs in the three games. UVa is hitting .375 as a team with a 2.07 team ERA.
Jake Gelof has been a run producer thus far for Virginia, with a .429 average, nine runs, 14 RBI, four doubles, three home runs and an .893 slugging percentage.

About the Spiders:
Richmond started the season off 0-5 but swept a doubleheader Sunday against Yale 11-7 and 16-6. Jake Elbeery leads the team with a .423 batting average, while Alden Mathes has two home runs, a team-best eight runs scored and a .640 slugging percentage.