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Baseball Edged By No. 17 Virginia, 5-4
April 16, 2006 | Baseball
April 16, 2006
Charlottesville, Va. - Dave Preziosi tallied three hits and drove in two runs for Boston College, but the Eagles fell short, 5-4, against No. 17 Virginia in Charlottesville.
Down 5-3 in the top of the ninth, Preziosi drove in Johnny Ayers to cut the deficit to one, but Casey Lambert struck out the side for UVA, dropping the Eagles to 18-17-1 and 4-13 in the ACC.
BC started the scoring in the second when Jett Ruiz doubled and later scored on an error.
After the Cavaliers tied the score in the bottom of the inning, the Eagles jumped ahead 2-1 when Ruiz drove home Preziosi who had reached on one of his three hits.
UVA answered in the fourth with RBI's by Brandon Guyer and Tom Hagen, and eventually took a 4-2 lead on a solo blast by Sean Doolittle.
Jared McGuire would triple to lead off the seventh for BC, and be driven in by a Preziosi groundout to cut the lead to 4-3.
UVA's Patrick Wingfield hit an RBI double in the eighth to provide what proved to be the game-winner as the Eagles scraped together a run in the ninth, but were unable to tie the game.
Dan Houston took the loss, firing 5.2 innings, surrendering only three earned runs on seven hits.
The Eagles finish the series with UVA at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
