No. 2 Cavaliers dropped by No. 7 Beavers in Round Rock opener, 7-2

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

In the opening game of the Round Rock Classic, the No. 2 Virginia baseball team fell in a 7-2 contest to No. 7 Oregon State on Friday at Dell Diamond.

Virginia (2-2) plated the first two runs of the game on a Chris Arroyo RBI single in the third inning before Oregon State scored the final seven runs to claim victory.

Arroyo and Henry Godbout each tallied a pair of hits on the evening, tying the duo for the team lead with two multi-hit games each in the early going of the season.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Jay Woolfolk got the start on the mound for UVA and worked around a two-out single and a walk to strikeout the side in the top of the first.

In the second, Woolfolk got out of a bases loaded jam with a strikeout of Oregon State’s Avia Arquette to keep the game scoreless.

To open the home half of the third, James Nunnellee worked a leadoff walk and moved into scoring position when Eric Becker was hit by a pitch. The pair were brought in two batters later when Arroyo muscled a single through the left side to give Virginia the initial lead.

Oregon State (5-0) answered in the top of the fourth when a bases-loaded walk scored Tyce Peterson before a passed ball plated Easton Talt to even the game at two.

The Beavers took the lead for good on an AJ Singer two-run single down the right-field line in the top of the top fifth. Oregon State added a run one batter later on an infield single to make it a 5-2 contest.

Oregon State tacked on the final two runs of the game in the eighth with an RBI single and a sacrifice fly for the 7-2 final.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

• Becker pushed this on-base streak to 34 games in the third inning when he was hit by a pitch.
• Wes Arrington made his Virginia debut on Friday allowing two runs in 1.2 innings pitched.
• Jackson Sirois made his collegiate debut in the eighth inning as a pinch hitter.
• Charlie Oschell tossed a career-long 1.2 innings in relief to finish the game and tallied a career-high three strikeouts.

UP NEXT

Virginia continues play at the Round Rock Classic on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET against Minnesota. Righthander Bryson Moore is slated to pitch for the Cavaliers against the Gophers’ righty Kyle Remington.