Score: VCU 9, Fordham 0
Location: Richmond, Va. (The Diamond)
Records: VCU 14-29 (7-14 A-10), Fordham 21-24 (11-10 A-10)
 
THE SHORT STORY: VCU baseball shut Fordham down in every phase of the game for a loud answer to yesterday's series-evening loss. VCU allowed just three hits in its third shutout of the season and tallied nine runs on 11 hits
 
LEADING OFF:

• Cooper Campbell made his second collegiate start and second start of the week, going 3.1 one-hit innings of work and tying his career high with five strikeouts
• First in relief, Elijah Coston picked up his second collegiate win in a 2.2 inning showing, allowing just one hit
• Zachary Peters earned his fourth save of the season with a two-strikeout, three-inning performance
• With a single in the second inning, Trent Adelman extended his reached-base streak to 22 games, the longest by a Ram this season
• Adelman was hit by his 18^th pitch this season, tying for ninth in a single season in program history
• Jacob Lee hit his 12^th home run of the year, launching onto the program single-season leaderboard tied at No. 8
• Lee homered in three consecutive games for the second time and drove in his 50^th run of the year
• Casey Kleinman had three hits in the game and Nick Flores notched a pair
• VCU compiled double-digit hits for the 10^th time this season

 
HOW IT HAPPENED:

• Campbell worked out of a jam to open his first weekend start, allowing the first two baserunners and then retiring the next three by strikeout for a scoreless first
• After three scoreless frames worked by Campbell, VCU got on the board first with a Lee home run for the third consecutive game, going up 3-0
• Doubling the lead in the next inning, Spencer Sullivan dropped a high-fly ball into left field for a run-scoring double before Kleinman and Lee tallied back-to-back RBI singles
• Coston faced the minimum in the fifth and allowed just one baserunner in the sixth to conclude his portion of the three-hit bid
• Making the most of their outs, VCU scored a pair in the sixth frame on a Kleinman sacrifice fly and Jimenez RBI groundout, taking an 8-0 lead
• Jimenez and Kleinman added the final run for VCU on a perfectly executed double steal play for the 9-0 score
• Closing the door on VCU's series victory, the Rams turned their third double play and Peters faced the minimum in the final frame

 
UP NEXT:
VCU will return to the road for the week, kicking off a four-game road trip in Charlottesville, Va., against Virginia on Tuesday, April 29, before continuing Atlantic 10 play at St. Bonaventure on Friday-Sunday, May 2-4.