May 16, 2001
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,MANTEO, NC.-- The Old Dominion University Baseball Monarchs lostthe elimination game of the 2001 CAA Tournament to UNC Wilmington, 9-5Wednesday afternoon ending the season with a 19-37 record. Junior thirdbaseman JeffEure (Pillow, PA.) led the Monarchs with two hits and two runs batted in.
Eure put Old Dominion up in the first with a solo homerun. With UNCWleading 5-1, Ross Robertson (Chesapeake, Va.) singled up the middle to scoreDavid Vilardi (Fishkill, NY.) to make it 5-2.
Eure then knocked in Allen Strick (Glen Burnie, Md.) in the Monarchsthree-run seventh. Matt Moye (Beaver Falls, Pa.) knocked in a run in the seventhand scored on a wild pitch.
UNCW was led by David Ange with three RBI's. Justin Wishon, Magnus Pilegard,Jamie Hemmingway and David McKenna each had two hits on the day for theSeahawks. Starting pitcher Brian Whitaker won his tenth game of the season,scattering ten hits and fanning seven. Reliever Matt McDonnell picked up thesave with three scoreless innings and four strikeouts. UNCW will have Thursdayoff and play on Friday at 7 p.m.
Allen Strick ended up as the Monarchs top hitter with a .296 average, whileMatt Moye was second at .289. Jeff Eure led the Monarchs in homers with sevenand rbi's with 40.
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UNCW 050 030 100 -9-11-0
ODU 100 100 300 -5-10-1
UNCW Battery: Whitaker, McDonnell(7) and Pilegard,ODU Battery: Weaver, Evans (6) and Silver, Oehler (9).
WP: Whitaker (10-3) LP:Weaver (3-9) Save: McDonnell
HR:-ODU -Eure (7)