April 1, 2008
NORFOLK, VA-- The Norfolk Tides (Baltimore Orioles AAA Affiliate )defeated Old Dominion, 4-1 Tuesday evening at Harbor Park in the annual Bank of the Commonwealth ScholarshipBaseball game.
ODU's lone run came from freshman outfielder Chris Baker (Chesapeake, Va.) who hit an opposite field solo homerun to left in the fourthinning off Tides hurler Andy Mitchell.
The Tides scored in the first inning on a groundout RBI by Luis Terrero. Terrero and Mike Costanzo walked and scored on Chris Roberson's doublein the fourth to give Norfolk a 3-1 lead. Mike McCoy scored on an errorin the fifth for the fourth and final Tides run.
A crowd of 1,473 were in attendance. Proceeds from the game benefitthe ODU Intercollegiate Foundation for Baseball.
ODU returns to the Bud on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. when they hostthe Keydets of VMI.
ODU-NORFOLK TIDES BANK OF THE COMMONWEALTH
SCHOLARSHIP GAME April 1, 2008 Tides 4, ODU 1
OLD DOMINION ab r h rbi
Most cf 3 0 1 0
Keenan 2b 1 0 0 0
Baker rf 2 1 1 1
Cipolla 1b 3 0 1 0
Shawler lf 2 0 0 0
Hernandez c 1 0 0 0
Velleggia c 1 0 0 0
McAloose 3b 2 0 0 0
Malbon dh 3 0 0 0
Buss ss 2 0 0 0
Hall rf/2b 2 0 0 0
Totals 22 1 3 1
ODU PITCHERS ip h r er bb so
Leicester 2 1 1 0 1 0
McCrory 1 0 0 0 0 0
Wagner(odu) (L)1 2 2 2 2 0
Walls (ODU) 1 0 1 0 0 1
Watkins (ODU) 1 1 0 0 1 1
NORFOLK TIDES ab r h rbi
Redman lf 2 1 1 0
Torres 2b 4 0 0 0
Salazar 1b 2 0 0 0
Terrero rf 2 1 0 1
Costanzo 3b 1 1 1 0
Robertson cf 3 0 1 2
Heintz c 2 0 1 0
Stern DH 2 0 0 0
McCoy SS 2 0 0 0
Santos C 1 1 0 0
Brown ss 1 0 0 0
Totals 22 4 4 3
Score by innings
ODU 000 100 0 1-3-2
Tides 100 210 x 4-4-1
E-Keenan, McCoy, Most
LOB- Tides (7), ODU (4)
2b-Roberson ;HR-Baker (ODU); SB-Terrero, Constanzo, Most
Wild pitch- Walls; HBP- Corsner by Novoa
Pitching I p h r er bb so
Jim Johnson 3 0 0 0 0 3
Andy Mitchell (W) 1 2 1 1 1 0
Lance Cormier 1 0 0 0 0 1
Roberto Novoa 1 0 0 0 0 0
Umpires: HP-Robert Turner, 1b- Jim Stuck; 3b- Tony Dilbeck
ATT: 1473