Richmond, Va. – The University of Dayton baseball team had its three-game win streak snapped on Friday afternoon with a 7-3 loss to Richmond. Dayton is now 12-26 this season with a 4-9 record in Atlantic 10 Conference play, while Richmond improves to 21-18 overall and a 7-6 mark in conference play.

KEY MOMENT
The game was tied at 3-3 in the sixth, when Richmond's Anthony Forte opened the bottom half of the inning with a single through the right single of the infield and then advanced to second on a called balk. Vinny Capra hit a single to move Forte up to third, and then a second balk call of the inning advanced both runners 90 feet each, scoring Forte from third. Kyle Adams followed Capra with an RBI double to right center. A Richmond walk and single loaded the bases for the Spiders, who added two more runs before the end of the inning off a Kyle Schmidt sacrifice fly and Daniel Brumbaugh single up the middle.

SCORING SUMMARY
Top 1st: (Dayton 1, Richmond 0)
Connor Echols hit a double into left center field and was driven home by a Tate Hagan RBI single in the right-center gap to put the Flyers on the board first.

Bottom 2nd: (Dayton 1, Richmond 1)
Daniel Brumbaugh hit a solo home run to tie up the game at 1-1.

Top 3rd: (Dayton 3, Richmond 1)
Pat Meehan reached on an error and Brandon Smith was hit by a pitch to give Dayton a pair of baserunners early in the inning. Tate Hagan delivered his second RBI of the day with a single to right and then Takahiro Yamada hit a sacrifice fly to deep left to plate Smith.

Bottom 3rd: (Dayton 3, Richmond 3)
DJ Lee opened the bottom of the third with a double, then Vinny Capra followed with a bunt single to give Richmond runners on the corners with no outs. The next batter Kyle Adams grounded out, but that allowed Lee to score from third and advance Capra, who would go on to score the next at-bat, when Tyler Plantier singled through the right side.

Bottom 6th: (Richmond 7, Dayton 3)
Richmond broke open the game in the sixth, when Richmond's Anthony Forte opened the bottom half of the inning with a single through the right single of the infield and then advanced to second on a called balk. Vinny Capra hit a single to move Forte up to third, and then a second balk call of the inning advanced both runners 90 feet each, scoring Forte from third. Kyle Adams followed Capra with an RBI double to right center. A Richmond walk and single loaded the bases for the Spiders, who added two more runs before the end of the inning off a Kyle Schmidt sacrifice fly and Daniel Brumbaugh single up the middle.

KEY STATS

• Tate Hagan led the team with two RBIs and extended his streak of games with at least two RBIs up to four.
• Hagan was also one of two Flyers to post a multi-hit game, along with Brandon Smith, who both had two hits apiece.
• Smith, Connor Echols and Mitchell Garrity all had a double, accounting for all three of Dayton's extra base hits on Friday.
• With both players going 1-for-4 at the plate, Brantley Johnson and Garrity now have reached base streaks of 17 and 16 games, respectively.
• Johnson also has a team-best five-game hitting streak entering Saturday's game.
• Starting pitcher Tyler Jones threw 3.1 innings and allowed three runs off eight hits, while walking no batters.
• Peter Rozman was the first reliever out of the bullpen and worked wonders in leaving Spider stranded on the base paths in his first 1.1 innings on the mound, as he twice got the Flyers out of bases loaded jams in the fourth and fifth innings, but Richmond took advantage of a few hits and two called balks to score four runs in the sixth, which would all be charged to Rozman.
• RJ Wagner closed out the game with 2.2 scoreless innings on the mound.

UP NEXT
Dayton and Richmond will play game two of the three-game series tomorrow at 1 p.m. before concluding the series on Sunday at noon.