TYSONS, Va. – VCU scored nine unanswered runs, including six in the first two innings, and got a stellar performance from starter Christian Gordon to beat No. 4 Richmond 13-7. The win at Capital One Park Friday put second-seeded VCU in the Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship final.

Gordon (7-2) went seven innings, allowing six hits and one run with six strikeouts. His only blemish was a Jake Topolski sacrifice fly that scored Jack Arcamone in the seventh.

Before that, the VCU bats were spicy, with two home runs in the first inning, a two run shot by Chris McHugh that plated Casey Kleinman and a solo shot by Brandon Eike. An RBI single by Eli Weisner and an error scored three more in the second.
A pair of solo homers by Eike and Wesiner in the fourth broke the game open and an RBI single by Benzin made the lead 9-0 before Topolski put the Spiders on the board. VCU had five different players collect multi-hit games.

The Rams (36-21) added four more runs that seemed to be meaningless, but a ninth-inning rally by Richmond put the lead in serious jeopardy. Aidan O’Keefe’s RBI single to center started the rally, and bases-loaded walk to Jackson Kraemer and singles by Jason Shockley and Jack Arcamone pushed the rally to six runs. But VCU closed it down after Kraemer and Shockley crossed on Arcamone’s two-RBI single.

Arcamone led the Spiders with four hits. Logan Ymker (1-3) took the loss for the Spiders (26-31), allowing three run on four hits.