How it Happened
No. 5 Richmond ended the season for No. 7 Rhode Island, knocking off the Rams 13-3 in an elimination game at the Atlantic 10 Championship Wednesday night.

The Spiders (27-27) used a pair of three-run rallies to establish a lead before breaking the game open late. Richmond got three unearned runs in the bottom of the third, with the key hit being a two-run, inside-the-park home run by Alden Mathes.

Rhode Island (23-29) responded right away with three runs of its own in the top of the fourth. Eric Genther's double drove in Billy Butler with URI's first run before Mark Coley hit a two-run homer to left center that tied the game.

Johnny Hipsman gave Richmond the lead again in the bottom of the fifth with a solo home run that left the park completely. An inning later, the Spiders padded the lead with three more runs, all of which came after the first two batters were retired. Jordan Jaffe had an RBI single and Christian Beal added a two-run single to make the score 7-3.

Richmond added six insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to ice the game. The final 13 Rhode Island batters were retired in order, as URI did not get a base runner after the top of the fifth until Coley's single with two down in the ninth.

Inside the Box Score

• Redshirt senior Mark Coley homered, singled, walked and drove in two runs. 
• Sophomore Eric Genther doubled, drove in one run and scored once.
• Redshirt senior Billy Butler doubled and scored one run.
• Freshman Michael Anderson was hit by a pitch for the 16th time this season, the fifth most in one year in program history.
• Redshirt junior Alex Ramirez had a single.
• Rhode Island hit a program record 78 home runs this season.