Avery started and worked four innings before being removed after the game was halted due to rain on Friday night. He held the Yellow Jackets to one run on four hits and a walk while striking out six.
Kamrath (7-3), the scheduled Sunday starter, took over when the game resumed on Saturday. He worked four innings and allowed one run on six hits and fanned five.
Lambert worked a scoreless ninth inning to pick up his team-leading ninth save of the year.
The Yellow Jackets, who rank second in the nation in scoring at 10.8 runs per game, managed just two runs on 10 hits and left nine runners on base.
Tech starter Lee Hyde (5-2) had a streak of 22 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run snapped and was charged with the loss. The left-hander allowed four runs on five hits in 4.1 innings. Reliever Jared Hyatt worked 3.2 shutout innings.
The Yellow Jackets took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning when Mike Trapani doubled and scored on a two-out balk.
Virginia answered with two runs in the bottom of the third inning, scoring twice on a wild play to take a 2-1 lead. With two outs and Tim Henry on second base, Matt Street laced an RBI single to right field. Street moved up to second base on right fielder Jeff Kindel’s throw home and then scored when catcher Andy Hawranick’s throw sailed into the outfield and center fielder Danny Payne slipped on the wet grass when trying to retrieve the errant throw.
When the game restarted on Saturday afternoon, Hyde once again took the mound and the Cavaliers struck for a run on an RBI single from Scott Headd to extend the lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning. An RBI single from Sean Doolittle made the score 4-1 in the fifth inning.
The score remained 4-1 until Tech broke through in the eighth inning. Three straight two-out singles from Jeremy Slayden, Matt Wieters and Jeff Kindel led to a run and cut the lead to 4-2. The Yellow Jackets had a chance to do more damage, but Kamrath struck out Andy Hawranick to end the inning, and Lambert pitched a scoreless ninth to end the game.
Kindel led the Yellow Jackets with three hits, while Slayden and Wieters had two hits each. Georgia Tech and Virginia will continue the series on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.
2005 GEORGIA TECH BASEBALL
#4 Georgia Tech at Virginia
April 22-23, 2005 at Charlottesville, Va. (Davenport Field)
Georgia Tech 2 (30-8,16-3 ACC) Virginia 4 (27-13,6-10 ACC)
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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Danny Payne cf............. 3 0 1 0 Tim Henry cf............... 3 1 0 0
Tyler Greene ss............ 5 0 0 0 Matt Street rf............. 4 2 2 1
Steven Blackwood lf........ 3 0 0 0 Ryan Zimmerman 3b.......... 3 0 1 0
Wes Hodges 3b.............. 4 0 1 0 Sean Doolittle 1b.......... 4 0 2 1
Jeremy Slayden dh.......... 4 1 2 0 Brandon Guyer dh........... 3 1 0 0
Matt Wieters 1b............ 4 0 2 0 Tom Hagan lf............... 3 0 0 0
Jeff Kindel rf............. 4 0 3 1 Scott Headd c.............. 4 0 2 1
Andy Hawranick c........... 4 0 0 0 Mike Campagna ss........... 4 0 1 0
Mike Trapani 2b............ 4 1 1 0 Kyle Werman 2b............. 3 0 0 0
Lee Hyde p................. 0 0 0 0 Matt Avery p............... 0 0 0 0
Jared Hyatt p............. 0 0 0 0 Jeff Kamrath p............ 0 0 0 0
Casey Lambert p........... 0 0 0 0
Totals..................... 35 2 10 1 Totals..................... 31 4 8 3
Score by Innings R H E
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Georgia Tech........ 001 000 010 - 2 10 2
Virginia............ 002 110 00X - 4 8 1
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E - Greene, T.(10); Hawranick, A(4); Street(2). DP - Georgia Tech 1. LOB - Georgia
Tech 9; Virginia 7. 2B - Payne, D.(9); Trapani, M.(5); Street(3). SH - Payne, D.(2).
SB - Henry(8); Doolittle(6). CS - Zimmerman(3).
Georgia Tech IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Lee Hyde L,5-2............ 4.1 5 4 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 17 20 4 5 75
Jared Hyatt ............... 3.2 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 14 15 8 1 53
Virginia IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Matt Avery ................ 4.0 4 1 1 1 6 0 1 0 0 15 17 4 2 73
Jeff Kamrath W,7-3........ 4.0 6 1 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 17 18 3 3 73
Casey Lambert S,9......... 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 13
BK - Avery(1). Inherited runners/scored: Hyatt, J. 1/1. Pitches/strikes: Hyde, L. 75/46;
Hyatt, J. 53/38; Avery 73/50; Kamrath 73/47; Lambert 13/9.
Strikeouts - Payne, D. 2; Greene, T.; Blackwood, S 2; Hodges, W.; Wieters, M. 2;
Kindel, J.; Hawranick, A 2; Trapani, M. 2; Doolittle; Guyer; Headd; Campagna.
Walks - Payne, D.; Blackwood, S; Henry; Zimmerman; Guyer; Hagan.
Umpires - HP: Ron Sebastian 1B: Bryant Woodall 3B: Phelps Prescott
Start: 6:59 pm Finish 5:38 pm Time: 2:44 Attendance: 1144