VMI baseball capped off the 2025 regular season with a 15-6 win over Wofford College at Russell C. King Field May 16, 2025.
The Keydets (27-25, 6-15 SoCon) put up stellar offensive numbers to storm past the Terriers, snapping a 10-game conference skid. With the win, VMI is guaranteed a winning record for the first time since 2014. This marks the third straight season for Sam Roberts ’11, head coach, and company, with 25 or more wins for the first time in 17 seasons.
Key Stats
- VMI posted 15 runs off a season-high 24 hits, the most in a game since 2023 and just one shy of the single-game record.
- Every Keydet had multiple hits, with five earning three or more hits.
- Bradley Garner ’28 recorded four hits with two home runs, a double, three RBIs, and four runs.
- Garner extended his hitting streak to 10 games and his on-base streak to 28 games.
- Owen Prince ’26, Boston Torres ’28, Ryan Peterson ’25, and Kazuya Jordan ’26 each tallied three hits.
- Peterson earned three RBIs with Torres and Prince having two apiece.
- Max Perry ’28 had two hits, two runs, and two RBIs.
- Grayson Fitzwater ’26 had two hits, two runs, and an RBI, while Ayden Schnarrs ’28 earned two hits with a run.
- Marcus Van Alstine ’25 tossed a brilliant six innings with four strikeouts for his third win.
- Caden Plummer ’25 earned his first save after throwing the final three innings.
- Roberts collected career win No. 80.
Scoring Summary
- The Keydets jumped out to a 2-0 lead after Garner opened the game with a home run before Peterson drove in another run.
- Wofford tied the game at two in the bottom half.
- VMI plated three in the second inning off back-to-back-to-back RBIs from Garner, Fitzwater, and Torres.
- The Terriers cut the deficit to just one in the fourth inning.
- Perry drove in a pair off of a double before Jordan added another run off an infield single to double up Wofford, 8-4.
- Garner smashed his second bomb of the day over the centerfield wall in the sixth inning, extending the lead to 9-4.
- Wofford put up two in the seventh, making it 9-6.
- The Keydets exploded for six unanswered runs between the eighth and ninth innings.
Editor’s Note: This article was first published on vmikeydets.com.
