FARMVILLE, Va. - Junior Josh Kopcza pitched six scoreless innings and Binghamton baseball (2-7) scored runs in five of the first six innings en route to an 11-4 win over host Longwood (3-9) in the rubber game of a weekend series Sunday at Buddy Bolding Stadium.

The Bearcats had a 15-hit attack and ran through eight Lancer pitchers in the series finale. Kopcza (W, 1-1) and freshman Dominic Buonadonna (save) kept Longwood off the board for eight of the nine innings. 

Binghamton scored twice in the first inning, once in the second and twice more in the third to jump ahead 5-0. The Bearcats added a run in the fifth, two more in the sixth. After Longwood countered with four in the seventh to make it 8-4, BU finished the scoring with three additional runs in the eighth. 

Kopcza, meanwhile, scattered five hits in his best outing of the young season. He struck out two and didn't walk a batter, escaping his biggest jam with the pair of strikeouts to leave two stranded in the fifth. After BU ran into trouble in the seventh, Buonadonna entered and worked out of a bases-loaded pickle with a groundout after the Lancers brought the tying run to the plate. 

Junior shortstop Jake Evans continued his torrid start to the spring with a three-hit day. Evans had an RBI single in the fifth and scored three runs. He is batting a team-best .447 thus far in 2020. Freshman right fielder Tommy Reifler went 2-for-4 with three RBI. He has four hits in 11 at-bats (.364) to start his collegiate career. Sophomore first baseman Kevin Gsell belted his first home run of the season to lead off the eighth and had two hits and three runs scored. Senior catcher TJ Wegmann and sophomore left fielder Cavan Tully had two hits apiece. Tully and Reifler gave BU some early breathing room when each delivered a two-out, two-strike RBI single in the third inning. 

Binghamton returns to Virginia next weekend for a three-game set at VMI.