LEXINGTON, Va. - Binghamton baseball (4-7) rapped 15 hits and scored in six of nine innings to throttle host VMI (4-10) 12-3 Saturday afternoon at Gray-Minor Stadium. With the win, the Bearcats stretched their win streak to three and now have won four of their last five. 

Junior center fielder Shane Marshall and senior second baseman Alex Baratta had three hits and two RBI apiece and Binghamton scored 10 runs in the last five innings to blow the game wide open.

Meanwhile on the mound, sophomore Jack Collins (W, 1-2) held the Keydets scoreless in his 5.0 innings of work before turning it over to BU's bullpen. Collins allowed just three hits and struck out five. He stranded three runners over the first two innings to keep VMI at bay when the game was tight.

Marshall opened the scoring with an RBI double in the first inning. Baratta followed with an RBI single to quickly put the Bearcats ahead 2-0. Marshall added a two-out RBI single in the sixth and Baratta capped his day with an RBI single in the ninth. 

After three scoreless frames, BU scored a run in the fifth, two in the sixth, three in the seventh, another in the eighth and three more runs in the ninth. VMI put its three runs on the board in the eighth, courtesy of just one hit.

Baratta went 3-for-5 with two RBI and raised his season batting average to .400. Marshall went 3-for-6 with two runs driven in and three scored. Senior third baseman Justin Drpich went 3-for-6 and junior shortstop Jake Evans added two hits to bump his team-best average to .444. Sophomore first baseman Kevin Gsell contributed two RBI to match Baratta with a team-high 10 on the season.  

The teams conclude their three-game set with a 1 p.m. game on Sunday. Junior right-hander Josh Kopcza (1-1) makes his fourth start of the spring.