WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - William & Mary's bats exploded for 21 runs on four long balls in a 21-9 win over Lafayette Saturday afternoon at Plumeri Park. The 21 runs for the Tribe is the most in a single game since the 2015 season. 
 
Cole Ragone hit the team's third grand slam of the season in the eighth inning. Ben Williamson, Joe Delossantos, and Matt Thomas all also homered for the Tribe. Catcher Max Winters had three hits, six runs driven in, and scored four times, while Ragone had a career-high eight runs driven in. 
 
Carter Lovasz earned the win allowing just one run on three hits over 4.0 innings. Randy Prosperi, Adam Fischer and Garrett Casey combined to allow just two runs out of the bullpen over 4.2 innings. 
 
Lafayette wasted no time getting on the board as a leadoff double led to one run for the Leopards in the first. The Tribe answered in the bottom half as Williamson belted a 2-2 pitch over the scoreboard in left field to tie the ballgame. David Hogarth followed with a single and Nate Goranson and Jack Cone would walk to load the bases. Winters ripped a 1-0 pitch into left center to clear the bases and later came home himself on a Joe Delossantos single. 
 
After two-out walks to Goranson and Cone, Winters continued his big day with another double, this time off the wall in left to plate both runners. Winters would score on a single from Cole Ragone. With a man on, Delossantos crushed the first pitch over the wall in left-center for his first homer of the year to make it 10-1 Tribe. 
 
After a pair of scoreless frames, Lafayette would make a major dent in the Tribe's lead with six runs on six hits, taking advantage of a pair of William & Mary errors in the fifth. But Matt Thomas would open up the bottom half of the frame with a rocket over the left field wall to push the Tribe lead back to four. 
 
The Leopards would get a pair of runs, taking advantage of another Tribe error in the top half of the sixth. After a scoreless seventh from Prosperi, the Tribe placed a three-spot on the board highlighted by a bases loaded full count rocket off the wall in left center off the bat of Ragone that scored a trio of runners. 
 
William & Mary poured on some insurance runs in the ninth as Goranson pasted a bases loaded single to left plating Thomas and Williamson. After Winters was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, Ragone lifted a high drive over the wall in left making it 21-9. 
 
Adam Fischer and Garrett Casey would combine to shut the door on Lafayette in the ninth. 
 
UP NEXT- The Tribe will conclude the weekend with Princeton tomorrow afternoon at Plumeri Park.