Connecticut 16, South Alabama 11

Connecticut       0 0 0 1 2 0 12 0 1 - 16 16 0
South Alabama    0 4 0 0 0 2 1 0 4 - 11 22 6

Nick Tucci, Bob Barton (6), Keith Potvin (9) and Mike Leonard. Tony Neal, Adam Wood (6), Tommy Major (7), Bert Heath (7), Billy Fullam (7), J.J. Jackson (8) and Tim Land and Jason Gross (8). WP-Barton (1-1). LP-Wood (0-1). 2B– Dempsey (C), Mocerino (C), T. Touchstone (S), Parker (S). 3B-D’Argento (C), Sytko (S). HR- J. Touchstone (S), Lind (S), Parker (S).

MOBILE, AL (March 7) – The University of Connecticut baseball team found themselves down, 6-3 after six innings, but used a 12-run seventh to pull past South Alabama, 16-11, on Friday evening at Stanky Field. The Huskies improve to 2-3 on the season at the Jaguars fall to 6-7.

Josh Touchstone homered to right field for the Jaguars first hit of the game in the second inning. He started the rally that scored four over six hits to pull ahead of the Huskies.

UConn found runs in both the fourth and fifth innings that would bring them within one. Mike McDonough (Abington, MA) had his first of three hits for the Huskies in the fourth to send in Pete Soteropoulos (Peabody, MA), who got on base on an error by the Jaguars’ centerfielder. The Huskies would score two more in the fifth.

South Alabama extended their lead in the bottom of the sixth, an inning that started off with a Brett parker homerun.

The Huskies rallied big in the top of the seventh, scoring 12 runs on nine hits and capitalizing on two South Alabama errors. Soteropoulos started the inning with a single up the middle and scored on another single by McDonough. UConn went around the order twice before the Jaguars were able to put a halt to the rally. South Alabama scored one more in the bottom of the inning and four more in the bottom of the ninth, but the 12-run inning proved too much for them to recover from.

UConn’s Bob Barton (Carlisle, MA) recorded the win and Adam Wood suffered the loss. McDonough led the Huskies’ offense, going three-for-four with six RBI and two walks. Russ D’Argento (Marlboro, MA) and Mike Mocerino (Northboro, MA) also contributed three hits in the win.

Connecticut committed no errors in the game, as the Jaguars had six.