Baseball Records First BIG EAST Victory with 2-0 Win over
Georgetown
Connecticut
vs Georgetown (Mar 15, 2008)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(March 14, 2008)
— Freshman pitcher Dan Mahoney (Boston,
Mass.) pitched eight innings while striking out seven as the University of Connecticut baseball team
slipped past Georgetown 2-0 on Saturday afternoon at the Shirley Povich Field in Washington, D.C.
After nine scoreless innings and
21 strikeouts, UConn took a 1-0 lead as freshman Mike Nemeth
(Washington, N.J.) led off the top of the tenth inning with a single
to right field. Nemeth was thrown out at second on a fielder's
choice by sophomore Dale Brannon (St. Petersburg, Fla.), who
pitch hit for Brad Olt (Branford, Conn.). Brannon then
advanced to second as senior Gordon Stevens (Vista, Calif.)
singled to center. With two outs, freshman Elliot Glynn (Los
Alamitos, Calif.) reached base on a fielding error by Georgetown's
Dan Capeless as Brannon was able to score the go-ahead run from
second.
The Huskies added another run to
go up 2-0 as senior co-captain Pat Mahoney (Des Moines, Iowa)
recorded his third hit of the game with a single to right field as
he picked up his eighth RBI of the season.
UConn relief pitcher and
co-captain David Erickson (Stratford, Conn.) hit one
batter in the bottom of the tenth but easily got three quick outs to
close out the game as the Huskies recorded their first BIG EAST
victory of the 2008 season.
Dan Mahoney struck out seven and
allowed just one hit in his eight innings pitched, while Erickson
came into the game in the ninth inning and allowed one hit as well.
Erickson clinched the victory for the Huskies and earned the win as
part of the fierce pitching duo.
Georgetown's Michael Gaggioli
went nine innings on the mound while striking out 13 Huskies and
allowing six hits. Daniel Kennedy took the hill in the tenth for the
Hoyas and gave up three hits and no earned runs.
Sean Lamont and Kelly Muir were
the only two Hoyas to record a hit on the afternoon as UConn held
the Hoyas scoreless while recording an errorless game.
Pat Mahoney's three hits and one
RBI led UConn in the BIG EAST battle as the Huskies improve to 5-8
overall on the season and 1-1 in conference play. With the loss,
Georgetown falls to 6-9 on the year and 1-1 in the BIG EAST.
UConn will finish the BIG EAST
Conference series against Georgetown on Sunday afternoon with a 12:00 p.m.
weekend finale.
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