April 24, 2002

Bethesda, MD ? Georgetown?s baseball team collected 11 runs on 19 hits while picking up a victory in a nighttime double-header against Mount St. Mary?s at Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda, MD. Freshman James Supple led the offense in the 7-5 win batting 2-for-3 with a homerun and three RBIs. The Hoyas out hit (10-9) the Mountaineers in Game Two but were unable to capitalize losing 7-4.

The Hoyas trailed early in Game One when the Mountaineers took advantage of a walk and an error to grab a 1-0 lead in the first. GU tied the game an inning later when Bill Quinn?s RBI groundout allowed centerfielder Carlos Gazitua, who led the inning off with a triple, to cross home plate. The teams then traded runs in the third. The Mountaineers? Jason Weszka homered for their run of the inning while the Hoyas took advantage of a single, a walk and an error to tie the game at 2-2. Leftfielder Ron Cano singled to centerfield to lead off the inning and moved to second on a Mike Green groundout. First baseman Matt Carullo followed with a walk placing runners on first and second. The Hoyas aggressiveness on the base paths paid off as a double-steal by Cano and Carullo combined with a Mountaineer error pushed the tying run across the plate.

Georgetown added another run in the fourth on Tony Lee?s RBI single scoring Jon Blodgett and then followed with a four-run fifth to take a commanding 7-2 lead. Quinn started the scoring driving a ball to right field for an RBI single allowing Green to score. Then, with runners on first and second, catcher James Supple homered for the first time in his collegiate career picking up three RBIs and giving the Hoyas the 7-2 lead. Mount St. Mary?s effort in the sixth cut into the Hoyas lead as they scored three runs on one hit trimming the deficit to 7-5.

Georgetown, in a first of the season, used starting pitcher Kevin Field for relief in the seventh and the move worked out. Field retired the side in order including two strikeouts for his first save as a Hoya preserving the 7-5 win. Starting pitcher Kevin Galvin (2-2) picked up the win limiting the Mountaineers to two hits while striking out five in 5.1 innings.

The Hoyas scored four runs on 10 hits in Game Two but left six runners on base losing by the score of 4-7. GU?s only lead of the game came in the first when they collected two runs on four hits to take a 2-1 advantage. Gazitua and Carullo picked up the RBIs on singles as both Cano and Green scored. Mount St. Mary?s rebounded though getting four more runs over the next three innings to take a 5-2 lead. A Mike Green RBI single in the fifth scored Lee and trimmed the lead down to two. The Mountaineers followed with runs in the sixth and seventh taking a 7-3 advantage. The Hoyas rally in the seventh was too little too late as they managed one more run on a Mountaineer balk but still lost by the score of 7-4.

Starting pitcher Tyler Abbott (0-4) suffered the loss lasting 3.2 innings allowing five runs on six hits and striking out two. Relief pitcher Tony Pina closed out the game hurling the final 3.1 innings while striking out five.

GU (9-39 overall, 2-18 BIG EAST) heads back into conference play this weekend with a three-game set against UCONN (21-16, 9-7) in Storrs, Connecticut. The double-header on Saturday and final game on Sunday are both set to start at 12:00 noon EST.