April 9, 2009
Box Score
Washington, D.C. - The Georgetown University baseball team fell behind early due to a couple walks, an error and a wild pitch and could not recover on Thursday afternoon in a loss at home to USF, 11-3. The Hoyas dropped to 10-20 with a 3-7 conference mark while the Bulls improved to 20-11 overall and 8-2 in BIG EAST play with the win.
South Florida jumped out to a 4-0 lead on only one hit against starter Will Harris (Winter Park, Fla./Trinity Prep) and the Bulls lead 8-0 before GU got going offensively. In the sixth, Tom Elliott (Blue Bell, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep) singled through the right side and freshman Andy Lentz (Farmington Hills, Mich./Brother Rice) followed with a double down the left-field line. After a walk to Erick Fernandez (Hialeah, Fla./Hialeah) loaded the bases, Sean Lamont (Houston, Texas/Bellaire) added to his team-leading RBI total with a sacrifice line-out to left field. Sean Baumann (Tampa, Fla./Freedom) singled to right field, re-loading the bases, and Dan Godefroi (Andover, Mass./Andover) delivered the second sacrifice fly of the inning to make the score 8-2.
The Blue & Gray added another run in the eighth. Fernandez started the frame with a double down the left-field line and moved to third on a groundout by Lamont. Baumann slapped a grounder to the right side of the infield and was thrown out at first, however, Fernandez came home on the play with no throw plateward. The team had a chance to add more in the inning after Godefroi singled and Dan Capeless (Centerville, Mass./Boston College H.S.) doubled, but a strikeout silenced the GU threat.
USF received a big performance on the mound from Randy Fontanez who improved his record to 3-3 with an eight-inning outing. The right-hander allowed only three earned runs and struck out five batters. The Hoyas countered with Harris (2-5) who allowed four earned runs in five and one-thirds innings pitched. The freshman struck out four batters and classmate Tommy Isaacs (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla./Bolles) closed the final three and two-thirds innings for GU.
USF sophomore Stephen Hunt, senior Chris Rey and freshman Daniel Rockhold each posted multiple hits and scored a run. The first three batters in the Bulls lineup (Ryan Lockwood, Jonathan Koscso and Hunt) were responsible for scoring seven of the team's runs.
The two teams will square off in game two of their series tomorrow at noon from Shirley Povich Field.
