May 7, 2014
Final Stats
WASHINGTON - The Georgetown baseball team outhit the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) 10-7, including six doubles, but it was not enough as the Hoyas fell 4-3 Wednesday night to the Retrievers at Shirley Povich Field.
Beau Hall (Seaville, N.J./Ocean City) and Jake Kuzbel (Ashburn, Va./Stone Ridge) each had two doubles and Nick Collins (Carthage, N.C./Union Pines) also had two hits. Joseph Bialkowski (Raleigh, N.C./Needham B. Broughton) started on the mound and went two scoreless innings. He also went 1-for-2 at the plate with an RBI double.
The Hoyas (17-27) scored two runs in the bottom of the first with four two-out hits. Collins started the two-out rally with a single and moved up to second on a single by Steve Anderson (Albany, N.Y./Northfield Mt. Hermon Prep (Mass.)/Guilderland). After both runners moved up a base on a wild pitch, Patrick Camporini (Safety Harbor, Fla./Clearwater Central Catholic) singled to left field to score Collins. Bialkowski followed with a double to left-center to plate Anderson, giving Georgetown a 2-0 lead.
UMBC (14-24) took the lead with three unearned runs in the top of the third inning off of Nick Leonard (Washington, D.C./Maret).
The Blue & Gray tied things back up in the fourth on doubles on a leadoff double by Hall down the left field line and a one-out double by Kuzbel down the right field line.
The Retrievers went ahead with a run in the seventh off of Camporini, who had come in from left field to pitch two innings.
Georgetown put together a two-out threat in the bottom of the ninth. Kuzbel hit his second double of the game and Ryan Busch (Falcon Heights, Minn./Roseville Area) walked to put the winning run on base. However, both were stranded as UMBC's closer struck out Eric Webber (Stockton, Calif./St. Mary's) to end the game.
The Hoyas travel to Indianapolis, Ind., for their final BIG EAST series this weekend - Friday, Saturday and Sunday - at Butler. First pitch on Friday is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Notes - Camporini's single in the first innings extended his streak to 28 consecutive games of reaching base safely.
