March 6, 2015 PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - The Georgetown baseball team escaped the winter weather with its annual spring break trip to Florida. Starting Saturday, the Hoyas will play seven games in eight days at the Snowbird Baseball Classic in Port Charlotte, Florida.
The Blue & Gray will open play against Illinois State on Saturday, March 7, at 10:30 a.m. GU will also play a doubleheader on Sunday, March 8, versus Big Ten-opponent Northwestern as well as two games apiece against Western Michigan (Monday, March 8 and Friday, March 13) and Lehigh (Tuesday, March 9 and Saturday, March 14).
The Hoyas will be trying to stop a four-game losing streak when they take the field on Saturday morning. Offensively, they are led by freshman
Austin Shirley (Strafford, Pa./Conestoga) who has started all seven games in left field and is batting .333 with a .455 on-base percentage. He leads the team with nine hits on the season and has served as Georgetown's leadoff hitter each of the past three games.
Last Time Out ... Georgetown had eight hits and put runners on base in six of its nine at-bats, but could only manage one run, falling to George Washington, 5-1, on Wednesday afternoon. The game was played at the Colonials' Tucker Field at Barcroft Park in Arlington, Virginia.
Jack Vander Linden (Dallas, Texas/The Episcopal School of Dallas) started and went 2.2 innings, giving up two earned runs on three hits and two walks. The Hoyas got scoreless relief appearances from Tim Davis (Vienna, Va./James Madison HS), Jimmy Swad (Washington, D.C./St. Albans School) and David Ellingson (The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands College Park). Davis went 1.1 perfect innings with two strikeouts while Swad went 2.1 innings with two strikeouts. Curtiss Pomeroy (Shrewsbury, Mass./St. John's/Phillips Andover) had a single and a double.
What's Up Next ... After returning from Florida, the Hoyas will play a pair of midweek games. They recently added a home game at Shirley Povich Field against Marist on Tuesday, March 17 at 2 p.m. The next day, the Blue & Gray will travel to Annapolis to take on Navy in a 3 p.m. contest.
