BETHESDA, Md. – The Georgetown University baseball team had 13 hits, but Princeton took advantage of four errors to defeat the Hoyas 10-6 on Friday afternoon at Shirley Povich Field. With the loss, the Hoyas fall to 4-13 on the season, while the Tigers improve to 2-6.
Eddie McCabe (Norwalk, Conn. / Conn.) led a quartet of Hoyas with multi-hit efforts, finishing with three hits and a pair of RBIs.
Ryan M. Davis (Danville, Calif. / San Ramon Valley),
Tony Barreca (Long Grove, Iowa / North Scott) and
Yareb Martinez (Aldie, Va. / John Champe) all added two hits apiece.
Ryan Weisenberg (Parkland, Fla. / San Ramon Valley [Calif.]) and
Will Salomon (Greenwich, Conn. / Brunswick) both hit their first home runs of the season.
Jeremiah Burke (Delmar, N.Y. / Bethlehem Central / La Salle Institute) started on the mound and went 7.0 innings, allowing six runs, four earned, on five hits and a walk while striking out three.
Princeton opened the scoring with two unearned runs in the top of the first inning and expanded its lead to 5-0 on a three-run homer in the second inning.
The Hoyas began chipping away in the bottom of the third. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases with one out. McCabe singled in a run before a
Michael Willis (Baltimore, Md. / Gilman) sacrifice fly cut the deficit to 5-2.
After a Princeton solo home run in the fifth, Georgetown put two more runs on the board in the bottom half of the inning. Four-consecutive singles, that last by McCabe, scored a run before
Kai Nelson (New York, N.Y. / Fieldston) crossed the plate on a double play to slash the Tigers' lead in half, 6-4.
Salomon hit a solo home run, the first of his career, over the left field fence in the bottom of the sixth to make it a one-run game. Princeton scored in to the top of the eighth to make it a 7-5 game, but Weisenberg lined an opposite-field homer to right field in the bottom half of the inning to bring the deficit back to one.
The Tigers scored three runs in the top of the ninth to pull away and provide the final margin, 10-6.
The two teams will resume their four-game series on Saturday with a doubleheader at Shirley Povich Field. Game one, which will be a seven-inning contest, is set for 1 p.m. while game two, a nine-inning affair, will start shortly after the conclusion of the first game. Live stats and a video stream will be available at GUHoyas.com.
