WASHINGTON – The Georgetown University baseball team scored double digit runs in both games, sweeping a doubleheader from Rider on Saturday afternoon at Shirley Povich Field. The Hoyas won by scores of 12-7 and 10-9 to move to 13-26 on the season while the Broncs fall to 13-25 overall.
Game One: Georgetown 12, Rider 7
The Hoya offense recorded 15 hits and scored double digit runs for the first time in 18 games to win game one.
Kyle Ruedisili (Jupiter, Fla. / The Benjamin School / Washington and Lee University) led the offensive attack with three hits, including a pair of doubles. He scored two runs and also drove in two.
Freddy Achecar III (Atlanta, Ga. / Lovett School) also had three hits.
Matt Stone (Westport, Conn / Staples) and
Yareb Martinez (Aldie, Va. / John Champe) each had two hits, including a double, and two RBIs.
Ryan P. Davis (Oak Hill, Va. / Oakton) also had a two-hit performance, including a home run.
Nick Morreale (Lake Elmo, Minn. / St. Thomas Academy / IMG Academy) started on the mound and went 6.0 innings, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks while striking out three. He needed six pitches in each of the first two innings and struck out the side on 10 pitches, all strikes, in the top of the third.
Anthony Redfern (Andover, Mass. / Phillips Andover) fired a scoreless inning in relief.
Miller Freeman (Nashville, Tenn. / Montgomery Bell Academy) struck out one in a scoreless frame.
The Hoyas took a 1-0 lead just two batters into the game as Ruedisili led off with a double down the right field line and immediately scored on an RBI single by
Ryan Weisenberg (Parkland, Fla. / San Ramon Valley [Calif.]).
Georgetown sent 13 batters to the plate in the bottom of the second inning, scoring seven runs to extend its lead to 8-0. A single and walk put the first two runners on before
James Gabor (Wyndmoor, Pa. / William Penn Charter School) lined a run-scoring double into the right field corner. Consecutive walks scored another run before Ruedisili hit his second double of the game into the right-center field gap, pushing across two more runs. Ruedisili came home on a throwing error before a walk and a single reloaded the bases. Achecar forced home a run with a hit by pitch before
Michael Willis (Baltimore, Md. / Gilman) capped off the inning with an RBI single.
Davis led off the bottom of the fourth inning with a solo home run, his third of the season, over the left field fence. Three batters later, Stone lined a two-run single over the third baseman's head to extend GU's advantage to 11-0.
Rider got on the board with three runs in the top of the fifth inning. In the bottom of the sixth, Gabor walked and went to third on a double by Stone. Martinez followed with a single into center that scored Gabor and pushed the lead to 12-3.
The Broncs scored four runs, three earned, over the final two innings but Freeman got the final three outs to seal the win.
Game Two: Georgetown 10, Rider 9
The Hoyas scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh to overcome a four-run deficit and
Kai Nelson (New York, N.Y. / Fieldston) threw out the tying run at the plate to end the game as Georgetown completed the sweep.
Weisenberg had two hits and scored three times while
Alex Gamache (Lake Forest, Ill. / Lake Forest Academy) had two hits and a pair of RBIs. Ruedisili and Davis both homered.
Jeremiah Burke (Delmar, N.Y. / Bethlehem Central / La Salle Institute) started on the mound and went 5.1 innings, allowing five runs on nine hits while striking out six.
Jacob Grzebinski (Bellaire, Texas / Emory Weiner) picked up his first win of the season with 3.0 innings of relief, allowing two runs while striking out three.
Ruedisili got the Hoyas off to another quick start, launching a leadoff home run, his team-leading seventh, in the bottom of first.
Rider answered with two runs in the second and one more in the third to take a 3-1 lead.
In the bottom of the third, a pair of walks put two runners on base before Gamache lined a two-out, two-run double into the right-center field gap to tie the game at three. Ruedisili lifted a sacrifice fly into right in the bottom of the fourth to give the lead back to GU 4-3. Weisenberg led off the bottom of the fifth with a double and eventually came around to score on an error to put the Hoyas up by two, 5-3.
Rider evened the score with two runs in the top of the sixth. The Broncs took a 9-5 lead with four runs off of two GU relievers in the top of the seventh.
In the bottom half of the seventh, an error and a single put two runners on base with two outs. Davis came in as a pinch hitter and launched a 3-2 pitch over the left field wall for a three-run blast, his second of the day and fourth of the season. Martinez restarted the rally with a double and, after a walk to Ruedisili, Nelson entered to pinch hit. He lifted a fly ball to center that went off the fielder's glove allowing both runners to score and put GU up 10-9.
Grzebinski tagged out a runner trying to score and Nelson fired home to record the final out as the Hoyas completed the sweep.
Georgetown will remain at home to host George Washington in a midweek matchup on Wednesday, April 24. The Blue & Gray will then jump back into conference play, welcoming St. John's to Shirley Povich Field for a three-game series April 26-28.
