BETHESDA, Md. – Butler scored three runs in the top of the ninth inning to hand the Georgetown University baseball team a heartbreaking 3-2 loss on Thursday night in a BIG EAST conference game at Shirley Povich Field. With the setback, the Hoyas drop to 20-34 overall and 5-11 in BIG EAST play while the Bulldogs move to 26-24 on the season and 6-9 in conference action.
 
Jeremiah Burke (Delmar, N.Y. / Bethlehem Central / La Salle Institute) started on the mound and went 6.1 shutout innings, allowing just three hits and three walks while recording 10 strikeouts. Owen Lamon (Herndon, Va. / Oakton) had two big strikeouts in 0.2 innings of relief.
 
Eddie McCabe (Norwalk, Conn. / Norwalk) had two of Georgetown's four hits and was on base four times with a pair of walks. Kai Nelson (New York, N.Y. / Fieldston) was on base three times with a hit and two walks and Alex Rosen (Newport Beach, Calif. / Corona Del Mar) was hit by a pitch twice. The Hoyas only had four hits but received five walks and three hit batters.
 
Georgetown took an early 1-0 lead as Nelson led off the bottom of the first with a walk and went to second on a sacrifice bunt. McCabe lined a two-out RBI single into right field to score Nelson and put GU on top.
 
The score remained the same until the bottom of the seventh inning when Rosen was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and replaced by Yareb Martinez (Aldie, Va. / John Champe) as a pinch runner. With two outs, Ryan Weisenberg (Parkland, Fla. / San Ramon Valley [Calif.]) lifted a double off the scoreboard in left-center field to send Martinez around the bases and give the Hoyas a 2-0 advantage.
 
Nick Morreale (Lake Elmo, Minn. / St. Thomas Academy / IMG Academy) came on in relief in the eighth inning and pitched a scoreless frame. However, Butler used three hits, an error and a sacrifice fly in the ninth to score three runs and take a 3-2 lead.
 
Nelson reached on a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth, but the Hoyas could not score the tying run as they dropped the first game of the series.
 
The two teams will resume the series at 6 p.m. on Friday evening and Georgetown will celebrate its senior class in a pregame Senior Day ceremony. Links to live stats and a video stream will be available at GUHoyas.com.
 
Notes – Weisenberg's double in the seventh inning gives him 149 career hits and he is just one away from becoming the 37th member of GU's 150-hit club … Jack Cushing (Flower Mound, Texas / Marcus) will take the mound on Friday and currently has 225 career strikeouts, which is good for second all-time in program history ... He is just four away from tying Matt Smith (B'16) for the career record.