WALDORF, Md. – Starter Nolan McCarthy dominated the Wildcat lineup in his complete game victory before Ubaldo Lopez smacked a walk-off single to lift the Georgetown University baseball team to a 3-2 victory over Villanova on Saturday. Georgetown jumped to 18-9 overall with a 2-0 record in conference play while the Wildcats dropped to 7-15-1 with a 0-2 BE mark. 

"When you look at a baseball game and have the opportunity to watch, today's game is what you draw up as a fan. Today was an unbelievable baseball game with two good teams going at it. Our team was resilient, the guys stuck with it and ultimately, came out with the victory. We had a great start in Nolan McCarthy to go a complete game, Tony Barreca got on in the ninth and then Lopez to bring [Keith Savoy Jr.] in was special." - Head Coach Edwin Thompson on today's conference win

HOYA HIGHLIGHTS

• McCarthy became the first pitcher since Jae Gnazzo in 2021 to toss a complete game, allowing just two runs on six hits while striking out four in nine innings of work. It also marks his first complete game victory for Georgetown and first since 2020 with Occidental.
• Lopez drove in all three Hoya runs with a 2-for-5 day at the dish, smacking a two-run shot and a game-winning RBI single in the ninth. With the walk-off single, Lopez recorded his second game-ending hit of the season.
• Tony Barreca, Owen Carapellotti, Michael Eze and Ethan Stern all tallied one hit while Eze and Savoy Jr. crossed home plate once.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• McCarthy retired the first seven batters of the game before surrendering his first base hit in the third. 
• Villanova rattled the Hoya righty in the fourth inning, scoring twice to go up 2-0.
• Lopez quickly responded in the home half of the fourth with a two-run shot after Eze reached on an infield single, tying the game at two.
• Villanova's reliever Danny Wilkinson dominated the Hoya lineup when he came on in the fifth, stifling the lineup while McCarthy kept pace with the hard-throwing reliever.
• The energy turned in favor of Georgetown after McCarthy forced VU's clean-up hitter Joey Castellanos to ground into a double play to end the eighth. In the top of the ninth, Andrew Bergeron made a crucial diving play in center to end the inning.
• Barreca smacked a one-out double to left center to put a runner in scoring position. After Savoy Jr. came in to pinch run at second and Jake Hyde drew a two-out walk, Lopez sent everyone home on an RBI single to left, lifting Georgetown to a 3-2 win.

OF NOTE

• The Hoyas tied the program's single-season home run record (54) with one home run on the afternoon.
• Georgetown walked off for the third time this season with Lopez his second of the year.

UP NEXT
Georgetown will return to Regency Furniture Stadium for the series finale against Villanova on Sunday, April 3 at 1 p.m. Andrew Williams is slated to toe the slab against VU's Brandon Siegenthaler.