Baseball Welcomes No. 16 UConn for Final Regular Season Series

WASHINGTON – The Georgetown University baseball team will return home for the final conference and regular season series of 2022 as it welcomes No. 16 UConn to Shirley Povich Field for a three-game set beginning on Thursday.

Thursday's contest is slated for 6 p.m., followed by Senior Day on Friday with first pitch also scheduled for 6 p.m. The Hoyas and the Huskies will close out the series with first pitch changed to noon, due to travel time for UConn.

GAMEDAY INFORMATION

All three contests will be streamed live on HoyaVision with Jeremy Huber on the call.
Fans will also have access to live stats for all three contests on GUHoyas.com.

ABOUT THE HOYAS

Georgetown fell 4-3 in a 12-inning affair on the road against VCU on Tuesday, marking its second-straight extra-inning game in three days.
Jake Hyde continues to pace the BIG EAST with 66 runs scored (8th in NCAA while holding second with 148 total bases (11th in NCAA) and 17 homers.
The Connecticut native has logged 77 hits this season, tying Zach Racusin (2017) and John Belicka (1990) for sixth-most in program history and sits nine knocks behind single-season leaders Mike Garza (2012) and Kurt Kaull (1983) with 86.
Ethan Stern rides a 28-game reached base streak into the weekend series, a season and team-best.
Freshman Owen Carapellotti paces three Hoyas with batting averages over .300 in conference play, posting a .305 mark with 18 hits, 12 runs and 15 RBIs. Stern and Cam Meyer have matching .304 averages in BE play.
GU's pitching staff has registered three shutouts this season, second-most by a BIG EAST team (UConn - 5). The Hoyas have struck out 10 or more batters in a game on 19 occasions, boasting a 16-3 record and have won 13-straight contests. Furthermore, the team's 417 total strikeouts rank second all-time in a single season.

SCOUTING NO. 16 UCONN

The Huskies have won three-straight contests after dropping a game to both Northeastern and Xavier.
As a team, UConn leads the conference in several categories, most notably with a 3.08 ERA (2nd in NCAA), 502 hits (10th in NCAA) and 8.2 runs per game (25th in NCAA).
Austin Peterson (9), Pat Gallagher (8) and Ian Cooke (7) rank first, second and fourth in the conference for total wins respectively.

PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS
Thursday: RHP Carter Bosch (5-3, 4.92 ERA) vs. RHP Austin Peterson (9-1, 2.75 ERA)
Friday: RHP Nolan McCarthy (6-2, 4.11 ERA) vs. RHP Pat Gallagher (8-3, 2.91 ERA)
Saturday: TBD vs. Enzo Stefanoni (6-1, 2.81 ERA)

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