MASON, Ohio - The fourth-seeded Georgetown University baseball team dropped its opening round contest of the BIG EAST Baseball Championship, presented by Jeep, to top-seeded UConn 4-0 at Prasco Park on Thursday. The Hoyas dropped to 32-23 overall while the Huskies moved to 44-13 overall.

"Give Connecticut all the credit for coming out today and getting the hits when they needed them. I thought Angelo Tonas, Andrew DeRoche and Ayden Head did really well out of the pen and Carter Bosch gave us a chance through five innings. We'll have to get ready to play tomorrow and find a way to win. There's a lot of baseball still left."  - Head Coach Edwin Thompson on today's win

HOYA HIGHLIGHTS

• Andrew Ciufo smacked a pair of singles in the opening game of the BIG EAST Baseball Championship.
• Cam Meyer hit the team's 100th double of the season with a two-bagger in the sixth.
• Tonas tossed his fifth scoreless inning against UConn this year, allowing just one hit in one frame of work.
• Ethan Stern also tallied a base knock on Thursday, extending his reached base streak to 32 games.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• After a blank first inning, the Hoyas forced the Huskies to ground into a 6-4-3 double play and kept them off the board in the second.
• Bosch prevented UConn from recording a hit through 3.1 frames, retiring 10 of the first 11 batters he faced. 
• The top seed put two on the board in the fourth before scoring one run in both the fifth and sixth for a 4-0 lead.
• Both teams were held scoreless over the final three frames while the trio of Tonas, DeRoche and Head combined for 2.1 blank innings with just one hit allowed.
• The Huskies shut down the Hoyas in the ninth, knocking them off 4-0.

 
UP NEXT
Georgetown will take on the loser of today's contest between second-seeded Creighton and third-seeded Xavier, at Prasco Park, on Friday, May 27 with first pitch slated for 6:30 p.m