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Georgetown University Athletics

Big East Conference Hoya Saxa
Big East Baseball Championship 2022
Rooted Creative
8
Georgetown GU 32-24
16
Winner Xavier XU 32-26
Georgetown GU
32-24
8
Final
16
Xavier XU
32-26
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Georgetown GU 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 0 0 8 6 2
Xavier XU 1 0 0 1 4 2 2 6 X 16 19 0

W: OLSON, Trevor (4-3) L: Sapienza, Matthew (2-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Ends Historic Season in Ohio

MASON, Ohio - The fourth-seeded Georgetown University baseball team was knocked out of the BIG EAST Baseball Championship, presented by Jeep, after a 16-8 loss to third seed Xavier at Prasco Park on Saturday. The Hoyas finished the season with a program record in wins (32) and home runs (98).

"The 2022 season will go down in history as one of the best teams to come to Georgetown. I'm really proud of our guys for how we competed and to be a part of something that changed our program for better. We set the program record in wins and to go from six wins to make the postseason there is a lot to be proud of. We will learn from this opportunity. We gave everything we could this year and that's all I could have asked from this group."  - Head Coach Edwin Thompson on today's game and the 2022 campaign

HOYA HIGHLIGHTS
  • Andrew Ciufo drilled his third grand slam and ninth homer of the season, putting forth a 1-for-3 performance with five RBIs.
  • Jake Hyde launched his 19th homer of the season before finishing the day 2-for-4 with two RBIs.
  • Cam Meyer smashed his ninth home run of the year, going back-to-back with Hyde in the sixth.
  • Owen Carapellotti smacked his 18th double of 2022, posting a 1-for-2 day at the dish.
  • Ethan Stern extended his reached base streak to 33 games after getting hit by a pitch.
  • Eight different Hoyas tallied a run in Saturday's contest.

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Xavier scored one run in the opening frame on a sacrifice fly (1-0).
  • The Hoyas battled in the top of the second, but the Musketeers won a challenge on a play at the plate and kept the score at 1-0.
  • After a leadoff single by XU in the bottom of the second, McCarthy forced a 6-4-3 double play and recorded eight-straight outs without allowing a hit.
  • The Musketeers tacked on one run in the bottom of the fourth and four more in the fifth to take a 6-0 lead.
  • Georgetown erased Xavier's six-run edge in the sixth after a leadoff single by Eze that ricocheted off of the Musketeer starter's leg. In the ensuing at-bat, Hyde drilled a two-run shot to right and cut the Hoya deficit to four (6-2). Five pitches later, Meyer went back-to-back with a solo shot to right center, slashing the XU lead to three (6-3). Georgetown loaded the bases with one out before Ciufo belted a grand slam to take a 7-6 advantage.
  • In the bottom of the sixth, Xavier threatened with runners on the corners and tried to score on a wild pitch, but Carapellotti made a perfect toss to Tonas for the out at the plate and prevented a run from scoring. However, Xavier scored two runs on one swing and reclaimed the lead 8-7.
  • Georgetown threatened again in the seventh, loading the bases for the second-straight frame and tying the game on an RBI fielder's choice by Ciufo (8-8).
  • The Musketeers took the lead again in the home half of the seventh on a two-run homer (10-8).
  • GU threatened again in the eighth, putting runners on second and third but Xavier worked out of trouble and kept the Hoyas off the board. 
  • In the bottom of the eighth, Xavier extended its lead to eight with a six-run frame before shutting the door on the Hoyas in the ninth (16-8).
 
OF NOTE
  • The Hoyas became the 15th different Division I program to smack eight or more grand slams in a single-season in NCAA history.
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