WASHINGTON – The Georgetown University baseball team rolled the Creighton Bluejays 13-1 at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in seven innings. The Hoyas improve to 21-16 and 5-4 in conference action while the Bluejays fall to 15-14 and 3-3 in conference play. This is the first time the Hoyas won the series against the Bluejays at home and the first time winning the series since 2018.
ON THE RECORD
"What a great performance by our team. What a great job by our guys this week going 4-1 and winning our first ever home series against Creighton was special.
Jake Bloss was outstanding today giving us a great chance early on and finished the job going all seven innings.
Michael Eze again had the big home run to put us up in the fourth and that is all we needed. The fifth inning was what our offense can be, and we didn't try to do too much and we took what they gave us. Just a great offensive day and the middle of the lineup was stellar. We played clean defense and overall, just really pleased with our team's performance. Proud of our organization and our guys and how we stuck with it this week. It was a long week with five games and Creighton is a good ball team that is really well coached, and we knew it was going to be a challenge so I am just really proud of this group. We look forward to getting ready to go on Wednesday for a midweek against Mount St. Mary's." - Head Coach
Edwin Thompson
HOYA HIGHLIGHTS
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The first frame was scoreless for both sides. In the second, the Bluejays hit a solo home run for the first tally of the game. In the bottom half of the inning, Kretzschmar hit his seventh home run of the season, tying the game at one all.
- The third frame was scoreless for both sides. Bloss was feeling it early, recording five strikeouts in the first three innings.
- The Hoyas held Creighton to no hits and no runs in the top of the fourth. In the bottom half of the inning, Eze hit a two-run shot to left field for the second consecutive day giving the Hoyas a 3-1 lead.
- Bloss continued to dominate in the fifth allowing only one hit to the Bluejays. In the bottom of the inning, the Hoya offense found its stride putting up 10 runs on eight hits. Bowker and Lopez each had doubles and Hyde, Eze, Ficca and Kretzschmar all hit singles.
- The sixth frame was scoreless for both sides. In the seventh, Bloss finished the Bluejays off allowing no runs and picking up his fourth win of the season on the mound as the Hoyas run ruled the Bluejays.
OF NOTE
- This is the first time the Hoyas have won the series against Cregihton at home.
- The last series win for GU was in 2018 in Omaha.
- Eze has homers in back-to-back games.
- Bloss pitched his first complete game of the season.
UP NEXT
Georgetown will be back in action on Wednesday as Mount St. Mary's comes to town for a midweek matchup. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy. A live stats and stream link will be available on GUHoyas.com.
