April 11, 2008
Washington, D.C. - The Georgetown University baseball team (12-18, 3-10) suffered their fourth-straight conference loss on Friday afternoon, 22-10, to Rutgers (10-19, 3-7). The Blue and Gray allowed the first seven runs of the game in the second inning but did not give up in their pursuit of a win, cutting the Scarlet Knight lead at one point to 8-7. However, the Hoyas allowed 11 runs in the eighth inning and took the loss. Trailing 8-4 in the seventh, freshman Sean Lamont hit his first homer of the game to start a GU rally. With one out, junior Kelly Muir walked and sophomore Dan Capeless followed with a single to center. Freshman Billy Henig strode to the plate as a pinch-hitter, singled to right-center, and cut the deficit to 8-6. After sophomore Tommy Lee's RBI single made it a one-run game, a failed double steal resulted in Henig being picked off third. During the same at-bat, Elliott flew out to right to end the inning. The Hoyas started to chip away at Rutgers' lead in the second when Lee tripled to right-center and plated Muir with the first GU run of the game. Lee came home on the next play, a RBI single from sophomore Tom Elliott. In the third, Capeless drove in senior Matt Harrigan, who had reached base on a fielding error by the Rutgers shortstop with two outs. Then in the fourth, a sacrifice fly from freshman Erick Fernandez scored Lee and cut the Scarlet Knight lead in half, 8-4. Georgetown scored three times over the final two frames. First, Lamont and Harrigan went back-to-back with solo homers in the eighth and then Elliott picked up a RBI groundout in the ninth, scoring Henig.
Sophomore Tim Adleman allowed four earned runs over 5 2/3 innings and was saddled with the loss. Sophomores Alex Meyer, Jack Bender and Billy Concannon came on in relief The Hoyas will play Rutgers again tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. Hoya Blue will be sponsoring free food and drinks at a pre-game BBQ while other refreshments will be on sale inside the ball park. |
