UConn Earns 5-2 Victory Over Baseball on Saturday
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) baseball team dropped game two of a three-game weekend series, 5-2, to the UConn Huskies in non-conference action on Saturday afternoon at UNCG Baseball Stadium.
The Huskies scored the game's first run when Tyler Minick launched a solo home run over to right-center to start the fourth inning. In the next at bat, Grant MacArthur doubled to left-center before scoring on a single up the middle by Anthony Belisario. Caleb Shpur tacked on two more runs for the Huskies when he hit a two-run triple into the right-field corner. After four frames in the Gate City, UConn led UNCG by a 4-0 margin.
UNCG got on the board in the fifth frame and cut it to 4-1 Huskies when Brantley Truitt scored on an RBI groundout by Luke Holland.
The Spartans cut the deficit to two, 4-2, with a solo home run out to left by Holland in the bottom of the eighth inning. However, the Huskies answered with a solo shot of their own in the ninth, hit by Rob Rispoli out to right to push UConn's lead back to three, 5-2.
That capped the scoring for Saturday's contest in Greensboro. Brady Afthim entered the game out of the pen for the Huskies in the eighth and got them out of a jam before earning his fourth save of the season by closing out the ninth.
NOTES:
- Holland hit his team-leading fourth homer of the season and led with two RBI.
- Jeremy Wolf led the Spartans with three hits.
- Jay Miller and Mayson Dear combined for 13 strikeouts on the mound.
- Miller's line: 5.2 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 2 BB & 8 K
- Dear's line: 3.1 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 0 BB & 5 K
- UNCG left eight runners on base in the contest while UConn finished with nine left aboard.
- Both sides finished with two stolen bases. Brantley Truitt and Trey Truitt each had one stolen bag for the Spartans.
PITCHING RECORDS:
Cayden Suchy: W, 2-3
Jay Miller: L, 1-3
Brady Afthim: Save, 4
RECORDS:
UNCG: 10-12, 0-0 SoCon
UCONN: 9-11, 0-0 BIG EAST
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