Baseball Drops 9-5 Decision on Saturday at George Washington
The Central Connecticut baseball team dropped its third straight game to fall to 3-3 overall this season. CCSU lost 9-5 at George Washington on Saturday afternoon, their second straight loss to the Colonials. Junior Anthony Scialdone drove in two runs for the Blue Devils in the loss. CCSU and George Washington will finish the weekend series with a single game on Sunday at 12 p.m.
The Central Connecticut baseball team dropped its third straight
game to fall to 3-3 overall this season. CCSU lost 9-5 at George
Washington on Saturday afternoon, their second straight loss to the
Colonials. Junior Anthony
Scialdone drove in two runs for the Blue Devils in the loss.
CCSU and George Washington will finish the weekend series with a
single game on Sunday at 12 p.m.
George Washington got on the board first with four runs in the
bottom of the first inning off of Blue Devil starter Taylor
Kosakowski. A two-run, two-out home run by Stephen Oswald
capped the scoring and gave the home team the 4-0 lead.
The Blue Devils took a 5-4 lead with five runs in the top of the
third inning. Scialdone drove in a pair of runs with a double to
left field to make it 4-2.
Senior Casey
Walko singled in a run and junior Tommy
Meade's RBI single tied the score at 4-4. Freshman Mitch
Wells drove in the fifth run of the game for the Blue Devils
and gave CCSU its first lead of the weekend.
Five more runs in the bottom of the fifth inning for the Colonials
gave the home team a 9-5 advantage. Kosakowski was charged with
all nine runs, although only five of those were earned. An error
in the fifth inning led to four unearned runs and the four-run
deficit for the Blue Devils. The senior right pitched six innings
allowing seven hits and striking out three.
Both teams finished the game with nine hits but the Blue Devils
made three errors in the field, helping lead to the unearned runs
in the fifth inning.
Scialdone drove in two runs to lead the offense for CCSU. Sean
Allaire had three hits and Walko, Meade and Wells all drove in
a run in the loss.
The Blue Devils and Colonials will finish the weekend series with a
final game beginning at noon on Sunday.