Baseball Beats Sacred Heart 9-5, Takes Weekend Series
The Central Connecticut State University baseball team won on the road at Sacred Heart on Sunday, 9-5, to take three out of four from the Pioneers over the weekend series. Senior Tommy Meade had two hits and a pair of RBI, and was the winning pitcher, as Central improved to 14-12 overall and 9-7 in Northeast Conference play. Junior Pat Epps drove in three more runs and finished the weekend with eight RBI.
The Central Connecticut State University baseball team won on the road at Sacred Heart on Sunday, 9-5, to take three out of four from the Pioneers over the weekend series. Senior Tommy Meade had two hits and a pair of RBI, and was the winning pitcher, as Central improved to 14-12 overall and 9-7 in Northeast Conference play. Junior Pat Epps drove in three more runs and finished the weekend with eight RBI.
Sacred Heart scored a single run in the first inning to take a
1-0 lead. The Blue Devils answered in the third with four runs to
take a 4-1 lead. Senior Sean Allaire was credited
with an RBI when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Junior Normand
Gosselin scored on a wild pitch to score the second run. Meade
doubled with men on second and third to score two more and make it
4-1.
The lead reached 5-1 on a sacrifice fly by Gosselin, scoring senior
Richie Tri who reached on an
error to lead off the inning.
Sacred Heart cut the lead to 5-4 with a run in the sixth and two
more in the seventh.
Central answered with three in the top of the eighth to stretch the
lead to 8-4. Epps hit a two-run home run, his third of the week
and sixth of the season. Senior Kyle Zarotney added a
sacrifice fly for the third run of the inning.
Sacred Heart scored one in the eighth, but Central added a final
run in the ninth for the 9-5 final. Epps drove in the run with a
fielder's choice, his third RBI of the game and eighth of the
weekend series. He finished the five games last week, including a
win at Holy Cross, with 10 RBI in five games.
Meade picked up the win on the mound, improving to 2-0 on the
season. He pitched seven innings allowing seven hits and only
three earned runs. He struck out six. Roy Natoli pitched the
eighth allowing one run. Zarotney pitched a scoreless ninth, his
third scoreless appearance of the season, without allowing a hit
and striking out one.
Epps had three RBI while Meade added two. Junior Sean
Miller-Jones and sophomore Mitch Wells each had two
hits.
The Blue Devils have a busy week next week. They play Tuesday at
UMass and then at home on Wednesday vs. Fairfield. Next weekend
they host Quinnipiac in a four-game weekend series beginning Friday
at 3 p.m.
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