Baseball Drops 8-3 Decision at Home to UMass on Tuesday
Senior Pat Epps homered and drove in two but the Central Connecticut baseball team dropped an 8-3 decision at home on Tuesday afternoon. The homer for Epps is the 27th of his career, extending his school record. The Blue Devils are now 17-14-1 overall on the season.
Senior Pat Epps
homered and drove in two but the Central Connecticut baseball team
dropped an 8-3 decision at home on Tuesday afternoon. The homer
for Epps is the 27th of his career, extending his school record.
The Blue Devils are now 17-14-1 overall on the season.
UMass scored in each of the first three innings, taking a 6-0 lead
after three. They posted one in the first, two in the second and
three in the third.
Epps got the Blue Devils on the board in the fourth inning with a
two-run home run over the left field fence. It was his second home
run of the season. Junior Mitch
Wells added an RBI groundout in the bottom of the eighth inning
to cut the lead to 6-3.
The Minutemen scored two runs in the ninth inning to push the lead
to 8-3, the eventual final score.
Central used five pitchers in the game. Donny
Crook took the loss, pitching the first two innings and
allowing four hits and three runs. Nate
Sturgis pitched three shutout inning for the Blue Devils,
allowing two hits and striking out four.
Epps had his home run and two RBI. Freshman J.P.
Sportman and Anthony
Turgeon each had two hits for Central in the loss.
The Blue Devils return to action on Thursday hosting Fairleigh
Dickinson in a Northeast Conference game beginning at 3 p.m.
