University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
UNC Asheville
5-11
Georgia State
9-7
Bulldogs Fall to Georgia State Wednesday
03.11.2020 | Baseball
The Bulldogs got on the board first as they scored one run in the top of the first. Greg Gasparro led off the game with a double to right-center and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Sebastian Dunn. Gasparro then scored the first run of the game as he slid in on a passed ball.
The Panthers answered in the bottom half of the inning as they scored two runs on three hits to take an early lead.
The back and forth battle continued into the second as UNC Asheville snagged the lead back. Easton Jones led off with a walk and scored on a two-run homerun to left off of the bat of PJ Heintz to left. Will Barbour and Wade Chandler both reached on back to back singles and Barbour came into score on a Gasparro sacrifice fly as the Bulldogs took a 4-2 lead going into the bottom of the second inning.
Georgia State added two more runs in the bottom of the second to tie the game up at four.
Neither team was able to push a run across in the third as the Bulldogs took a 5-4 lead in the top of the fourth. Heintz led off with a single and came around the score a few batters later on a sacrifice fly from Dunn.
Georgia State evened the score with a single run in the fifth and then took the lead with a three run sixth inning and two run seventh inning to lead 10-5 as the game went into the eighth inning.
The Bulldogs got a couple of those runs back in the top of the eighth as Heintz led once again led off the inning with a single. The right-handed hitting catcher then scored on a throwing error and Barbour, who reached on a walk, scored on a sacrifice fly from Gasparro to bring the Bulldogs within three.
Unfortunately, that's all the Bulldogs could get as Georgia State shut them down in the ninth to secure the 10-7 victory for the Panthers.
The Bulldogs will take on Gardner-Webb in a three-game series this weekend with game one starting at 6 p.m. Friday in Boiling Springs, N.C.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Lutz, Duncan (1-0)
L: Serricchio, Tyler (0-2)
S: Landry, Camren (1)
Batting:
2B: Gasparro, Greg 1 ; Lankford, Brandon 1
HR: Heintz, PJ 1
RBI: Gasparro, Greg 2 ; Dunn, Sebastian 1 ; Heintz, PJ 2 ; Chandler, Wade 1
SH: Dunn, Sebastian 1
SF: Gasparro, Greg 2 ; Dunn, Sebastian 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Gasparro, Greg 1 ; Jones, Easton 1 ; Heintz, PJ 3 ; Barbour, Will 2
SB: Freeberger, Dominic 1
HBP: Gasparro, Greg 1 ; Freeberger, Dominic 1 ; Heintz, PJ 1
Batting:
2B: Merejo, Elian 1 ; Mize, Will 1 ; Deas, Daino 1
HR: Glass, Ryan 1
RBI: Puckett, Kalen 2 ; Cheney, Griffin 1 ; Merejo, Elian 1 ; Smith, Josh 1 ; Mize, Will 1 ; Glass, Ryan 1 ; Davies, Dalton 2
SH: Cheney, Griffin 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Puckett, Kalen 1 ; Cheney, Griffin 2 ; Merejo, Elian 1 ; Deas, Daino 2 ; Glass, Ryan 3 ; Riesselmann, Kyle 1
SB: Puckett, Kalen 1 ; Cheney, Griffin 1 ; Merejo, Elian 1
CS: Cheney, Griffin 1 ; Smith, Josh 1
HBP: Glass, Ryan 1
PO: Smith, Josh 1
