Baseball Drops Series Opener at UCF

Friday, March 3

Orlando, Fla.

6 PM

Georgia Southern University

5-4

UCF

8-1

Georgia Southern

UCF

Photo by: AJ Henderson - Georgia Southern Athletics

3/3/2023 9:22:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Game two will take place at 4 p.m. from Orlando, Fla.

By: Graham Cooper

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Georgia Southern baseball team fell 6-4 to the UCF Knights in game one of a three-game tilt on Friday night at John Euliano Park. The two squads will reconvene for game two on Saturday, March 4, at 4 p.m.

Georgia Southern (5-4) came out of the game hot, scoring in the top of the first inning from a Noah Ledford groundout, scoring Jarrett Brown. In the top of the third inning, the Eagles would triple its lead thanks to a Sam Blancato RBI-single that plated Jesse Sherrill and another Ledford groundout, scoring Brown again. pulling ahead by as much as 4-0 in the top of the fourth inning, when Sherrill's sacrifice bunt scored Blake Evans to take the 4-0 lead. Three of the Eagles' four runs were scored on sacrifice plays.

The Knights (8-1) would begin to chip away at the Eagles lead in the bottom of the fourth inning with a solo homer to left field. In the bottom of the sixth inning, a. two-run homer would narrow the gap to a 4-3 Eagles lead. In the bottom of the ninth inning, a UCF RBI-single down the left field line would tie the game, and a two-run homer to right field would end the night with a 6-4 UCF win.

UP NEXT
The Eagles and the Knights will play in the second game of the series on Saturday, March 4. First pitch from John Euliano Park is set for 4 p.m. Tomorrow's radio broadcast will be an Internet-only broadcast.