Baseball Wins Pitching Duel With Hartford, 3-1
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (April
3, 2007)
— Two University of Connecticut baseball team pitchers
combined to throw a two-hitter as the Huskies defeated in-state foe
Hartford, 3-1, Tuesday afternoon from Campus Field.
UConn starting pitcher Robert
Van Woert (Johnson City, N.Y.) earned his fourth win of the
season after allowing no runs on just one hit while striking out
four in seven innings on the hill. Van Woert failed to give up
a Hartford hit until the sixth inning, and allowed just two runners
to reach second base.
Freshman Will Musson
(Wethersfield, Conn.) pitched the final two frames and allowed one
run on one hit to record his first collegiate save.
Hartford (3-16) reliever Zach
Stefka (0-1) suffered the loss after allowing one run on one hit in
one inning of mound duty. Hawk starting pitcher Ben Sobocinski
pitched three perfect innings to start the game before giving way to
the Hartford bullpen.
After four straight scoreless
innings, UConn scored the first run of the game in the top of the
fifth as the Huskies capitalized on a Hartford error. Senior
shortstop Dennis Donovan (Center Moriches, N.Y.) led off the
inning with a single through the left side and took second on a wild
pitch. After junior Matt Karl (Wallingford, Conn.) drew
a walk, senior Larry Day (Amesbury, Mass.) advanced both
runners with a sacrifice bunt. The following play, Donovan
gave the Huskies a 1-0 lead as he scored when Erik Turgeon's
(Palm Harbor, Fla.) grounder was booted by Hawk shortstop Brady
Stouffer.
UConn (13-12) added a second run
in the top of the seventh inning to up its lead to 2-0. Karl
opened the inning with a double into right-center to extend his
hitting streak to six games. After taking third on a fly out
to the outfield, Karl came home when freshman Harold Brantley Jr.
(Silver Spring, Md.) singled into right field.
The Huskies tacked on an
insurance run in the bottom of the eighth inning as junior left
fielder Pat Mahoney (Des Moines, Iowa) hit his first home run
of the season.
Hartford scored its only run of
the game in the bottom of the eighth as second baseman Adam Bowser
delivered an RBI single.
UConn returns to action Thursday
afternoon at 3:00 p.m. when the Huskies travel to Rutgers to begin a
three-game BIG EAST series.
Connecticut 3, Hartford 1 (Apr 03, 2007 at West
Hartford, CT)
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Connecticut......... 000 010 110 - 3 6 0 (13-12)
Hartford............ 000 000 010 - 1 2 2 (3-16)
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Pitchers: Connecticut - VAN WOERT, Robert; MUSSON, Will(8). Hartford
- Sobocinski,B;
Moraski(4); Stefka(5); Flaherty(6); Toomey(7); Bloch(8); Perry,
K(9).
Win-VAN WOERT, Robert(4-1) Save-MUSSON, Will(1) Loss-Stefka(0-1)
T-2:38 A-43
HR UCONN - MAHONEY, Pat (1).
Game: CONN0403 -UCONN-
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