Huskies Stave Off Elimination, 10-2, vs. Harvard

Saturday, June 1

Oklahoma City, Okla. - Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark

2:00 PM

University of Connecticut

37-24

Harvard University

27-16

UConn

Harvard

6/1/2019 10:22:00 PM | Baseball

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OKLAHOMA CITY – The UConn baseball team rode a seven-run second inning to a 10-2 NCAA elimination game victory against Harvard on Saturday afternoon at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

The UConn (37-24) bats stayed hot by banging out 17 hits and plated 10 runs to eliminate Harvard from the NCAA Tournament and set up another elimination game on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. ET against the loser Oklahoma State/Nebraska.

The Huskies tied a season-high with seven runs in the second inning with six of those runs coming with two outs. Kyler Fedko put the Huskies in front on a sacrifice fly to right field to plate his brother, Christian.

Chris Winkel (two-run single), Anthony Prato (RBI single), Mike Woodworth (two-run triple) and Pat Winkel (RBI single) pushed the UConn lead to 7-0 as the Huskies sent 11 batters to the plate and collected eight hits in the frame.

UConn received five scoreless innings to finish the ballgame from Joe Simeone and Kenny Haus. The sophomore, Simeone, logged three innings and allowed just one hit while striking out a pair.

Haus closed out the ballgame by going six up and six down that featured three strikeouts for the junior right-hander.

Five Huskies recorded multi-hit efforts with Thad Phillips and Anthony Prato both having three-hit efforts. Phillips was a home run shy of the cycle while recording his fourth multi-hit game of the year.

Chris Winkel recorded his team-leading 12^th multi-RBI game with three runs batted in on Saturday.

Notes

With the win, the Huskies have won at least a game in each of their last six NCAA Tournament appearances. UConn is 10-12 in NCAA Tournament games since 2010.
UConn is 8-5 in NCAA elimination games since 2010.
The Huskies 36 hits in the past two games is the most this season in back-to-back games.
Pat Winkel is 6-10 with a home run and three RBIs in the Oklahoma City Regional.
Anthony Prato, Pat Winkel, Christian Fedko and Paul Gozzo have recorded multi-hit contests in both NCAA Tournament games this weekend.
UConn moves to 11-1 against Northeast opponents this season.