BSB Loses Pitcher's Duel on Opening Day at No. 5/16 Virginia, 2-1

Friday, February 19

Charlottesville, VA

3:00 PM

University of Connecticut

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University of Virginia

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Connecticut

Virginia

BSB Loses Pitcher's Duel on Opening Day at No. 5/16 Virginia, 2-1

2/19/2021 9:06:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The UConn baseball team opened the 2021 baseball season against No. 5/16 Virginia on the wrong side of a quality pitcher's duel.

Ben Casparius made his UConn debut on the mound and was solid for the Huskies with 5.2 innings of work, allowing just four hits, two earned, one walk and six strikeouts.

Sam Favieri and Kenneth Haus followed with 2.1 scoreless frames to give the Huskies a chance at a comeback.

Trailing 2-0 going into the seventh, 2 YR FR Reggie Crawford belted his first home run of the season, a solo shot, to get the Huskies within a run.

The Frackville, Pa. native recorded two of the Huskies three hits on Friday afternoon.

UConn threatened Virginia ace Andrew Abbott in the opening frame with two lengthy at-bats for Zach Bushling and Erik Stock that resulted in a single and walk to place two-on with none out. However a double play ball and strikeout ended the best threat of the day for UConn.

The Huskies will look to even the series tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. on the ACC Network

Game Notes

The Huskies only secured three hits on Opening Day against the Virginia Cavaliers. UConn logged only two hits against Cal Poly on Opening Day in 2020.
Reggie Crawford has reached base in all 14 games he has played in a UConn uniform.
Nine of Crawford's 18 career hits have gone for extra bases (seven doubles and two homers).
The Huskies are 4-14 since 2004 in season openers. Despite that, the Huskies have won 30 games or more in 13 of 16 completed seasons during that stretch.
2 YR FR Sam Favieri and Chris Brown made their UConn debuts on Friday.