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ATHENS, GA – The Winthrop baseball team fell to the Georgia Bulldogs 4-2 on Wednesday evening at Foley Field, in non-conference action.
The Eagles fall to 18-18 on the season, while the Bulldogs improve to 12-25 overall.
Dom Patterozzi (0-3) took the loss on the mound Wednesday pitching 5.0 innings and gave up four runs on 10 hits, one walk and five strikeouts. Chase Hawkins (1-3) earned the victory tossing 3.0 innings and allowed one run on two hits, one walk and two strikeouts. Cooper Moseley (3) picked up the save pitching a scoreless one-third of an inning.
“Dom threw very well tonight,” said head coach Joe Hudak. “He threw his off-speed stuff for strikes. I was really pleased with him.”
Georgia got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning on Zach Cone's RBI sacrifice fly to center field that brought in Peter Verdin, who led off the inning with a double to left field.
Winthrop responded to tie the game at 1-1 in the top of the second after Matt Pierpont drove in Chas Crane with his RBI infield single towards the shortstop, but the Bulldogs answered with two runs in their half of the inning. Kyle Farmer began the inning with a triple down the left field line and scored when Christian Glisson singled to right center field. Glisson later came home on an RBI single into left field by Johnathan Taylor.
Tyler McBride cut the Eagles deficit to 3-2 in the fourth inning on his RBI single to left center field driving in Matt Thielepape from second. Thielepape was hit by a pitch to start the inning and stole second base.
Georgia increased its lead to two runs at 4-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning when Levi Hyams doubled just out of the reach of Thielepape down the right field line. The double plated Verdin as he reached on an infield single in the prior at-bat.
Sean Sullivan led Winthrop at the plate with a 2-for-4 performance, and Pierpont and McBride had both runs batted in. Hyams and Farmer had three hits each for the Bulldogs, while four different players posted an RBI apiece.
The Eagles will be back in action on Friday, April 23 as they host Big South Conference foe Radford at The Winthrop Ballpark. The contest Friday night will be televised on ESPNU (Comporium Cable Channel 206) and will begin at 4:30 p.m.
