GREENSBORO, N.C.- Freshmen duo
Ethan McKay and
Kennedy Jones led the Spartans with a home run in UNC Greensboro (UNCG) baseball team's 8-3 win over the Towson Tigers on Friday evening.
The Tigers scored first with two runs in the top of the first. They held the lead until the fourth inning when
Pres Cavenaugh scored on
Hogan Windish's sacrifice fly.
Zack Budzik tied the game off a single from
Greg Hardison.
The Spartans went back-to-back innings with two-run homers. In the bottom of the fifth, Jones hit his second career home run over the left-center wall that gave UNCG the two-run lead. McKay followed in suit with his first collegiate homerun also over the left-center wall, 6-2.
Dallas Callahan worked the Towson pitcher with an 8-pitch at-bat until he was hit to be put on first. Callahan advanced to third on a ground out by Jones and Cavenaugh. A single from Budzik would score Callahan, 7-2. Budzik would score the Spartan's final run on a single from Windish.
Jared Mathewson started on the mound for the Spartans. He pitched 7.0 innings and allowed two runs. The LHP struck out five, walked one, and allowed seven hits.
Caleb Freeman pitched 1.2 innings and struck out two. RHP
Jake Wolf got the last out for the Spartans with three straight strikes.
RECORDS
UNCG: 4-5, 0-0
Towson: 2-8, 0-0
BY THE NUMBERS
- Budzik and McKay led the Spartans with two runs.
- Jones, Hardison, Cavenaugh, and Callahan scored one run.
- Jones and McKay hit the only home runs of the game.
- McKay and Hardison led with three hits.
- UNCG's pitchers struck out eight batters.
- Mathewson earned his second win of the season.
McKAY ON FIRST COLLEGIATE HOME RUN
"It feels unbelievable. I didn't think [the ball] was going to get out of here, but it did. When I came around third base and saw my teammates really excited for me, being a freshman, that's huge. It was great to see the tunnel and to see all the guys waiting for me to get in."
UPCOMING
UNCG will continue their series against the Towson Tigers tomorrow at 2 p.m. The Spartans will have RHP
Austin Parsley on the mound while Towson will have LHP Teddy Blumeanuer.