Terps Drop 10-5 Decision To UConn In NCAA Regionals – University of Maryland Athletics

COLLEGE PARK, MD –– No. 15 seed Maryland dropped a 10-5 determination to UConn in its second sport on the Faculty Park Regional of the NCAA Event on Saturday evening earlier than the second consecutive sellout crowd of three,000 at Bob ‘Turtle’ Smith Stadium.  The Terps (46-13) will subsequent play on Sunday at 1 p.m., towards Wake Forest (41-18-1) in an elimination sport. The winner will play UConn (48-13) at 7 p.m., on Sunday evening. 

Ian Petrutz (2-for-4) continued his torrid play as he homered and drove in 4 runs giving him 9 RBIs in two NCAA Event video games with a pair of homers.  Matt Shaw additionally went 2-for-4 for the Terps. Kevin Keister hit a solo dwelling run for Maryland, his tenth of the 12 months. 

Maryland rallied from an early 2-0 deficit as the primary two UConn batters of the sport homered. The Terps tied the sport at two within the fifth solely to see UConn regain the lead within the backside of the inning at 3-2. The Huskies’ Matt Donlan hit a three-run homer within the seventh to place them up 6-2. 

Maryland starter Jason Savacool recovered after permitting these opening homers to toss six innings permitting only one run and 5 hits after that. He completed with 5 strikeouts. 

Breaking Down The Motion
• UConn opened the sport with back-to-back homers by David Smith and Erik Inventory to take a 2-0 lead after the primary inning. 
•  Keister blasted a solo dwelling run to proper discipline to chop the UConn lead in half at 2-1, within the prime of the third. 
• Maryland tied the sport at 2-2 within the backside of the fifth as Petrutz single to heart introduced dwelling Maxwell Costes from second. UConn challenged the decision on the plate as Costes slide in below the tag of Matt Donlan. The decision stood as a run scored. 
• The Huskies regained the lead at 3-2 on a fielder’s selection by Ben Huber that introduced dwelling Inventory within the backside of the fifth. 
• Donlan’s two-out, three-run homer to left centfield gave UConn a 6-2 lead within the backside of the seventh. 
• Zach Bushling hit a two-run homer within the backside of the eighth to make it 8-2, UConn. Casey Dana’s double off the centerfield wall scored a ninth run and Huber’s RBI single scored Dana for a 10-2 benefit. 
• Petrutz smashed a three-run homer within the prime of the ninth to attract the Terps inside three at 10-5. 

Numbers To Know
• 7: Keister’s homer prolonged his hitting streak to seven video games (8-for-27) batting .296 over the span. 
• 10: Keister turned the seventh Terp to sizzling 10 dwelling runs this season together with his blast within the third inning. 
• 10: Shliger prolonged his hit streak to 10 video games going 18-for-43, for a mean of .419. 
• 11: Over his final 11 video games, Petrutz is on a 19-for-46 stretch (.413) with 25 RBIs. 
• 13: Costes now has a 13-game hit streak hitting 21-for-54 and common of .389. 
• 19: Shaw had his nineteenth multi-hit sport of the season with two hits. 
• 20: Shliger had his twentieth double of the season within the third inning to tie for fifth all-time in a season at Maryland. 
• 100: Savacool turned the sixth Terp hurler to throw 100 of extra innings in a season as he handed the century mark bu finishing the primary inning. He now has 105.1 innings pitched this season. 
• 100: Savacool threw 100 or extra pitches in a video games for the seventh time this season ending with seven. 
• 122: Savacool moved to fourth in single-season strikeouts as he fanned 5 within the sport. He now has 122 to maneuver previous Eric Milton (118 in 1996) for fourth. Subsequent on the record at No. 3 is Steve Schmoll (124 in 2003) 
• 649: Maryland set its single-season report for hits in a season surpassing the previous report of 649 set in 2002 with 10 within the sport. 

Up Subsequent
• Maryland will subsequent play on Sunday  at 1 p.m., when the Terps will tackle Wake Forest in an elimination sport. The sport will air on an ESPN Community to be introduced and the Maryland Baseball Community. 
• UConn will play the winner of the day sport on Sunday evening at 7 p.m. 
• Tickets for each of Sunday’s video games might be bought right here.