Feb. 25, 2005

Box Score

Tyler Youngs and Robby Jacobsen each had three hits and Stacen Gant became George Mason's all-time leader in winning percentage as the Mason baseball team improved to 2-2 on the season after a 9-5 win over UNC Greensboro at the Hughes Brothers Challenge in Wilmington, N.C.

Youngs drove in Jacobsen with the first run of the game in the second inning and the pair team up again in the fourth to tie the score at 2-2. The Patriots exploded for four runs in the fifth as Chris Fournier, Chris Looze, Casey Slattery and Jacobsen each had an RBI.

The Patriots added insurance runs in the sixth when Youngs led off with a single, went to second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a throwing error. Jimmy Freund, who had walked earlier in the inning, scored on a Fournier ground out.

Gant (2-0), meanwhile, was on cruise control. In five and two-thirds innings, he allowed five hits and one earned run. He walked four batters. Gant is now 18-5 at Mason, giving him a .783 winning percentage. He breaks a tie with Edson Hoffman who was 17-5 from 1992-93. Gant is already second on the school's all-time ERA list with a career mark of 3.15, sixth on the school's career strikeout list with 163, and sixth on the all-time innings pitched list with 220.

Phil Stone pitched the final three and one-third innings in relief for Mason to earn his first save of the year. Jacobsen improved his season average to .588. The Patriots are in action again on Saturday morning when they take on Penn State at 11 a.m. Eric Gibbons (0-1) is the scheduled starter for Mason.