The George Mason baseball team was unable to salvage
the final game of its three-game series at Hofstra on Sunday afternoon as the
Pride rode a 10-run third inning to a 13-5 win over the Patriots. Mason held
the Pride off the board for the final four innings but that third inning was
too much for Mason to overcome as the Patriots fell to 15-22-1 on the year,
3-15 in the CAA. Hofstra improved to 9-20, 8-10.
Blaise Fernandez
was 3 for 5, Brig Tison
extended
his hitting streak to 17-straight and Brandon Lindsay, Neight Hoffa
and Brandon
Kuter pitched five innings in relief combining to allow no runs and just four
hits. But starter T.J. O'Grady
, and relievers Sean Cabrera
, Michael Bowiw and
Jake Kleine
allowed 13 runs on 12 hits in just three innings of work. Danny
Poma had four hits and two steals while Matt Reistetter and Dylan Nasiatka each
had three hits for Hoftra.
The Pride got on the board in the first when Matt
Reistetter walked with one out, went to third on a Danny Poma double and scored
on a Jared Hammer ground out. Mason, which had a two-out triple in the first
but couldn't score, used back-to-back two-out walks to threaten in the second
but Jordan Hill
struck out looking to end the threat. The Patriots made the
most of their opportunities in the third, however.
Brig Tison
led off with a single, Dan Schafferman
followed with a walk and Blaise Fernandez
tied the game with a single to right.
Schafferman went to third on that play on an error by Taylor Stuart and scored on
a Shane Davis
fielder's choice.
That set the stage for Hofstra's big inning. Singles
by Reistetter and Pomaled off the frame and Jammer was hit by a pitch to laod
the bases. Je Perez followed with a sacrifice fly to tie the game at 2-2. Matt
Ford and Dylan Nasiatka followed with back-to-back singles to make it 4-2 and
end T.J. O'Grady
's outing. Sean Cabrera
came on in relief and Ford scored on a
balk. Kenny Jackson followed with a fly ball to center and Schafferman's error on
the ball allowed Nasiatka to score. After a Logan Davis ground out, Taylor
Stuart followed with a wind-aided RBI single to left and Reistetter doubled to
right to make it 8-2. After another pitching change that brought on Michael
Bowie, Poma singled to drive in two and Hammer followed with a homer t make it
11-2.
More runs came home in the fourth, Jake Kleine
gave
up a leadoff homer to Jackson and after falling behind 3-0 to Davis, was lifted
for reliver Brandon Lindsey
. Lindsey allowed Davis, Stuart and Resitetter to
reach on walks but after a sacrifice fly by Poma, he got a double play ball to
keep it at 13-2. In the top of the fifth, Shane Davis
hit a one-out double,
Nick Allen
singled and Jake Kalish
put a ball up the middle to make it 13-3.
Hill followed with a two-out single to make it a nine-run game.
The Patriots added one more run in the eighth when,
with two outs, Schafferman and Fernandez singled to put runners on the corners
and a wild pitch made it 13-5.
The Patriots return to action on Wednesday when they
host Rider at Spuhler Field at 3 p.m.
