8
Winner
Dayton
DAYTON
9-10
2
George Mason
GEORGE M
11-7
2
George Mason
GEORGE M
11-7
Score By Periods
| Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
R |
H |
E |
|
Dayton
DAYTON
|
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
10 |
0 |
|
George Mason
GEORGE M
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
1 |
W: C. PEGUERO (3-2)
L: Rumberg, Logan (1-2)
Box score (PDF)
FAIRFAX, Va. – The George Mason baseball team dropped its Atlantic 10 opener to Dayton, 8-2, on Friday afternoon at Spuhler Field.
THE LEADOFF
- Freshman catcher Andrew Raymond went 4-for-4 including his third home run of the season.
- Sophomore second baseman Toby Hueber had two hits with a double and a triple.
- The Patriots had five extra-base hits in the game.
Dayton (9-10, 1-0) took the lead against George Mason (11-7, 0-1) junior starter
Logan Rumberg in the first. The Flyers loaded the bases with a single, walk and a hit batter and scored a run on a wild pitch and another on a sacrifice fly for a 2-0 advantage.
In the bottom of the second, Raymond hit a leadoff home run over the right field fence off Flyers senior starter Chris Peguero to make it 2-1.
The teams traded runs in the fourth inning.
Flyers junior shortstop Dryenson Wouters hit a leadoff home run off Patriots graduate student
Sam Lavin to increase the lead to 3-1.
With one out in the home half of the inning, Hueber tripled and scored on a single by junior shortstop
Owen Clyne to make it a one-run game at 3-2.
Dayton scored the final five runs of the game.
In the fifth, sophomore left fielder Adin Zone singled and moved to second and third on two wild pitches. He would score on an error to extend the lead to 4-2.
In the sixth, Dayton sent eight batters to the plate and scored three runs on four hits. With the bases loaded, freshman third baseman Rylan Lujo drove in three runs with a double to the gap in left-center to make it 7-2.
The Flyers added a run in the seventh for the 8-2 final score. Two runs are the fewest that the Patriots have scored in a game this season.
For the Patriots, Rumberg (1-2) allowed two runs on one hit and took the loss. Lavin gave up five runs, four earned on eight hits in 4.2 innings. Graduate student
Daniel Elliott allowed one run on one hit in 3.0 innings. Graduate student
Gardner Meeks retired the side in order in the ninth.
For the Flyers, Peguero (3-2) allowed two runs on seven hits in 7.0 innings and earned the win. Sophomore Bennett LaPalm tossed 2.0 innings of one-hit ball.
The Patriots and Flyers wrap up the series with a doubleheader on Saturday with the first pitch for game one scheduled for 11 a.m. at Spuhler Field.
