Baseball Battles to Take Opener at Fordham, 5-3

Friday, April 20

Bronx, NY

3:00 PM

George Washington University

21-16, 0

Fordham

22-13-1, 0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
George Washington	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	5	15	2
Fordham	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	7	1

4/20/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

April 20, 2018

Box Score

BRONX, N.Y. - Senior Isaiah Pasteur set the program record with a hit in his 25th consecutive game and the George Washington baseball team rallied to knock off Fordham, 5-3, in 11 innings on Friday afternoon at Houlihan Park.

Key Stats

Pasteur wasted no time in making history. He led off the top of the first with a base hit to break Joey Bartosic's record. He finished the day 3-for-6 at the plate with a double and one run.

Sophomore Jaret Edwards was in total control in the early going, carrying a no-hitter into the seventh inning. He did not factor into the decision but produced an impressive final line of 8.1 innings, five hits, three runs (only one earned), one walk and two strikeouts.

Junior Will Kobos earned the win out of the bullpen with 2.2 innings of scoreless relief. He allowed only two hits and struck out two with three walks.

Fordham erased a 1-0 deficit with two runs in the bottom of the seventh, but the Colonials regained the lead with a pair of runs in the top of the eighth.

The Rams forced extra innings in the bottom of the ninth, but GW held the home team scoreless after the ninth before plating the winning runs in the top of the 11th.

Sophomore Nate Fassnacht finished 4-for-5 at the plate with one run and one walk.

Steven Barmakian, Mark Osis and Dominic D'Alessandro each contributed a pair of hits.

Scoring

Top 1: GW got right to work with Pasteur's record-setting single to lead off the ball game. He later scored on a RBI groundout by Robbie Metz (GW 1, Fordham 0).

Bottom 7: Fordham picked up its first hit of the day to lead off the seventh and then used an error and a sacrifice bunt to move the runners into scoring position. Both runners scored on a two-run triple (Fordham 2, GW 1).

Top 8: Metz picked up a one-out walk and moved to second on a hit by Fassnacht. D'Alessandro then brought them both home on a two-run double left field (GW 3, Fordham 2).

Bottom 9: A leadoff single later scored on a base hit, but Kobos stranded the bases loaded (GW 3, Fordham 3).

Top 11: Senior Matt Cosentino led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and then advanced to third on a wild pitch. He later scored on an infield RBI single by Barmakian. Osis followed moments later with a key insurance run, picking up a RBI single to make it a two-run lead (GW 5, Fordham 3).

Up Next

GW and Fordham play game two on Saturday at 2 p.m.