Baseball Falls in Opener at Saint Louis

Thursday, May 17

Saint Louis, MO

6:00 PM

George Washington University

28-23, 0

Saint Louis

34-17, 0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
George Washington	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	1
Saint Louis Univ.	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	2	X	7	13	1

Dominic D'Alessandro drove in three runs on a pair of doubles in GW's 11-6 win over La Salle on Friday.

5/17/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

May 17, 2018

Box Score

SAINT LOUIS - The George Washington baseball team got on the board first in Thursday's series opener at Saint Louis, but the Billikens scored seven unanswered runs to take game one, 7-1, on Friday night at the BIlliken Sports Center.

Key Stats

Steven Barmakian and Brandon Chapman both led the Colonials with two-hit performances.
Junior Dominic D'Alessandro hit his sixth home run of the season to give GW an early 1-0 lead.
Sophomore starter Jaret Edwards got off to a good start, limiting Saint Louis to two runs over his first five innings of work. He ran into trouble in the seventh, allowing a pair of runs before being lifted. A third run came in to score after his exit.
Saint Louis added two more runs in the eighth to extend the lead to 7-1.

Scoring
Top 2: D'Alessandro lined a 2-1 pitch over the wall in right-center field for his sixth round tripper of the season (GW 1, SLU 0).
Bottom 3: The Billikens tied the game on a solo home run (GW 1, SLU 1).
Bottom 5: Another solo home run by Saint Louis scored what turned out to be the winning run (SLU 2, GW 1).
Bottom 7: Saint Louis plated three runs on a RBI double and a pair of run-scoring singles (SLU 5, GW 1).
Bottom 8: The final two runs scored on a RBI triple, followed by a RBI single (SLU 7, GW 1).

Up Next
GW and Saint Louis will play game two on Friday. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET.