Xavier University Athletics
Xavier University
0-1
Clemson
1-0
Baseball Falls at No. 9 Clemson in Season Opener
02.16.24 | Baseball
Musketeers and Tigers play game two of three on Saturday at 2 PM
Xavier took a 2-0 lead in the first inning after getting the first four batters aboard, with Garrett Schultz scoring on a passed ball and Matthew DePrey coming home on a sac fly from Connor Misch.
The Tigers responded with a seven-run bottom of the frame, and added runs in the third and fourth to take a 12-2 lead. After Clemson stretched the lead to ten, Xavier's defense didn't allow another Tiger hit until the eighth, when Clemson added a pair of runs to the lead. The Musketeers drove another run across in the top of the ninth, with Aedan Anderson scoring on a Grant Stephenson single to set the final score at 14-3.
The three-game series continues on Saturday, with game two set to begin at 2:00 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
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- Grant Stephenson drove in an RBI on a ninth-inning double.
- Connor Misch picked up an RBI with a sac fly in the first inning.
- Matthew DePrey went 2-4 at the plate, scoring a run in the first inning.
- Garrett Schultz finished with a run scored after getting on base on an error in the first.
- Aedan Anderson also scored a run, coming home in the ninth inning after getting on with a walk.
- Tyler DeMartino got aboard every time he came to the plate, going 1-1, with a double, and getting on twice with a hit by a pitch.
- Luke Hoskins made the start, allowing seven runs on nine hits in 2.0 innings, finishing with a pair of strikeouts.
- Terry Murray entered in the third, going 2.0 innings, allowing five runs on four hits, walking three and striking out two.
- Eli Bridenthal came in the fifth, not allowing a hit or a run in 2.0 innings of work. He finished with two strikeouts to one walk.
- Ashton Chronister pitched the seventh inning, going 1.0 scoreless inning in his collegiate debut, not allowing a hit or a walk and picking up a strikeout.
- Eric Podgorny entered for the eight inning, allowing tow runs on one hit and a pair of walks in 0.1 inning.
- Jack Niedringhaus entered with one out and the bases loaded in the eighth, getting the Musketeers out of the inning with a 6-4-3 double play.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Billy Barlow (1-0)
L: Hoskins, Luke (0-1)
Batting:
2B: DeMartino, Tyler 1
RBI: Misch, Connor 1 ; Stephenson, Grant 1
SF: Misch, Connor 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Schultz, Garrett 1 ; DePrey, Matthew 1 ; Anderson, Aedan 1
HBP: DeMartino, Tyler 2
Batting:
2B: Cam Cannarella 1
HR: Alden Mathes 1 ; Cooper Blauser 1 ; Nolan Nawrocki 1
RBI: Cam Cannarella 3 ; Alden Mathes 4 ; Cooper Blauser 1 ; Nathan Hall 1 ; Nolan Nawrocki 4 ; Jacob Hinderleider 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cam Cannarella 1 ; Will Taylor 1 ; Blake Wright 1 ; Alden Mathes 2 ; Jimmy Obertop 2 ; Andrew Ciufo 2 ; Cooper Blauser 2 ; Jacob Jarrell 1 ; Nolan Nawrocki 2
HBP: Will Taylor 1 ; Jack Crighton 1 ; Jacob Hinderleider 1
