Baseball Weekend Series @ Kennesaw State

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Unable to post last night as I went straight from the game to the Billy Joel concert in town. Turned out to be a great day. Kay was absolutely dominant. KSU maybe hit 2 balls out of the infield the entire 8+ innings. Once again felt like the batters were very patient at the plate. Davey and McDowell both hit bombs over the left field fence. Vinny Siena is seeing the ball very well as he seems to be ripping everything to left field on a line. The defense was great, turned a couple of double plays and Daniello had a nice bear hand scoop and throw out on a bunt attempt. They added a few stolen bases and as a whole just look really sharp these first 2 games.
Hopefully can get the sweep today. I think the cold temps down here are helping to our advantage as well.
Will try to take a few pictures today and get them posted out here. Haven't done it before so will see how it goes. I had a few KSU fans come up to me after the game and say UConn looks very good so we know the opposition is impressed.

 

[huskymedic]

UConnBaseball1:05pm via TweetDeck
End 4 | Kennesaw State 2, #UConn 0. Owls score a pair of unearned runs with RBI groundouts after a Husky error.

 

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Another Blake Davey homer. Kennesaw lead cut to 2-1 in the top of the 6th.

 

[dbmill]

Tabakman in trouble in the bottom of the sixth. Kennesaw State now leading 6-1.

 

[huskymedic]

UConnBaseball 1:33pm via TweetDeck
End 6 | Kennesaw State 6, #UConn 1. Alex Liquori puts the Owls up by five with a three-run home run in the B6.

 

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With UConn trailing 6-1 going into the bottom of the 7th, Max Slade is coming in to get some work out of the bullpen.

 

[huskymedic]

UConnBaseball2:07pm via TweetDeck
FINAL | Kennesaw State 6, #UConn 1. Huskies (4-5) drop the series finale but take two of three at KSU (6-4) over the weekend. #BleedBlue

Sweep would have been nice but winning the series and playing solid is a nice weekend.

 

[huskymedic]

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-basebl/recaps/030115aaa.html

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Up next, UConn heads to the Sunshine State for the third time this season when it takes on Florida International in a three-game set in Miami. The Huskies and Panthers will begin their weekend series on Friday, March 6 at 6 p.m.

 

[mets1090]

Kennesaw State has a 3 game series with UAB this weekend in Kennesaw. UAB holds an 8-2 record (sweeps of WMU and Savannah State as well as 2 out of 3 against Ohio State). Hopefully KSU can take 2 out of 3 or sweep so as to bolster UConn's SOS and number of quality wins.

FAU is 9-2 after sweeping Monmouth (Monmouth is now 0-6, but FAU did outscore them 29-5) so that sweep will hopefully not end up as 3 bad losses. Hard to find silver lining in being swept but UConn had 2 losses by 1 run each including one in extra innings. If FAU turns out to be a legitimate top 30 team that's encouraging, especially factoring in the normal early season funk UConn has due to playing inside all winter.