UB Baseball Ties At Southern Connecticut, 3-3, In Game Called After Eight Innings Due To Darkness

New Haven, Conn.-The visiting University of Bridgeport Purple Knights and the host Southern Connecticut State Owls played to a 3-3 non-conference baseball tie on Tuesday afternoon in a game that was called due to darkness after eight innings.  UB is now 2-2-1 overall, and SCSU moves to 3-2-1 on the season.

The Owls grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second inning, but the Purple Knights came back to take a 2-1 in the fourth when junior Justin Carey (Amherst, Mass.) drove in two runs with a triple.  Carey would also double in the game.

SCSU tied the game with an unearned run in the bottom of the sixth, but UB would again move ahead by one run at 3-2, when senior Alec Jannotta (Branford, Conn.) drew a bases loaded walk with two outs in the top of the seventh.

Unfortunately for Bridgeport fans, Southern Connecticut State plated another unearned run with darkness falling and two outs in the bottom eighth inning, which turned out to be the last frame of action.

Junior Casey Ouellette (New Canaan, Conn.) also had two hits on the day for UB.

Bridgeport starting pitcher Ray Kreiger (Jr., Derby, Conn.) pitched well in his first start of the 2016 season working five innings in which he allowed only two hits and one run, as he struck out two and walked three.

Up next, the Purple Knights begin their annual Spring Trip to Florida with a game on Saturday at noon versus Bentley University, which will be played at the University of Tampa.