The University of Dayton baseball team fell to George Washington in the series finale on Sunday by a score of 17-2. The Flyers are now 7-15 overall with a 1-2 mark in the Atlantic 10, while the Colonials improve to 15-12 overall and 5-1 in conference.
KEY MOMENT
George Washington busted the game open in the top of the fourth. The Colonials' lead stood at just 2-1 entering the fourth, but Mark Osis opened the inning with a walk and two of the next three batters hit doubles to extend the lead to 4-1. Colin Brophy drew a two-out walk at the plate and Isaiah Pasteur followed with a three-run home run the next at-bat. The Colonials tacked on two additional runs to bring the score to 9-1 before heading into the bottom half of the inning.
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SCORING BREAKDOWN
Bottom 1st
- ECHOLS, C. singled to third base, bunt, RBI; SMITH, B. advanced to second; MEEHAN, P. scored, unearned. Dayton 1, George Washington 0
Top 2nd:
- D'Alessandro grounded out to ss, RBI; Cosentino, M advanced to third; Fassnacht, N scored. George Washington 1, Dayton 1
Top 3rd:
- Barmakian, S flied out to lf, SAC, RBI; Pasteur, I. scored, unearned. George Washington 2, Dayton 1
Top 4th:
- Cosentino, M grounded out to 3b, RBI; Osis, M. scored. George Washington 3, Dayton 1
- D'Alessandro doubled to right field, RBI; Fassnacht, N scored. George Washington 4, Dayton 1
- Pasteur, I. homered to center field, 3 RBI; Brophy, C. scored; D'Alessandro scored. George Washington 7, Dayton 1
- Osis, M. doubled to right field, 2 RBI; Metz, R. scored; Barmakian, S scored. George Washington 9, Dayton 1
Bottom 4th:
- TIROTTA, R. doubled to center field, out at third c to 3b, RBI; ECHOLS, C. scored. George Washington 9, Dayton 2
Bottom 6th:
- Barmakian, S tripled down the rf line, RBI; Brophy, C. scored. George Washington 10, Dayton 2
- Metz, R. flied out to cf, SAC, RBI; Barmakian, S scored. George Washington 11, Dayton 2
Bottom 7th:
- D'Alessandro singled to left field, RBI; Cosentino, M scored. George Washington 12, Dayton 2
Bottom 8th:
- Cosentino, M singled through the left side, 2 RBI; Fassnacht, N advanced to second; Osis, M. scored; Barmakian, S scored. George Washington 14, Dayton 2
- D'Alessandro reached on an error by cf, advanced to second; Cosentino, M advanced to third; Fassnacht, N scored, unearned. George Washington 15, Dayton 2
Bottom 9th:
- Metz, R. doubled down the rf line, RBI; Pasteur, I. scored. George Washington 16, Dayton 2
- Osis, M. singled through the right side, RBI; Metz, R. scored. George Washington 17, Dayton 2
NOTABLE STATS
- Pat Meehan went 1-for-3 at the plate today and scored a run off a Connor Echols safety squeeze in the first inning to give Dayton a 1-0 lead.
- Echols finished with a team-high two hits and scored the Flyers only other run of the game when Riley Tirotta hit a ball off the wall in center field for an RBI double
- Drew Reckart started the game in right field for the Flyers – his first career starts
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UP NEXT
 Dayton will host Fort Wayne at Woerner Field on Tuesday at 3 p.m.
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