University of Delaware Athletics
Blue Hens Fall to UNCW 2-1 Despite Hinton's Great Effort
5/23/2018 2:40:00 PM | Baseball
HARRISONBURG, Va. – Despite eight strong innings from junior Kyle Hinton, the University of Delaware baseball program fell 2-1 to UNCW Wednesday afternoon in the opening game of the 2018 CAA Tournament at Veteran Park.
Locked in a pitchers' duel for a majority of the game, the Blue Hens (29-26) and Seahawks (34-20) traded scoreless frames until the top of the fourth when Nick Patten lifted a home run to right field.
The game remained 1-0 Blue Hens until the bottom of the seventh when UNCW tied the game at one on an RBI single. After each team fired a scoreless eighth inning, Delaware went down in order in the top of the ninth.
Locked in a 1-1 battle, Hinton (6-7) returned to the mound for the ninth, issuing a four-pitch lead-off walk. With the lead-off man on first
In defeat, Hinton threw eight-plus innings allowing just six hits and two runs. The righty struck out 10 batters. Junior Erik Bowren went 2-3 at the plate, while Patten went 2-4 with the homer.
The setback places Delaware in the loser's bracket of the double-elimination tournament. Delaware returns to action Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. against the loser of Charleston/Hofstra. The winner of that game will advance to the second round of the tournament (Thursday, 7 p.m.), while the loser will be eliminated.
Head coach Jim Sherman:
“Today we got the pitching that we needed from Kyle, but we didn't get the offense. It wasn't anywhere near as strong as we needed in a tournament game. I tip my hat to UNCW's starter. He matched Kyle pitch-for-pitch today. Someone was going to be excited about winning that game and someone was going to be happy with how they played. Unfortunately for
On tonight's elimination game:
“It's tough jumping into the losers bracket because now we have to play twice today. Fortunately we get a little bit of rest between games as we don't have to play again until 7:00 p.m. Obviously, the team that we
