Highlights - UConn BSB 11, Xavier 2

The Huskies go wire to wire to stay alive in Mason, OH. Mike Crispino runs down the highlights

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Big East Baseball Championship. You con
stays alive for the second day in a row, second
game in a row, beating Saint John's yesterday thirteen to three,
and then pounding Xavier here this afternoon and tonight eleven
to two. Final numbers, You've gone eleven runs, fifteen hits,
one ara. They left seven savior two runs, only three hits.

(00:21):
They committed two areas, and they left seven men on
as well. Now to the highlights of the winning pitcher,
Charlie West was sharp, got him into the seventh inning,
but the Husky's offense kicked it off in the third
inning when Ryan Daniels delivered an extra base hit. Here
it is and Daniels hits it high to right field

(00:41):
on the run back burn Dad, and it's off the
wall and it's a ground rule double. It got caught
in the wall out there. But Yukon gets the first
two runs of the ballgame as Rispoley and Spur both score.
Daniels with his fifteenth double of a season in a
Yukon laid Then the number four man right behind him,

(01:03):
Tyler Minnick, came up and he delivered his seventy fourth
his fifteenth double of a season and a two nothing
Yukon laid. Then the number four man right behind him,
Tyler Minnick, came up and he delivered his seventy fourth
run batt at end of the season. That's where he
hit it. Here's the pitch from Schmidt, a hot shot

(01:24):
through the middle bag Minnick and that will score. Ryan
daniels is up the gap and left center, and Minnick's
delivered another rebby. That's eight in the tournament for him,
and Yukon leaid's three nothing, and so the Huskies were
off and running three nothing lead. They added another with
three hits in the fourth inning, had a leadoff hit
by bo Root and after a call third striking Brian

(01:47):
Padia had another single by Matt Garbowski, and that brought
up Rob Ruspoli, E's and F's.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Here's a swing and an inside out snake ball down
the line that dropped bare over the top of the
third base and it's bo Roote into score. A throw
goes into third in Garbowski is gun down seven to
five for out number two. The batter rist Foley gets
up to second on a single, advancing on the throw.

(02:14):
Yukon with a fourth run. And I don't think I've
seen a ball hit like that before.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Mike was a knuckleball. It came off the end of
the bat, it looked like it was gonna go foul,
and then it just took a right hand turn and
landed inside the fall line on down the left field line.
That was unbelievable. And the Huskies then would blow it
open with six runs and the fifth inning led by

(02:40):
that man again, Ryan Daniels, with his seventeenth homer of
the season.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Here's the two to two swinging a ball lifted well
the other way by Daniels. This ball's at the track.
This ball is gone some opposite field power by Ryan Daniels.
Yukon hads a run in the bar bottom of the fifth.
It's five nothing Huskies, and.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
So Daniels had run bat at number seventy three, and
that's an amazing number. Brian Padilla, then hitting in the
eighth spot, came up and he delivered a base hit.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Since coming out of the pen three to two. A
slider swinging a ground ball, bash right back up the middle.
Biller scores dolready behind him. A long turnaround second for
Route who goes back into second, feet first behind a
throw and it's a two run single for Padilla. Ukon
bar runs in the inning and ate nothing lead and

(03:36):
still nobody out here in the fifth.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, the Huskies had eight men in a row reach
base in that fifth inning. They sent twelve to the plate,
six runs, six hits. It wasn't over yet, though. Rob
Pispoli then got involved.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Infield is drawn in. Rispoli swings had sizzles one past
the drawn in infield into right center, two runs, score
up ten to nothing in an elimination game. In the
bottom of the fifth inning, he.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wasted no time. He drove it up the middle, pulled
in in field, and that's gonna be it for Jake Cooker.
So the Huskies end up winning it by final of
eleven to two.