ATLANTA – The Northeastern Huskies (6-3) played their first midweek game of the season, defeating the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (7-4) by a score of 7-0 at Mac Nease Baseball Park on Wednesday evening.
The Huskies were paced by
Tyler MacGregor, belting two home runs and going 3-for-4 on the day, and leadoff man
Luke Beckstein going 4-for-5 with two runs scored. Four Northeastern pitchers combined for the team's first shutout of the season, with
Jake Gigliotti earning the win in his first start of the year.
- Northeastern started the game strong with two hits in its first two at bats – Luke Beckstein led off the game with a double, and Tyler MacGregor hit a deep home run to right field to lead 2-0.
- Northeastern tacked on two more runs, one each in the second and third, on a Gregory Bozzo sac-fly RBI scoring Carmelo Musacchia in the 2nd, and an Alex Lane RBI single in the third scoring MacGregor.
- While the Huskies were unable to add more in the fourth and fifth innings, it was once again the duo of Beckstein and MacGregor in the sixth, with Beckstein reaching on a single and MacGregor hitting another homer to right-center field to extend the lead to 6-0.
- With two outs in the inning Jack Doyle added another in the sixth on an RBI double, scoring Alex Lane from first after he reached on a walk, giving NU its final run of the night for the 7-0 win.
- Northeastern starting pitcher Jake Gigliotti kept the Yellow Jackets at bay, working five scoreless innings. He allowed three hits and four walks, striking out three.
- Out of the bullpen, Michael Gemma followed suit with two scoreless innings of his own, allowing just one hit and two walks. He struck out one batter in the seventh.
- Finishing the eighth and ninth innings were Cooper McGrath and Brett Dunham. McGrath allowed a hit and a walk, but struck out one, and Dunham worked a perfect ninth inning striking out the last two batters.
- It was Northeastern's third straight multi-home run game, after coming into the weekend series with Mercer with no multi-HR games. It was MacGregor's fourth multi-HR game as a Husky.
The Huskies travel to Richmond, Va. this weekend for a three-game series with Old Dominion beginning Friday, March 8 at 3 p.m. All three games of the series will stream on ESPN+.
