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No. 2 Georgia Tech stings Maryland, 12-4
3/23/2003 7:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 23, 2003
Atlanta, Ga. - The Maryland Terrapins (5-14, 0-5 ACC) lost their seventh straight game today, a 12-4 defeat at the hands of the second-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (19-2, 2-0 ACC).
The Terps were held scoreless until the sixth inning, at which point the Yellow Jackets had already put the game out of reach with nine unanswered runs.
Kyle George (Bel Air, Md.), Mike Costantino (Somerset, Mass.) and Anthony Buffone (Manalapan, N.J.) each drove in a run for the Terps, who were outscored by eight runs or more for the fourth time this season.
The Terps are off to their worst start since 2001, when the team began the season 5-16. The seven-game slide is the longest since a seven-game slide in 2001. The Terps have not lost eight in a row since 1998.
Third baseman Costantino raised his team-leading average to .345 by going 2-for- 5. He has now hit safely in nine of the past 10 games, hitting .371 (16-for-43) over the past 10 games.
Sophomore Sean Kane (West Chester, Pa.) took the loss, his fourth consecutive to open the year.
Kane looked confident in the early stages of the game, facing only six batters through the first two innings.
But with two outs in the bottom of the third, a misplay by right-fielder Brian Jarosinski (Olney, Md.) allowed a two-out, two-run rally. Georgia Tech never looked back, putting up three or more runs in the next three innings. Three of those runs came on a monster home run to left field by freshman Micah Owings, his sixth of the year.
Georgia Tech has scored 25 runs in the past two games with the aid of only one home run. The one-two-three inning in the first snapped a 19-inning streak in which a Tech hitter had reached base.
The Terps and Yellow Jackets conclude the series tomorrow afternoon at Russ Chandler Stadium at 1:30 p.m.
NOTES: The Terps are now 3-10 following a loss this season...Today's lineup was the 19th different batting order used in 19 games by head coach Terry Rupp as the team tries to find a winning formula...The Terps avoided being shut out for the first time in 23 games by adding two runs in the sixth...First baseman Ray Gemmill (Silver Spring, Md.) is nursing a sore shoulder
