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Despite Mulroy Home Run, UNCG Holds Off Baseball Team For 6-3 Win
March 22, 2012 | Baseball
Despite a two-run home run by Sam Mulroy, the reigning Ivy League and Collegebaseballinsider.com's Northeast Player of the Week, the Princeton baseball team fell to 4-8 with a 6-3 road loss at UNC-Greensboro midway through its Spring Break trip.
Princeton managed only two hits over the final eight innings against six Spartan pitchers, including winner Eric Kalbfleisch, who didn't allow a hit over two middle innings. Princeton's Michael Fagan took the loss after allowing five runs over five innings.
Shortstop Matt Bowman scored two of Princeton's three runs, including one following a single that preceded Mulroy's first-inning blast over the left center wall. Designated hitter Tyler Servais and right fielder John Mishu both added hits for the Tigers, who will open a four-game set in Annapolis against Navy starting Friday.
Princeton's 2-0 lead was short-lived, as Greensboro's Trevor Edwards hit a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the first to even the score. The Spartans grabbed a 3-2 lead on a second-inning single by T.J. Spina, and they built it to 5-2 on a two-run homer by third baseman Thomas Troelstrup in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The Tigers got within two in the top of the eighth. The inning started with back-to-back walks to Bowman and Mulroy, but Greensboro got the next two batters on strikeouts. A single up the middle by John Mishu scored Bowman, but a flyout ended the inning. Greensboro added one run in the bottom of the inning to add insurance in its 6-3 win.