Coming off a good weekend against High Point, the baseball team lost to Tennessee Tech 6-4. ETSU had three errors in the game which were costly in the fifth inning.
Matt McGahey, starting pitcher for the Bucs went 4 1/3 innings and gave up four hits and four runs.
Three of the runs were earned. In the first three innings the Bucs scored a run and the Eagles scored a run in the top of the third.
The fifth inning was the downfall of the Bucs. With two errors and five runs coming across the plate, the score jumped to 6-3. “If I hadn’t thrown the pickoff away, then those runs wouldn’t have scored,” McGahey said. “I take partial credit for that. Then the inning just snowballed.”
McGahey said he is looking ahead to this weekend against Gardner-Webb. “I just hope we can bounce back and take three this weekend,” he said.
CJ Lee, center fielder, made it one run closer by hitting a double and helping a run come in. He also hit a home run in the third.
Lee went 3-4 and got hit by a pitch. “I was expecting to win tonight coming off the weekend we had,” Lee said. “But the errors and defense breakdown hurt us. If we didn’t have any of those errors, then we would have won.”
“This was very disappointing tonight. We came out flat and it showed,” said coach Tony Skole. “We left a lot of people on base and did not capitalize when we needed to.”
He said in the fifth inning they put a lot of positive things together and got five runs out of it. “I usually tell them to turn something negative into a positive with the next person up,” Skole said.
The Bucs head out on a road stretch against Gardner-Webb, Appalachian State and North Florida. “We just have to put this one behind us and get wins,” Skole said.

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