Tigers open home schedule in style

Georgetown College baseball scored early and then doubled its lead late to cruise to a season home opening victory Tuesday. The Tigers (4-5) welcomed Asbury University (4-2) to Robert N. Wilson Field and scored four runs in the first two innings, added four late and won 9-2.

Philip Tomasulo got it all rolling when he was alert on a dropped third strike. He later came around to score GC's first run. The home team tacked on three more in the bottom of the second when small ball and errors led to the first big inning.

AU changed pitchers and Georgetown's Tom Taplin kept rolling as the middle innings seemed to have the game set on a 4-0 finish.

Taplin retired 15 of his first 20 batters, aided by a double play and worked out of a bases loaded, two outs, two hit batters situation with a fielder's choice.

Hunter Noble came in for the Eagles at the top of the third. He nine of the 11 hitters he faced, striking out two allowing just two runs. Those were costly two runs, though, as Asbury had seemed to grasp momentum.

They had finally cracked Taplin in the top of the sixth and pushed across two runs to trim the deficit in half. Georgetown responded by coming to life with a lead-off single by Sean Williams and a double by Adryan Ramirez. Both came around to erase the ground the Eagles gained in the top half of the inning, and GC added two more runs for good measure.

Georgetown got its final run in the bottom of the eighth. Then Richard Escobedo came in to close the door. AU went three up, three down in its final at bat.

Ryan Garner led from the plate, going 2-for-3 with three runs scored and Tomasulo was 1-for-5 with 3 RBI.

Georgetown is back in action noon Saturday when Judson University comes to town.