After losing their match-up Friday, the Yellow Jackets once again faced the Connecticut Huskies at noon Sunday, this time in an elimination game. UConn had battled Florida hard Saturday evening, tying the game at 5 before losing 6-5. Tech was theoretically more rested, having finished off Bethune-Cookman Saturday mid-afternoon 12-3.
Game 3 - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets @ Connecticut Huskies
For starting pitchers, the Huskies went with William Montgomerie (6-3, 2.57) against Ben Parr (7-1, 4.23) for the Yellow Jackets. Joey Bart started at catcher to give Arden Pabst a break.
Game 62 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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Georgia Tech (38-24) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 1 |
Connecticut (38-25) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
The visiting Jackets batted first, and Matt Gonzalez became the third Jacket ever to reach 300 career hits with a two-out single.