It was beginning to look dire for UConn baseball’s 2018 season. After falling apart in their opening game to Washington, the Huskies came out flat and uninspired in an elimination game against LIU Brooklyn. They looked tired, ready to pack it in and escape north, away the southern heat.
“I was nervous that we weren’t going to see the Huskies down here,” head coach Jim Penders said. “It looked like that in the beginning of the game today and the end of the game yesterday.”
After three innings, UConn was down 3-0 to an LIU Brooklyn team that hadn’t even played a top-50 RPI team all season and got rocked by Coastal Carolina the night before, 16-1.