Georgia Tech Clinches Series with 6-3 Win

ATLANTA – Georgia Tech (18-10, 3-2 ACC) scored four of its six runs with two outs to clinch the series with a 6-3 win over Virginia (13-11, 3-2 ACC) on Saturday (March 16) at Mewborn Field.
 
While the Yellow Jackets found the clutch hits throughout the day, Virginia stranded five runners in scoring position. Lacy Smith (Lancaster, Pa.) finished 2-for-3 at the plate, including launching her 10th home run of the season, to lead the Cavaliers.

KEY INNING
The Yellow Jackets jumped out to the early lead and set the tone in the first inning, scoring a pair of runs with two outs. A walk and double put two in scoring position with one out, but Aly Rayle (Herndon, Va.) induced a pop-up for the second out. Skye Webb scored the pair, as her fly ball to left just eluded the outstretched glove of Tori Gilbert (Mechanicsville, Va.).

 TOUCHING HOME
• Two doubles in the first inning helped Georgia Tech take a 2-0 lead. Webb’s two-out double to left plated both runs.
• Katie Krzus tripled in the third and scored with two outs on a wild pitch to make it 3-0 Jackets.
• Cameron Stanford lifted a solo home run and Kaylee Ellebracht added a double with two outs in the fourth to make it 5-0 Georgia Tech.
• Virginia clawed back into the game in the fifth as Hayley Busby (Phoenix, Ariz.) doubled and Smith followed with her three-run home run.
• The Yellow Jackets added an insurance run in the sixth on a Bailee Zeitler RBI-single.

ON THE LINES
• Busby finished 2-for-4 at the plate with both hits being doubles. She now has nine two-baggers on the season.
• Arizona Ritchie (Stafford, Va.) hit her fourth double of the season.
• Ashlee Davis (Gilbert, Ariz.) rounded out Virginia’s six hits at the plate, narrowly missing a home run off the top of the wall.
• Rayle was charged with the loss in the circle, her first defeat since February 9 against Georgia.
 
UP NEXT
Due to travel arrangements, the series finale between Virginia and Georgia Tech will now start at 11 a.m. on Sunday (March 17).