Josh Smith
Ben Ennis
2
Georgia State GSU 0
4
Winner Kentucky UK 0
Georgia State GSU
0
2
Final
4
Kentucky UK
0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Georgia State GSU 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 8 3
Kentucky UK 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 8 0

Game Recap: Baseball |

Smith Homers in 4-2 Loss at Kentucky

17th Straight Game vs. Power 5 Opponent & 12th Straight Road Game

LEXINGTON, KY. – Josh Smith's home run tied the game in the sixth inning, but Georgia State fell 4-2 at Kentucky in Sunday's series finale at Kentucky Proud Park.
 
Smith also doubled for Georgia State (4-13), and Dalton Pearson had two of the Panthers' eight hits.
 
Playing its 17th straight game against a Power 5 conference opponent and 12th straight road game, GSU got another good start from Mason Patel, who pitched into the sixth inning and allowed two runs on three hits with six strikeouts.
 
In his last two starts combined, including the win at Georgia Tech, the true freshman right-hander has pitched 11.0 innings and allowed two runs and seven hits with 14 strikeouts.
 
The Panthers jumped in front in the top of the first as Pearson led off with a single and scored on Will Mize's double to the left field corner.
 
But Kentucky (11-2) answered in the bottom half on a two-run homer by T.J. Collett, who homered in each game of the series.
 
The scored remained 2-1 until the top of the sixth, when Smith lofted a ball down the left field line and over the fence for his second homer of the season, knotting the game at 2-2.
   
In the bottom of the frame, Patel loaded the bases with no outs on a hit batter, a bunt single and a walk. But right-hander Chad Treadway came on and proceeded to strike out the next three batters to keep the game tied. The first two went down looking, and then Treadway got Austin Schultz swinging to end the threat.
   
Kentucky's Oraj Anu led off the seventh with a single, and with one out, the left-handed hitting Collett hit a perfectly-placed ball down the third base line against the shifted infield, scoring Anu with the go-ahead run. The Wildcats added an insurance run in the eighth.
 
Georgia State brought the tying run to the plate twice in the ninth inning, but a double play and a groundout ended the game.
 
Georgia State will travel to Clemson Tuesday for a 6 p.m. game on ACC Network Extra. Then the Panthers open Sun Belt Conference play next weekend at ULM.
 
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