UConn baseball has relied on its offense all season. When the Huskies score more than five runs, they’re 40-5, but are just 3-11 when they fail to reach that mark. That trend continued as the Storrs nine fell 3-2 to Texas Tech on Friday in the team’s NCAA Tournament opener.
It was a game that looked like it was going to be high-scoring before it started with two elite offenses that can run up the score, but Stephen Quigley and Zach Fogell did enough to combine for eight innings and three runs allowed. There was plenty of traffic with Quigley issuing two walks and coughing up seven hits in 4 1⁄3 innings but they escaped innings with limited damage — Texas Tech crossed the plate once in the first and twice in the fifth.