BATON ROUGE – The Bulldogs scored first on Saturday night, but would fall on the road to Central Connecticut State at Bertman Field 3-1.
Anthony Mozzicato (1-0) got his first win of the season for the Blue Devils. He threw six full innings and struck out five. Benhardt followed on the mound for two innings and Luke Garofalo (2) was clean in the ninth to get the save.
Alex Voss (0-1) and
Jon Vore we the only two Bulldogs to touch the rubber. Voss threw 5.1 innings and Vore took the final 3.2.
Butler's lone run came across the plate in the bottom of the third.
Carter Dorighi tripled to right center to score
Jake DeFries.
Pasqualini homered to right center to tie the game in the fifth. Sullivan singled the in sixth to score Hussey and an RBI single to left from Gordon scored short to finalize the scoring.
Butler will return to action on Monday night with a 6:30 game at #1 LSU.