Box Score | PxP | Cumulative

CARY, N.C. – The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team’s Stars vs. Stripes intrasquad came to an end Wednesday night, with the Stripes evening out the four-game set with a 10-4 victory over the Stars at the National Training Complex.

Jacob Cozart (NC State) put the Stripes on top to stay with a three-run home run in the second inning as part of a night that saw the catcher reach base safely in four of his five trips to the plate.

The Stripes pounded out 18 hits on the night and scored five times in the fourth to break the game open. They plated seven runs over a two-inning stretch, and six Stripes hurlers combined to limit the Stars to one run over the first seven innings.

In addition to Cozart’s big night, Ethan Petry (South Carolina) and Seaver King (Wake Forest) delivered three-hit performances to pace the Stripes.

With the Stars vs. Stripes series complete, the Collegiate National Team’s man roster will be finalized on Thursday. The team will compete in a pair of five-game series against Chinese Taipei and Japan, with games taking place across the Carolinas from June 30-July 12.

KEY MOMENTS

• The Stars drew first blood, capitalizing on a Charlie Condon (Georgia) double and a two-out Jace LaViolette (Texas A&M) RBI single to take a 1-0 lead in the second.
• Petry’s two-out single sparked a Stripes rally in the home half of the second; Anthony Martinez (UC Irvine) followed with a base hit, before Cozart launched his third home run in four games to stake his club to a 3-1 advantage.
• Braden Montgomery (Stanford) sparked the game’s key rally, starting the third with a base hit and a steal of second before coming home on Ryan Stafford’s (Cal Poly) sac fly to center.
• Petry and Martinez came through with back-to-back singles once again before an error and an Austin Overn (USC) RBI single capped the rally, stretching the margin to 8-1.
• The Stripes weren’t quite done, as Montgomery and Petry delivered two-out, RBI singles to extend the lead to nine runs in the fifth.
• The Stars cut into the lead with two runs in the eighth, getting a Kodey Shojinaga (Kansas) run-scoring single and an RBI triple from Rodney Green Jr. (Cal) to pull to within seven runs.
• Christian Moore (Tennessee) added a run-producing single in the ninth for the Stars to cap the scoring.

NOTEWORTHY

• Stripes starter Kyle Robinson (Texas Tech) allowed just one run on four hits while striking out four over 3.0 innings.
• Omar Melendez (Alabama State) followed with 2.0 hitless innings, before Mason Nichols (Ole Miss) and Nicholas Wilson (Southern) turned in scoreless innings of relief.
• Seven different Stars hitters logged multi-hit performances, led by the matching three-hit games by Petry and King.
• Additionally, Montgomery, Stafford, Martinez and Overn finished with two-hit efforts for the Stripes.
• Shojinaga and Condon logged two-hit nights for the Stars, finishing successful camps that saw them hit .467 and .533, respectively.
• Martinez and Stafford wrapped up impressive camps for the Stripes as well, completing the four-game series with batting marks of .400 and .467, respectively.

ON DECK

• The Collegiate National Team will open the 20^th USA vs. Chinese Taipei International Friendship Series Friday (June 30) at the National Training Complex.
• The five-game International Friendship Series will continue through July 4, with games at the National Training Complex (June 30), the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham (July 1 and July 3), Atrium Health Ballpark in Kannapolis (July 2) and Segra Stadium in Fayetteville (July 4).
• The National Training Complex will host the opening three games of the 44^th USA vs. Japan Collegiate All-Star Championship Series from July 7-9, while games four and five of the series will be played at Joseph Riley Jr. Park in Charleston on July 11 and 12.
• Tickets for this year’s Collegiate National Team Training Camp, along with all tickets to Team USA’s games against Chinese Taipei and Japan, can be found HERE.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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