Early on Friday night Creighton head coach Ed Servais felt like his team needed a different approach at the plate with the wind blowing in.
Enter Andrew Meggs.
The redshirt freshman from San Jose, California has spent the 2019 season as a pinch-hitter and a backup to three-year starter Isaac Collins at second base. On Friday night Servais’ decision to go with a more contact-oriented approach and insert Meggs paid off in the bottom of the seventh inning when the 165-pound infielder took a first-pitch breaking ball from Villanova starting pitcher Gordon Graceffo and lined it into right field for a go-ahead, two-out RBI single that sparked the Bluejays to a 4-1 over the Wildcats and into the driver’s seat for a Big East regular season title with one game to go.