UConn baseball’s weekend wasn’t going according to plan late in the closing game of the series against Villanova on Sunday. Dropping its first series of the year, especially one at home to a sub-100 team in the RPI, would have damaged its NCAA Tournament resume, but right fielder Casey Dana made sure that didn’t come to pass with a walk-off sacrifice fly to give the Huskies an essential win in a series where they didn’t have their usual offensive punch.
“The pitching and defense don’t take a day off, some days the hitting does,” head coach Jim Penders said.