Recap: 2026 Live Like Lou Jax CBC - Game 2 - UCF vs Notre Dame

Late UCF rally leads to 4-2 victory over Notre Dame in 10 innings

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The UCF Knights scored one in the eighth, one in the ninth

and two in the 10th on Friday to knock off the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 4-2 on Friday in

the Live Like Lou Jax College Baseball Classic from VyStar Ballpark.

Down to their final out in the ninth, the Knights (4-1) were able to rally to tie the game.

An error allowed Stephen Chucka to reach to start the inning. A bunt advanced Chucka

to second. After a strikeout for the second out of the ninth, Andrew Williamson laced

an RBI triple to knot the score at two.

Landon Moran singled to jumpstart the 10th for UCF against Fighting Irish (2-2) reliever

Chase Van Ameyde (0-1). After a pop out, Javier Crespo was hit by a pitch. A wild

pitch advanced the runners and then James Hankerson Jr. singled through the right

side to plate a pair and make it 4-2.

Evan Jones (1-0) tossed 2.1 perfect innings with five strikeouts of relief to earn the

victory for UCF.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fifth when Notre Dame’s Dylan Passo

launched a solo home run off UCF starter Braden Smith.

A Mark Quatrani single coupled with an error put a runner on second to start the

bottom of the sixth. After a sacrifice bunt, Quatrani was thrown out at the plate on a

Jayce Lee ground out for the second out of the inning. Lee advanced to second on a

wild pitch before scoring on Noah Coy’s RBI single to make it 2-0.

Notre Dame starter Jack Radel retired all 18 batters he faced in his 6.0 innings before

yielding to Noah Rooney. UCF’s first baserunner of the game did not come until

Moran’s walk against Rooney with one out in the eighth. Mason Wilson’s pinch-hit

single put runners on the corners before a Crespo sacrifice fly halved the Fighting Irish

lead at 2-1.

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