WESTWOOD, CA  - The UConn baseball team (2-7) picked up its first ranked win of the year with a 6-2 win against No. 14 Vanderbilt (9-3) on Sunday morning at Jackie Robinson Stadium.

UConn starter Tommy Ellisen pitched a career-high 6.0 innings and struck out five to earn the victory. The Kimberly, Wisc. native pitched around trouble throughout the ballgame but only allowed two runs early in the ballgame. 

The Huskies scored in the first inning for the second-straight day with a two-out RBI single from Grant MacArthur. After Vanderbilt scored once in the first and once in the second to take a 2-1 lead, the Huskies responded in the fourth.

Against Vanderbilt starter Cody Bowker, junior Ryan Daniels launched the first pitch of the fourth inning onto the batting cage in right field to tie the game at two. 

After a MacArthur double, Bryan Padilla lifted a two-run homer to right center to give UConn the lead back at 4-2. 

Los Angeles native Sam Biller smacked his first home run at UConn in the fifth inning to extend the lead to 5-2.

Sam Hutchinson and Jude Abbadessa combined to toss a scoreless seventh inning and Brady Afthim stranded a pair of runners on base in the eighth and ninth innings to lock down the win for UConn.

Next up, the Huskies travel to Miami to take on the Hurricanes next weekend. 

Game Notes

• Tommy Ellisen fired a career-high six innings in his victory on Sunday.
• UConn picked up its first win against Vanderbilt (1-4).
• Brady Afthim has fired 6.0 scoreless innings to begin his 2025 year.
• Jude Abbadessa tossed scoreless innings in back-to-back games this weekend. 
• Grant MacArthur notched his team-leading fifth multi-hit game. MacArthur has also reached base in all nine games this season.