JoJo Jackson HR
9
Marshall MAR 16-23, 5-14 Sun Belt
17
Winner Georgia State GSU 22-21, 9-10 Sun Belt
Marshall MAR
16-23, 5-14 Sun Belt
9
Final
17
Georgia State GSU
22-21, 9-10 Sun Belt
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Marshall MAR 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 6 9 12 3
Georgia State GSU 1 1 1 2 6 0 2 4 X 17 17 3

W: Watson, Ryan (5-1) L: Patrick Copen (2-6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Homers by Jackson, Ryerson, Boynton Set School Record

Georgia State Sports Communications
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 28, 2023

Georgia State Baseball: Panthers Tie Season HR Record in 9-7 Win at Georgia

ATLANTA -- JoJo Jackson hit two home runs and Max Ryerson and Luke Boynton also homered as Georgia State broke its season record for home runs in a 17-9 win over Marshall in Friday's series opener at the GSU Baseball Complex.

The (22-21, 9-10 Sun Belt) now have 86 home runs on the season, breaking the previous mark of 82, set in 2010.

Senior right-hander Ryan Watson won his third straight start to improve to 5-1 on the season. The Sugar Hill, Ga., native (North Gwinnett High School) pitched six innings and allowed just one unearned run on five hits while striking out five and walking one. Watson earned his 18th career victory, fourth in GSU history.

Georgia State scored in each of the first five innings. Leading 5-1 after four, the Panthers broke the game open with six runs in the fifth.

Matt Ruiz and Will Mize led off the fifth with singles, and then Jackson hit a 3-run blast to right center for GSU's record-breaking 83rd homer of the season. 
 
After two outs, Dyland Strickland walked and scored on Cameron Jones' RBI-double. Then Ryerson ripped a line drove down the left field line and over the fence for his 12th homer of the season. That put the Panthers up 11-1.
 
Ryerson, the leading hitter in the Sun Belt, also had a run-scoring double in the third and a 2-run double in the fourth for a 5-RBI night.

Boynton crushed a 437-foot, 2-run homer in the seventh inning, his team-leading 14th of the season and third in the last two games.
 
Jackson led off the eighth inning with his second homer of the night and 11th of the season, starting a four-run inning. 

Jones, the junior right fielder, reached base in all four plate appearances with three walks and an RBI-double and stole three bases. He started the scoring for GSU in the first inning as he walked, stole second base, stole third and scored on a throwing error by the catcher.

Jones now has 31 stolen bases on the season, three behind the GSU season record.

Georgia State took a 17-3 lead into the ninth inning, when Marshall (16-23, 5-14) managed six runs.

The series concludes with a doubleheader Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m.







 
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