Mulhern, Shouldice Combine For Seven Hits As Baseball Drops MASCAC Senior Day Doubleheader To Worcester State By 8-3, 11-4 Finals
MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME BASEBALL
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Commodore Hendy Field, Buzzards Bay, Mass.
GAME #1 FINAL: WORCESTER STATE 8, MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 3
123 456 7 R H E
Worcester State (14-24, 5-8 MASCAC) 500 000 3 - 8 14 2
Massachusetts Maritime (12-18, 3-10 MASCAC) 300 000 0 - 3 8 1
BATTERIES
WOR: Nick Bonofiglio and Joseph Carlier
MMA: Jared Lowe, Chris Gallagher (7) and Matt Pelletier
WP: Bonofiglio (4-4) LP: Lowe (0-6)
GAME #2 FINAL: WORCESTER STATE 11, MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 4
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Worcester State (15-24, 6-8 MASCAC) 021 160 1 - 11 14 2
Massachusetts Maritime (12-19, 3-11 MASCAC) 210 100 0 - 4 6 2
BATTERIES
WOR: Alex Teal and Joseph Carlier
MMA: Tyler Smith, Chris Gallagher (5), Zac Cooney (5) and Matt Pelletier
WP: Teal (5-5) LP: Smith (1-3)
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. -- Freshman Jeff Bolio’s (Oxford, Mass.) RBI single snapped a 4-4 fifth inning tie and ignited a six-run rally that lifted Worcester State to an 11-4 nightcap victory over Massachusetts Maritime and a sweep of a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Commodore Hendy Field, as the Lancers took the opener by an 8-3 final.
Freshman Michael Ivas (Princeton, Mass.) added a two-run double in the decisive fifth frame in the nightcap triumph for the visiting Lancers (15-24, 6-8 MASCAC), who also received run-scoring singles off the bats of sophomores Dan Ubele (Tyngsboro, Mass.) and Joseph Carlier (Rockland, Mass.) as well as an RBI two-bagger from junior Kurt Sabacinski (Worcester, Mass.) as part of the rally. The host Buccaneers (12-19, 3-11 MASCAC) grabbed a 2-0 lead in their first at-bat of the second contest on an error and an RBI single by senior Aram Mulhern (Taunton, Mass.), but Worcester State evened matters in the second on Ubele’s groundout and an RBI single by Ivas. Massachusetts Maritime regained the lead in the second on an error, but the Lancers again knotted matters in the third on a sacrifice fly by freshman Cody Osburn (Fair Oaks, Calif.) before taking a 4-3 edge in the fourth on a passed ball. The Buccaneers squared the contest at 4-4 in the bottom of the frame on sophomore Bob Lee’s (Braintree, Mass.) RBI groundout, setting up the visitors’ deciding rally in the fifth.
Ivas rapped out two hits and drove in three total runs in the nightcap victory for Worcester State, which also received two hits each from Bolio, Sabacinski, Carlier and Ubele as a part of 14-hit attack in support of junior Alex Teal (Malden, Mass.), who allowed an earned run and fanned five in going the distance to improve to 5-5 for the Lancers. Mulhern collected two of Massachusetts Maritime’s six hits in the nightcap setback, as the Buccaneers also received doubles from senior Billy Shouldice (Rutland, Vt.), sophomore Matt Pelletier (Bradford, Mass.) and freshman Bobby Rosano (North Reading, Mass.). Freshman Tyler Smith (Bellingham, Mass.) suffered the setback on the mound for the hosts, allowing four earned runs and fanning two in four innings of work to fall to 1-3 on the spring.
Worcester State jumped out to a 5-0 first inning advantage in the opener, receiving RBI singles from Sabacinski, Osburn, Ivas, junior Nick Bonofiglio (Worcester, Mass.) and freshman David Ruggiero (Peabody, Mass.) in the frame, but Massachusetts Maritime answered with three tallies in the bottom half of the inning, as Rosano tripled and scored on an error while Shouldice and Mulhern added RBI singles. The score remained the same until the seventh when the Lancers plated three insurance runs on a two-run Osburn triple that was followed by Ruggiero’s sacrifice fly to account for the final, as Sabacinski collected three hits for the visitors, who also received two hits and three RBI from Osburn to go with two hits each from Carlier and junior Nick Gezotis (Westfield, Mass.) as part of another 14-hit attack. Bonofiglio allowed two earned runs and struck out seven in going the distance for Worcester State in the opener, evening his mark at 4-4 on the season. Shouldice and Mulhern each had two hits as part of an eight-hit attack for the Buccaneers in the lid-lifter, as senior Jared Lowe (Brimfield, Mass.) fanned a pair over six innings of work.
Massachusetts Maritime closes out its 2012 campaign on Tuesday afternoon by hosting Babson in the 40th Anniversary Celebration Game for Head Coach Bob Corradi at Commodore Hendy Field beginning at 3:00 p.m. Today’s two contests were the final games of the season for Worcester State.
