Walsh's Walk-Off Single In Extra Frame Lifts Baseball To 7-6 Come From Behind Victory Over Emerson
| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
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Emerson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 5 |
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Mass. Maritime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 3 |
MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME BASEBALL
Friday, March 21, 2014
Commodore Hendy Field, Buzzards Bay, Mass.
FINAL: MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 7, EMERSON 6 (10 INNINGS)
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. -- Sophomore Everett Walsh’s (Marstons Mills, Mass.) two-run walk-off single with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted Massachusetts Maritime to a 7-6 non-league college baseball victory over Emerson Friday afternoon at Commodore Hendy Field.
The host Buccaneers (2-3) came from behind on three occasions to notch their triumph, as the visiting Lions (2-8) jumped out to a 3-0 lead on a pair of RBI singles off the bat of senior Cal Ciarcia (Dennis, Mass.) in the first and fifth frames that sandwiched a third inning sacrifice fly by junior Zach Dean (Vero Beach, Fla.). Massachusetts Maritime closed back to within two in the bottom of the fifth on a two-run single by senior Ben Maher (Plymouth, Mass.), who then evened matters after scoring on a three-base error, but Emerson answered back with a pair of tallies in the sixth on a two-run single by sophomore Steven Cameron (Landsdale, Pa.). The Buccaneers took advantage of a pair of errors in the eighth to forge a 5-5 tie heading into the extra inning, as a two-out bases loaded walk to freshman Mitch Moormann (Hollywood, Fla.) gave the Lions the lead in the top of the 10th before two more errors by the visitors in the bottom of the frame put runners at second and third and set up Walsh’s heroics, as he lined a 2-0 pitch to right to plate the deciding runs.
Juniors Bobby Rosano (North Reading, Mass.) and William Cooksey (Richmond, Tex.) joined Walsh and Maher with two hits each as part of an 11-hit attack in the triumph for Massachusetts Maritime, as junior Zac Cooney (East Bridgewater, Mass.) picked up his second victory of the season on the mound for the Buccaneers in allowing an unearned run and fanning three over four innings of work. Freshman Connor Damiano (Randolph, N.J.) rapped out three hits on the afternoon for Emerson, which also received a pair of singles from senior James Sullivan (Medfield, Mass.) as part of a 10-hit effort at the plate. Ciarcia suffered the setback in relief to fall to 0-2 on the spring for the Lions, as he was victimized by the pair of 10th inning errors that led to Walsh’s walk-off.
Massachusetts Maritime heads to Cranston, R.I. on Saturday afternoon to take on Johnson & Wales in a non-league doubleheader that begins at Noon, while Emerson hosts Clark in a New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference twinbill at Victory Field in Watertown, Mass. on Saturday afternoon beginning at 1:45 p.m.
