BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- With the Bucs and Trailblazers splitting the doubleheader on Saturday, the MASCAC series between the teams was up for grabs. The Buccaneers bat came out hot on Sunday and earned them the series victory by a final of 12-5.

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 12, Trailblazers 5

Records: Maritime (12-13, 5-4)

               MCLA (5-15, 2-5)

On The Mound

Maritime: Justin Brown (W, 2-2): 3.1 IP | 3 H | 2 R | 1 ER | 2 BB | 2 K

                Jake Dziczkowski: 2 IP | 1 H | 0 R | 1 BB | 1 K

MCLA: Nate Morse (L, 1-4): 3.2 IP | 6 H | 5 R | 5 ER | 4 BB | 1 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Tucker Leslie and Aidan Weir both had three hits in the game including a double for each of them.
• Michael Estrada added two hits with a double. Grady Freeman, Brett Velzis, Michael Logiudice, Alec Marsden, and Evan Vieira all had one hits. Velzis had a triple, Freeman and Estrada each had a double.
• Logiudice, Marsden, and Weir all drove in two runs. Leslie, Velzis, AJ Pietrafesa, Estrada, and Vieira all drove in one run.
• Leslie, Velzis, Pietrafesa, and Marsden all scored twice. Freeman, Logiudice, Estrada, and Vieira all scored once.
• Leslie had the only stolen base for the Bucs in the game.

MCLA

• Jayco Pena racked up three hits in the game. Clarence Givhan and Chris Vargas each had two. Givens hit his second home run of the series in the game. Four other Trailblazers added one hit.
• Givhans drove in two runs. Edison Galan, Ty Mazzeo, and Justin HErnandez were each credited with one RBI.
• Five different players scored in the loss.
• Galan and Pena each had a double in the game.
• Mazzeo had the only stolen base of the game for MCLA.

How It Happened

As the away team on their own field, the Buccaneers took advantage of having the first at-bat in the game and jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first. Velzis tripled in Leslie for the first run. Estrada singled to right and brought home Velzis. Marsden knocked in the third run on a ground out to third that allowed Pietrafesa to score. The Bucs held MCLA off the board in the first and led, 3-0, after one.

In the bottom of the second, Hernandez hit a sacrifice fly to right and brought in Rob Correia from third for the first run of the game for MCLA. They trailed the Bucs, 3-1, after two innings.

After a scoreless third, the Buccaneers busted out for four runs in the top of the fourth. With the bases loaded, Pietrafesa was hit by a pitch to drive in a run. Logiudice followed that with a single through the right side of the infield to bring in two runners. Marsden later walked in the inning with the bases loaded to drive in his second run of the game and the Bucs took a 7-1 lead. In the bottom of the fourth, MCLA closed the gap a bit, scoring twice. Galan doubled down the left field line bringing in Vargas and Mazzeo grounded out to short with Hernandez on third and he came in to score. Maritime led 7-3 after four.

Neither team scored in the fifth and the Bucs were kept scoreless in the top of the sixth. In the bottom of the inning, Givhans hit a two-run home run to cut the deficit to two runs, 7-5. 

In the top of the eighth, the Buccaneers scored four to extend their lead to six. Logiudice scored one a bases loaded wild pitch, Vieira hit an infield single that scored Estrada, and Weir doubled to bring in Vieira and Marsden. The Bucs led 11-5 after seven and a half.

In the top of the ninth, the Bucs scored one more on another bases loaded hit by pitch, this time by Leslie, and Marsden scored to make the score 12-5. Dziczkowski shut the Trailblazers down in the eighth and ninth to secure the 12-5 win over MCLA and win the conference series.

What's Next

Maritime hosts Bridgewater State in conference play on Patriots Day, Monday, April 15th for a doubleheader beginning at 12pm.