BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Buccaneers and Lancers met on Taylor's Point on Saturday in the final conference games of the season for both teams. With a spot on the line in the MASCAC Playoffs for Worcester State and the Bucs needing a win to lock up the fifth spot in the tournament, the team's split the doubleheader with the Lancers winning game one, 1-0, and the Buccaneers taking game two, 11-0. With the win in game one, Worcester secured their spot in the playoffs and with their win in game two, Maritime secured the fifth spot in the tournament. 

Game One

The Basics

Final: Lancers 1, Buccaneers 0

Records: Worcester (10-25, 9-11)

               Maritime (16-20, 9-11)

On The Mound

Worcester: Ben Smith (W, 3-4): 7 IP | 2 H | 0 R | 0 BB | 9 K

Maritime: Sam Wooley: 5 IP | 5 H | 0 R | 2 B | 4 K

                Brenden Baiardi (L, 3-4): 2 IP | 0 H | 1 R | 0 ER | 1 BB | 2 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• The Bucs recorded just two hits that both came in the seventh inning. Michael Logiudice and Damon White each had a single.

Worcester

• Five different players recorded a hit for the lancers. Colin Fitzgerald had a double, the only extra base hit in the game.
• Frankie Hernandez scored the only run of the game.

How It Happened

Wooley and Smith faced off in a pitcher's duel that had seven base runners in the first five innings, all on five hits and two walks for the Lancers.

The only run of the game came in the sixth inning when the Buccaneers turned a double play and the runner on third for Worcester came in to score on a throw home by the Bucs to try and complete a triple play which came up short. 

Maritime got two base runners in the bottom of the seventh but the Lancers turned a double play of their own to retire the side and earn the 1-0 win in game one.

Game Two

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 11, Lancers 0

Records: Maritime (17-20, 10-11)

               Worcester (10-26, 9-12)

On The Mound

Maritime: Chase Dwight (W, 4-2): 7 IP | 5 H | 0 R | 2 BB | 6 K

Worcester: Jarrett Morrill (L, 1-4): 4 IP | 5 H | 6 R | 4 ER | 2 BB | 6 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• AJ Pietrafesa and Michael Estrada both had two hits in the win. Tucker Leslie, Hunter Dean, and Costa Beechin all had one hit. Estrada had a triple and a double for the Bucs.
• Leslie, Pietrafesa, Dean, and Beechin all drove in two runs. Estrada, Jake Houston and Eduardo Correia each drove in one.
• Estrada scored three times in the victory. Michael Logiudice, Damon White, Pietrafesa, and Dean all came in to score twice.

Worcester

• Five different players had a hit for the Lancers including a double by Jeremy DeLacruz.
• Kevin Doyle and Nathan Thurber both had a stolen base.

How It Happened

Game two was a different story for the Buccaneers at the plate as they strung together seven hits and five walks to help them produce their 11 runs. 

The scoring began in the bottom of the second on a Houston sacrifice bunt that scored Estrada after he had tripled earlier in the inning. Maritime took a 1-0 lead at that point.

In the third, they poured on five more runs. Pietrafesa drove in Logiudice, Estrada knocked in White on a ground-rule double, Beechin drove in two on a single through the left side, and Leslie hit an infield single that allowed Dean to come in and make the score 6-0 Buccaneers after three.

The fourth and fifth were scoreless, as well as the top of the sixth, and in the bottom of the sixth frame Maritime added five more runs. Pietrafesa singled and brought in logiudice again. Dean followed that up with a single to drive in two and Pietrafesa and White scored. Correia then walked with the bases loaded and Leslie grounded out to first and Dean scored. The Bucs took an 11-0 lead after six.

Dwight came out for the seventh and shut down the Lancers to earn the complete game shutout win to send the Bucs to the MASCAC playoffs as the five seed.

What's Next

Maritime opens their playoff run on Thursday at 11am against #4 seed Westfield State at #1 seed Salem State.