MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME BASEBALL
Friday, April 10, 2009
Bowditch Field, Framingham, Mass.
GAME #1 FINAL: MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 8, FRAMINGHAM STATE 0
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Massachusetts Maritime (7-9, 2-3 MASCAC) 002 213 0 - 8 10 0
Framingham State (5-16, 1-4 MASCAC) 000 000 0 - 0 1 2
BATTERIES
MMA: David Hike and William Shouldice
FRA: Matt Nicholson, Rob McLaughlin (6) and Sean Callahan
WP: Hike (3-3) LP: Nicholson (2-4)
Home Runs: MMA: Nick Montalto (1); William Shouldice (1)
GAME #2 FINAL: FRAMINGHAM STATE 2, MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 1
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Massachusetts Maritime (7-10, 2-4 MASCAC) 100 000 0 - 1 6 1
Framingham State (6-16, 2-4 MASCAC) 001 100 x - 2 6 1
BATTERIES
MMA: Nick Levitre and William Shouldice
FRA: Matthew Magazine and Sean Callahan
WP: Magazine (1-2) LP: Levitre (1-1)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Junior David Hike (Riverview, Fla.) tossed a complete-game one-hitter and struck out four as Massachusetts Maritime presented Head Coach Bob Corradi with his 500th career victory with an 8-0 triumph over Framingham State in the opening game of a Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader Friday afternoon at Bowditch Field.
Corradi, in his 37th season as the Buccaneers' head coach, becomes the 29th active coach in NCAA Division III play to reach the 500-win plateau, as he sports a career mark of 500-525-6 (.488), having coached 1,031 games on the diamond since 1973. Corradi is the sixth active New England coach to reach that milestone as well, joining Eastern Connecticut's Bill Holowaty, Southern Maine's Ed Flaherty, Amherst's Bill Thurson, Brandeis' Pete Varney and Salem State's Ken Perrone.
Freshman Nick Montalto (South Yarmouth, Mass.) gave visiting Massachusetts Maritime (7-10, 2-4 MASCAC) the only runs it would need in the top of the third, as his first career homer (a two-run shot to right) staked the Buccaneers to a 2-0 lead. Fellow freshman William Shouldice (Rutland, Vt.) extended that margin to 4-0 in the fourth when he connected on his first career round-tripper, a two-run shot to center, and the visitors received an RBI single from senior Tyler Spofford (Sharon Springs, N.Y.) in the fifth for a 5-0 lead. Massachusetts Maritime closed out its scoring with three runs in the sixth frame on RBI singles by Montalto, senior Mark Mozelak (New Hartford, Conn.) and sophomore Michael Vargas (Natick, Mass.), and the dramatics continued as Hike took a no-hitter into the seventh before sophomore J.J. Sorensen's (Westerly, R.I.) broke it up with a clean single to right for the host Rams (6-16, 2-4 MASCAC). Hike induced a fly ball and a double play to end the game and present Corradi with his milestone achievement.
Montalto finished with a pair of hits and three RBI in the opening game triumph for the Buccaneers, who also received two hits from Mozelak as part of a 10-hit attack in helping Hike improve to 3-3 on the mound. Senior Matt Nicholson (Watertown, Mass.) allowed five earned runs and struck out four in 5 2/3 innings of work in suffering the setback for Framingham State.
Framingham State rallied from an early one-run deficit with single runs in the third and fourth innings to post a 2-1 nightcap victory, as Spofford staked Massachusetts Maritime to a 1-0 first inning lead with an RBI single. The Rams evened matters in the third on an RBI double by sophomore Steven Tramontozzi (Watertown, Mass.) and plated the deciding run in the next frame on sophomore George Schreiner's (Valley Stream, N.Y.) run-scoring double, as sophomore Matthew Magazine (Marlboro, Mass.) took care of the rest on the mound for the hosts, scattering six hits and fanning six to pick up his first win of the spring.
Spofford went 3-of-3 to go with his RBI in the second game setback for the Buccaneers, as sophomore Nick Levitre (Grafton, Mass.) was a tough-luck loser for the visitors, scattering six hits and striking out nine in falling to 1-1 on the season.
Massachusetts Maritime hosts Bridgewater State in a MASCAC doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon at Commodore Hendy Field beginning at 2:00 p.m., while Framingham State heads to Worcester, Mass. on Saturday afternoon for a non-league twinbill with WPI that begins at Noon.