BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- Buccaneer baseball hosted UMass Dartmouth on Monday in the battle for pirate supremacy at Hendy Field. The Bucs bats came to life and their pitching shut the door on the Corsairs to earn the 10-7 victory, their first of the season.

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 10, Corsairs 7

Records: Maritime (1-2)

               UMass Dartmouth (1-2)

On The Mound

Maritime: Sam Huffman: 4 IP | 2 H | 2 R | 2 ER | 5 BB | 7 K

                Jay Loeffler (W, 1-0): 2 IP | 3 H | 3 R | 3 ER | 1 BB | 3 K

                Nolan Kennedy (Sv, 1): 2.2 IP | 1 H | 0 R | 1 BB | 4 K

UMass Dartmouth: Anthony Keefe (L, 0-1): 3.1 IP | 4 H | 5 R | 4 ER | 2 BB | 3 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• AJ Pietrafesa racked up three hits in the game.
• Michael Estrada had two hits in the win.
• Brett Velzis, Costa Beechin, Jake Houston, Evan Vieira, and Aidan Weir each had one hit.
• Eastrada and Houston each drove in two runs in the game. Four other Bucs were credited with RBI.
• Max Hefner, Velzis, and Estrada all scored twice.
• Velzis and Houston both had doubles in the game and Estrada hit his first-career triple. 
• Eastrada was the only Bu credited with a stolen base.

UMass Dartmouth

• TJ Keefe tallied two hits in the game. Four other Corsairs had a hit in the game.
• Keefe drove in three runs, Cooper Wixon drove in two, and Devyn Vezina plated one run.
• Vezina scored twice in the loss. Five other Dartmouth players scored once.
• Keefe and Wixon had the only two extra-base hits, a double and a triple respectively, for the Corsairs.
• Wixon stole three bases in the loss. Sam Laurie, Vezina, and Joe Muzio each had one stolen bag. 

How It Happened

The Corsairs wasted no time scoring, getting on the board in the top of the first. Keefe doubled down the left field line and drove in two to give Dartmouth a 2-0 lead which they carried through the bottom of the first. 

After blanking the Corsairs in the top of the second, the Bucs cut the deficit in half getting a run from a Beechin single that scored Estrada. UMass Dartmouth led the Bucs 2-1 after two innings.

Maritime kept the Corsairs off the board in the third and the fourth and in their offensive frame brought in four runs over the two innings to take a 5-2 advantage. Velzis doubled and Estrada reached on a fielder's choice to bring in two runs in the third. In the fourth, Houston and Vieira each scored on wild pitches.

In the top of the fifth, Dartmouth got two runs back when Wixon tripled down the right field line to bring in two runs. The Bucs answered in the bottom of the inning on a Weir single up the middle that scored Beechin. Maritime had a two-run, 6-4, lead after five. 

The teams traded runs in the sixth, each getting one. The Corsairs scored a run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the inning and the Bucs followed that up with an Estrada single that scored velzis in the bottom of the inning and a Houston double down the left field line that brought in Estrada and Pietrafesa to give the hosts a 9-5 lead at the end of six. 

In the seventh, Dartmouth pulled back within two runs with a run coming in on a wild pitch and another on another sacrifice fly. The Corsairs trailed 9-7 after six and a half innings. In the bottom of the seventh, Pietrafesa singled which brought in Hefner to make it 10-7.

The Pitching on both sides shut down the bats of both offenses highlighted by Kennedy's performance on the mound. Kennedy picked up a 2.2 innings save, preserving the Bucs lead and helping earn them the 10-7 win.

What's Next

The Bucs host Nichols College on Wednesday in non-conference action at 4pm.