BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Buccaneers played host to the Framingham State Rams on Friday to open a three-game conference series. The Bucs trailed big going into the last two innings but they closed the game scoring 11 in the eighth and ninth with eight runs in the ninth. Freshman outfielder Damon White recorded four hits and two RBI in the 15-12 loss to the Rams in the MASCAC series opener.

The Basics

Final: Rams 15, Buccaneers 12

Records: Framingham (11-14, 9-5)

               Maritime (16-16, 9-7)

On The Mound

Framingham: Cameron Prescott (W, 2-3): 6 IP | 5 H | 1 R | 1 ER | 4 BB | 5 K

                      Scott Nosky (Sv, 1): 1.1 IP | 0 H | 0 R | 1 BB | 0 K

Maritime: Sam Huffman (L, 0-4): 4 IP | 13 H | 8 R | 8 ER | 3 BB | 4 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Damon White led all Bucs with four hits. Tucker Leslie and Rex Sullivan each had two hits. Hunter Dean, Michael Estrada, Bill Gorry, and Grady Freeman each recorded one hit. Sullivan had a double, the only extra base hit for the Buccaneers.
• Dean, Estrada, White, and Sullivan all drove in two runs. Michael Logiudice, Gorry, Freeman, and Costa Beechin all drove in one run.
• Logiudice, AJ Pietrafesa, and Estrada all scored twice. Leslie, Dean, White, Eduardo Correia, Beechin, and Sullivan all came across the plate once.
• Logiudice and White both had a stolen base in the loss.

Framingham

• Robert Johnston led all players with five hits. He was 5-for-5 at the plate in the game. Lucas Basile, Ryan Boyle, and Daniel Robichaud all had four hits. Dane Frellick, and Cameron Gilroy had two hits each. JC Espinal added one hit.
• Robichaud drove in five runs in the win. Boyle and Johnston drove in three each. Espinal knocked in two and Basile, and Ryan Plocker each had one RBI.
• Basile scored five times. Johnston scored three times with Boyle and Espinal scoring twice. Robichaud, Plocker, and Gilroy all scored once.
• Johnston was credited with a stolen base in the game.

How It Happened

Boyle got the Rams on the board in the top of the first with a single to score Basile. The Rams led 1-0 after one.

After a scoreless second, the Rams added two more runs in the top of the third.

In the fourth, Framingham opened the game up with five runs in the innings and they added another in the fifth to take a 9-0 lead midway through the game.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Bucs erased the shutout on a bases loaded single from Freeman that scored Estrada. The Bucs trailed 9-1 through six.

Framingham added more runs in the top of the seventh and extended their lead to 13 runs, leading 14-1. In the bottom of the seventh, the Bucs closed the gap with three runs of their own. Dean walked with the bases loaded, Estrada reached on a fielder's choice and White singled. After seven, theBucs trailed by 10, 14-4.

The Rams added a run in the top of the eighth to make the score 15-4. In the bottom of the inning, the Bucs batted around and scored eight runs in a rally that included another bases loaded walk of Dean, singled from Estrada, white, and Gorry, a sacrifice fly from Beechin, and a Sullivan double. The Bucs pulled within three, 15-12.

Nosky, who has been the regular late inning arm for the Rams, came in in the eighth to shut down the rally and finished the game off in the ninth for his first save of the season and the Rams won by the 15-12 final score.

What's Next

The Bucs and Rams meet in Framingham tomorrow, Saturday, April 27th at 1pm for a conference doubleheader.