Buc Ball Sweeps Saturday Doubleheader Against Owls to Win Conference Series
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Mass. Maritime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
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Westfield St. | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Mass. Maritime | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 2 |
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Westfield St. | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
WESTFIELD, Mass -- After losing the opening game of the first conference series of the 2025 season to Westfield State at home on Friday, the Buccaneers baseball team traveled to Westfield on Saturday and proceeded to take two games from the Owls, 11-6 and 4-3, to win the MASCAC series.
Game One
The Basics
Final: Buccaneers 13, Owls 6
Records: Maritime 9-1 (1-1)
Westfield 12-4 (1-1)
On The Mound
Maritime: Hunter Dean (W, 3-1): 7 IP | 7 H | 6 R | 6 ER | 4 BB | 10 K
Westfield: Colton Vasseau (L, 1-3): 4 I | 10 H | 7 R | 6 ER | 1 BB | 2 K
Inside The Numbers
Maritime
- Aaron Cole notched three hits in the win for the Bucs. Aj Pietrafesa, Brett Velzis, and Michael Logiudice all had two hits. Colsen Loughren, Michael Estrada, Jake Houston, and Aidan Weir had one.
- Cole and Estrada drove in three tuns. Velzis, Bill Gorry, and Weir drove in one.
- Pietrafesa scored three times, Cole and Houston scored twice, and Velzis, Loughren, Logiudice, and Weir scored one.
- Loughren and Houston had doubles, the only extra-base hits for the Buccaneers.
Westfield
- Seven different Owls recorded a hit in the loss.
- Chase Racine and Alex Martin drove in two runs. Dan Burnett and Devin Slattery drove in one.
- Six different Westfield base runners scored in the game.
- Racine homered in the game, and Nick Marshall had a double.
- Sam Palmer and John Bessette stole a base.
How It Happened
Saturday played out much differently between the Bucs and Owls in Westfield compared to Friday. The Bucs scored first in the top of the first on a two-RBI single from Estrada to give Maritime a 2-0 lead.
In the top of the second, the Buccaneers extended their lead to four runs, scoring one run on a Cole single and another on an error by Westfield. In the bottom of the second, the Owls struck for three runs and closed the Bucs lead to one run, 4-3.
Maritime scored again in the top of the third, which is a theme in game one as they scored in all but one inning in the game. Weir singled in the third to drive in a run, and Cole hit a sacrifice fly to bring in another, and the Buccaneers went up 6-3. Westfield got two runs back in the bottom of the third on a two-run homer off the bat of Racine and cut the lead to one run again, 6-5.
In the fourth, Estrada hit a sacrifice fly of his own to go back up two, 7-5.
Then, in the top of the fifth, Houston scored on a balk, the second with him on base, and the Bucs opened up a three-run lead again, 8-5.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Owls got one run back on a Slattery single to score Palmer, and the Bucs led 8-6 going to the seventh inning.
Maritime scored three times in the top of the seventh with Cole, Velzis, and Gorry driving in runs to put the Bucs up 11-6. In the bottom of the inning, Dean struck out the side, plus one that reached on a wild pitch on a dropped third strike, and evened the conference series at a game apiece with the 11-6 final.
Game Two
The Basics
Final: Buccaneers 4, Owls 3
Records: Maritime 10-8 (2-0)
Westfield 12-5 (1-2)
On The Mound
Maritime: Sam Huffman (W, 3-1): 6 IP | 6 H | 3 R | 3 ER | 1 BB | 2 K
Sean Hallissey (Sv, 1): 1 IP | 0 H | 0 R | 0 BB | 2 K
Westfield: Charlie Walsh (L, 3-1): 1 IP | 1 H | 1 R | 1 ER | 1 BB | 2 K
Jack Novak: 5 IP | 4 H | 3 R | 3 ER | 4 BB | 2 K
Inside The Numbers
Maritime
- Aidan Weir recorded two hits in the game to lead the Bucs. Evan Vieira, AJ Pietrafesa, Brett Velis, and Michael Logiudice had one hit.
- Velis drove in two runs, and Weir knocked in one.
- Pietrafesa, Michael Estrada, Jake Houston, and Weir all scored.
- Weir had a double, the only extra-base hit for the Bucs in the win.
Westfield
- Six different Owls recorded a hit.
- Dan Burnett drove in two runs, and Nick Marshall drove in one.
- Sam Palmer, Burnett, and John Bessette scored the three runs.
- Robison Baez recorded a triple, and Dan Burnett had a double.
- Palmer and Baez had a stolen base.
How It Happened
After two scoreless innings to begin game two of the day, game three, and rubber match of the series, the Owls struck for three runs in the bottom of the third. Burnett doubled to drive in two runs, and Marshall later drove in Burnett to give the hosts a 3-0 advantage.
After a scoreless fourth and the Bucs down three, Maritime came back with three runs of their own in the top of the fifth. Velzis singled to drive in Weir and Houston. Later in the inning, Pietrafesa scored one a wild pitch to tie the game at 3-3.
In the top of the sixth, the Bucs took their first, and only, lead of the game when Weir doubled to drive in Estrada to give Maritime a 4-3 lead.
Huffman shut down the Owls offense in the bottom of the sixth and Hallissey came in to shut the door and pick up his first-career save in the seventh and the Bucs took the game, 4-3, swept the doubleheader, and won the series over Westfield.
What's Next
The Buccaneers are back on the road on Monday to take on Nichols College in Dudley, Ma at 3pm in non-conference play.
