Malm
Tyler Neville
5
UAlbany UABASE 22-22
6
Winner University of Maine MAINE 20-20
UAlbany UABASE
22-22
5
Final
6
University of Maine MAINE
20-20
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
UAlbany UABASE 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 9 0
University of Maine MAINE 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 6 7 0

W: Peter Kemble (2-0) L: Fusco, Anthony (1-1)

2
UAlbany UABASE 22-23
4
Winner University of Maine MAINE 21-20
UAlbany UABASE
22-23
2
Final
4
University of Maine MAINE
21-20
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UAlbany UABASE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 2
University of Maine MAINE 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 X 4 8 2

W: Tyler Nielsen (2-2) L: Eisenmann, Connor (2-5) S: Matthew Pushard (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Splits Series at Maine Ahead of Postseason

Game One Score: Maine 6, UAlbany 5 
 
Game Two Score: Maine 4, UAlbany 2
 
Location: Mahaney Diamond in Orono, ME. 
 
Records: UAlbany (22-23, 20-18) | Maine (21-20, 16-17)
 
Short Story: UAlbany earns a series split after dropping the final two regular season games against Maine. The Great Danes will shift focus to Thursday's America East Championships matchup with NJIT. 

Coach Jon Mueller: "Today we were able to get a number of guys in the games. I thought Scherrer and Eisenmann both had good starts on limited pitches. We lost a late lead in game one but the guys never quit all afternoon. We will now set our sights on the conference tournament."
 
Key Stats Game One
  • Cregg Scherrer went three innings and allowed one run on two hits with no walks and four strikeouts.
  • Anthony Fusco (1-1) took the loss after giving up three runs on four hits in the seventh inning. 
  • Johnny Marti went 2-for-3 with a three-run home run. 
  • Brad Malm went 2-for-4 with one run scored and one RBI. 
  • Maine starter Alex McKenney went six innings and allowed five runs on nine hits with one walk and five strikeouts. 
  • Peter Kemble (2-0) earned the win with a scoreless seventh inning.
  • Connor Goodman hit a walk-off two-run single in the seventh inning for the Black Bears. 
Key Stats Game Two
  • Connor Eisenmann (2-5) went five innings and allowed three runs (two earned) on seven hits with two walks and seven strikeouts. 
  • Jason Bottari moved to second in UAlbany's single season solen bases category with his 25th and 26th stolen bases of the season in game two. 
  • Johnny Marti went 2-for-4 with one run scored.
  • Chase Carroll went 1-for-4 with two RBIs.
  • Maine starter Tyler Nielsen (2-2) went six innings and allowed no runs on three hits with no walks and five strikeouts. 
  • Matthew Pushard (2) earned the save after he threw three innings and allowed two runs on four hits with no walks and four strikeouts to preserve the Maine win.
  • Sean Lawlor went 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Black Bears. 
How it Happened Game 1
  • Maine's Shane Lawlor scored the game's first run when he hit a solo home run off of Cregg Scherrer to give the Black Bears a 1-0 lead in the second inning.  
  • The Black Bears added two more runs with an RBI triple and sacrifice fly in the fifth inning that gave Maine a 3-0 lead. 
  • UAlbany responded in the top of the sixth inning with a five-run rally. Brad Malm started the rally with an RBI double that drove in Will Feil. In the next at-bat, Johnny Marti hit a three-run home run that gave UAlbany its first lead of the game. Chase Carroll extended the lead with an RBI single that gave UAlbany a 5-3 lead.
  • The sixth inning home run was Marti's third home run of the series and moved him to tied-fifth in the America East with his seventh of the season. 
  • Anthony Fusco entered in the bottom of the seventh to close the game but ran into trouble late. With a two-run lead and one runner on second with two outs, Fusco gave up three-straight hits.
  • The Maine rally was capped off by a Connor Goodman walk-off two-run single up the middle that gave Maine an important 6-5 lead.
  • With the win, combined with a Hartford 3-0 win over UMass Lowell, Maine stayed alive in postseason contention heading into the second game of the doubleheader. 
How it Happened Game 2
  • Maine caused trouble for UAlbany starter Connor Eisenmann early with at least two runners on base in the first two innings, but Eisenmann escaped both jams.
  • In the third inning, the Black Bears broke through and took a 1-0 lead on an RBI groundout after Scout Knotts led the innings off with a triple. 
  • After a scoreless fourth, Maine added to the lead with a sacrifice fly and RBI single and took a 3-0 lead in the fifth inning. 
  • With a stolen base in the seventh inning, his second of the game, Jason Bottari moved to second place in UAlbany's single season stolen bases category with his 26th of the season. He is two shy of tying the record heading into the America East Championships. 
  • The Black Bears added one more run in the seventh inning on an error and took a 4-0 lead. 
  • After being held scoreless for eight innings, UAlbany started a ninth inning rally with back-to-back singles by Johnny Marti and Marc Wangenstein to lead off the inning. With one out, Chase Carroll hit a two-run double that cut the lead to 4-2.
  • UAlbany was unable to score any more runs, as Maine secured its 4-2 victory. With the win, Maine needs Hartford to defeat UMass Lowell in the second game of their Saturday doubleheader to qualify for the America East Championships. If UMass Lowell wins, they will qualify. 
Next: UAlbany advanced to the America East Championships on Friday with a doubleheader sweep. The Great Danes will face NJIT on Thursday, May 27 at 2:30 p.m. in Stony Brook, N.Y.
 
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