Score: Maine 20, UAlbany 4
 
Location: Mahaney Diamond in Orono, Maine
 
Records: UAlbany (3-18-1, 0-7 America East) | Maine (13-11, 7-0 America East)
 
Short Story: The University at Albany baseball team fell to the University of Maine in the first game of a three-game series, 20-4.

Head Coach Jon Mueller: "We started poorly and it snowballed from there. We have a great opportunity tomorrow to even the series."
 
Key Stats:

• UAlbany Pitchers:
  • Cregg Scherrer – 2.0 IP | 9 ER | 4 H | 9 BB | 6 K
  • Kyle McCaffrey – 2.0 IP | 6 ER | 8 H | 1 BB | 1 K
  • Rob Manetta – 3.0 IP | 5 ER | 7 H | 1 BB | 3 K
  • Steven Turk – 1.0 IP | 0 ER | 1 H | 1 BB
• Dan Tauken returned to the lineup and led the offense with three hits, including a triple. He finished with two RBIs and a run scored.
• Will Feil recorded two hits, spending time at both first and second base while in the field.
• Danny Alvarez, Will Binder, Justin Hurd, and Carson Dunkel each recorded a hit each. Hurd finished with two runs scored and a walk, Dunkel added two RBIs.
• UAlbany finished with nine hits, five walks, 11 strikeouts, and left nine men on base.

 
How it Happened:

• Cregg Scherrer started on the mound for the Great Danes, Colin Fitzgerald started for the Black Bears.
• Maine took a 4-0 lead in the second inning, scoring runs on two wild pitches, a hit by pitch, and a walk.
• Maine added eight runs in the third inning to make it 12-0, forcing Scherrer out of the game. He was replaced by Kyle McCaffrey midway through the inning.
• Maine added three more runs in the fourth to make it 15-0.
• Rob Manetta entered the game for UAlbany to start the fifth.
• Maine added an additional two runs in the fifth thanks to a two-run home run from Quinn McDaniel, 17-0.
• UAlbany got on the board in the sixth inning following a Dan Tauken RBI single, scoring Justin Hurd. Hurd got on base with a leadoff double to start the inning. The Great Danes added two more runs on a two-RBI double off the bat of Carson Dunkel, making it 17-3.
• Maine scored two more runs in the sixth before UAlbany added another in the seventh, and RBI triple from Tauken.
• Maine scored the final run of the game in the bottom of the seventh, an RBI single from Dylan McNary.  
• Steven Turk pitched the eighth inning for UAlbany.

 
Next: Game two of the weekend series is set for tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. Keep up with all of the latest news, highlights, and insights on UAlbany baseball by following the team on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and by using the hashtag #UAUKNOW.