The Husson baseball team continued their five game home stand on Tuesday by hosting a conference doubleheader against the top team from the West Division SUNY Cobleskill. The Eagles would extend their win streak and remain unbeaten in the NAC, sending the Fighting Tigers to their first two league losses of the season 3-2 and 11-1 at the Winkin Complex in Bangor.
In game one (9 innings)- Husson plated two runs in the third inning that ended being the difference. With the score 1-1, Akira Warren (Hall-Dale) scored on a passed ball, and Matt Holmes (Bangor) added an RBI double to make it 3-1. SUNY Cobleskill fought back to within a run in the eighth, and had the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth but Eagles reliever Tanner Audyatis induced a popout to shortstop to end it. Jackson Curtis (Ellsworth) had two hits to lead the way, while Matt Wallingford (Leavitt) picked up the win on the mound to improve to 3-1 allowing one run (none earned) on three hits with two walks and eight strikeouts in 7.0 innings. Audyatis fired the final two frames to record his first save of the season. Korin Laurilla had an RBI single for the Fighting Tigers in their first conference loss.
In game two (7 innings)- Husson again would snap a 1-1 tie with two runs, this time in the second inning to push ahead for good and claim the doubleheader sweep. Tanner Crowley would score on an error, and Tanner Evans (Old Town) slapped an RBI single to centerfield. The Eagles then scored six times in the fourth to pull away, highlighted by a two-run single by Jackson Curtis and a two-run double by Crowley. Jackson Curtis had four hits and three RBI, while Crowley and Hunter Curtis (Ellsworth) had two hits each. Warren scored three times from the leadoff spot, while Crowley also drove in two runs. Alex Smith (2-0) got the win on the hill pitching a complete game giving up one run on five hits with one walk and six strikeouts. Laurilla supplied the only offense for SUNY Cobleskill with an RBI single. The Fighting Tigers drop to 7-15 overall and 6-2 in the North Atlantic Conference. Jackson Curtis, just one day after setting the program record for career runs batted in, is two doubles shy (47) of setting the career doubles mark held by Ethan Guerrette who had 48 from 2008-2011.
Husson takes a nine game win streak into a non-conference home matchup against nationally ranked #23 Bowdoin College next Tuesday at 4 p.m. The Eagles record sits at 17-9 and 10-0 in conference play.
