BANGOR- The Bangor Babes would break a 3-3 tie by scoring a run in the seventh inning and two more in the eighth on Thursday night, and held on to defeat the Waterville Woodworkers 6-4 in a Greater Northeast Collegiate Baseball League game at the Winkin Complex on the campus of Husson University.
Bangor would open up the scoring on the evening by plating two runs in the bottom of the first inning. TJ Llerena would come across the plate beating the throw from the third baseman Emmit Hatch on a fielders choice hit by Noah Simpson, and then made it 2-0 on a RBI single by Peter Keblinsky. Waterville jumped into the lead for the only time in the fifth 3-2 on a RBI single by Travis Graf (NHTI) and then two wild pitches by Brody Walsh that allowed two runs to score. The Babes tied it right back up in the bottom half on a Keblinsky RBI sacrifice flyout, and then took the advantage for good in the seventh on a slow groundout back to pitcher Adam Gwarjanski (Poland High, University of Southern Maine) by Llerena that would bring Ayden Hogan in to score. They got some insurance in the eighth on a pair of bases loaded walks by Bodie Bishop (Hampden Academy, USM) and Joseph Wellman-Clouse, with the RBI walk by Bishop turning out to be the game winner. Colton Trisch gave up a run in the ninth, but earned the save when he struckout Hatch looking to end it.
Logan Keller and Christopher Gaudio each had two hits for Bangor in the victory. Gaudio also drove in a run and was named the Bangor Babes Player of the Game. They stole five bases, with Simpson swiping two. Walsh (Mt. Blue High, Thomas College) got the win in relief on the mound allowing no runs on three hits with two walks and four strikeouts in 3.1 innings. Grady Vanestidine (Brewer High, Endicott College) started and gave up three runs over the first 4.2 frames. Graf and Allen Merrifield (Massabesic, St. Joseph’s College) drove in a run each for Waterville. Gwarjanski suffered the pitching loss in relief, as the Woodworkers had their six game win streak snapped in dropping to 6-3 on the season. Bangor breaks their two game losing skid in improving to 4-3 in their 19-game GNCBL schedule, and will return to action at Morton Field in Augusta on Sunday at 4 p.m. against the Surgin’ Sturgeon.
