READFIELD — No. 5 Maranacook scored all seven runs in the first two innings to beat No. 12 Mountain Valley 7-2 in a Western Class C preliminary round baseball game Tuesday.

Maranacook (10-7) will play at No. 4 Lisbon (13-3) on Thursday. Mountain Valley ends the season at 7-10.

Cam Brochu hit a single and a double for Maranacook. Kent Mohlar had two singles for the Black Bears. Logan McLaughlin threw a complete game for the win. McLaughlin struck out three, walked two and retired the first nine hitters he faced.

HALL-DALE 5, TRAIP 4: Brian Allen allowed just two hits in five innings as Hall-Dale edged Traip in a Western C prelim.

Allen left the mound with a 5-1 lead after the third inning, then returned for the sixth with just the one-run advantage and shut down the Rangers with five strikeouts and four walks. Bobby Cumler and Quinn Stebbins had two hits apiece for the seventh-seeded Bulldogs (12-5), who will face No. 2 Winthrop in the quarterfinals on Thursday. Joe Spinney had a double for No. 11 Traip (9-8).

ELLSWORTH 6, ERSKINE 2: Ellsworth jumped out to a 3-0 lead and then turned to pitcher Conor Maguire to frustrate Erskine in their Eastern B preliminary round game.

No. 9 Erskine (10-7) touched Maguire for both of its runs in the third on RBI singles by Ryan Rodrigue and Caleb Cummings. But he shut the Eagles down from there to send Ellsworth (10-7) to a quarterfinal matchup with top-seeded Old Town.

SOFTBALL

LISBON 9, MARANACOOK 2: The ninth-seeded Black Bears could not slow down the eighth-seeded Greyhounds’ offense and were bounced from the Western C playoffs with their preliminary round loss in Lisbon.

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