AUBURN — Maine Central Institute took advantage of six walks by St. Dominic pitchers on its way to an 11-10 baseball win Saturday.

The Saints (1-2) walked six batters, with five of them ending up scoring.

MCI (2-0) jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the second inning before St. Dom’s answered with four runs in the third. In the fourth, the Huskies scored another three runs, but, again, the Saints countered with another four runs in the bottom half of the inning to take an 8-6 lead.

“MCI jumped out to an early lead, we had a little bit of trouble with control, we walked a few guys early, and MCI really punished us for it with every opportunity they had,” St. Dom’s coach Bob Blackman said. “We got down by three, but in the middle innings, the third and fourth, coming back with four runs in each, we really battled back but we couldn’t hold them off. The walks did us in today.”

MCI scored a run in the top half of the fifth before St. Dom’s scored twice in the bottom-half of the inning to take a 10-7 lead. But the Huskies plated four runs in the sixth to go up 11-10.

Kaythean Martinez finished the game on the mound for MCI and earned the victory.

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Blackman said that the young Saints, comprised of one junior, 10 sophomores and five freshmen, have shown a lot of maturity early in the season.

“I said to the team today that last year we would have lost by 10 runs,” Blackman said. “It would have been four and a half innings and a loss, but today we showed our maturity and we battled and didn’t give up. That was a very good sign. Last year’s freshmen, this year you wouldn’t know they were sophomores because they look like juniors and seniors.”

Ridge Dionne had three hits including a double for the Saints.

 

SACOPEE 5, RICHMOND 3: Caleb Vacchiano’s go-ahead three-run double in the bottom of the sixth lifted the Hawks (3-0) over the Bobcats (0-1) in Richmond.

Vacchiano led Sacopee with three hits, three RBI and three stolen bases, also picking up the save on the mound. Carson Black let up two runs on three hits over five innings, striking out 11.

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Cole Alexander tallied three strikeouts for Richmond.

 

MOUNT VIEW 7-5, TRAIP 0-4: David Knowlton pitched a four-hitter with six strikeouts in Game 1, then hit a walk-off single in Game 2 as the Mustangs won in Thorndike.

Nick Hurd had a triple and two RBI for Mount View (2-2) in the opener and was the winning pitcher in the second game, recording nine strikeouts.

Matt Ford had a two-run double for Traip (0-5) in Game 2.

 

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ST. DOMINIC 7, MCI 6: Emily Andrews had three hits and two stolen bases in the Saints win in Auburn.

Cami Casserly and Bella Perryman also had multiple hits in the game for the Saints (3-0) while Kathleen Dean triple in the fourth inning scored a run. Dean also pitched, going the distance striking out nine, allowing six runs and 11 runs.

Ruby Kitchin, Hannah Robinson and Skyla Dean had a RBI in the third inning for Maine Central Institute. Robinson, Gracie Moore and Keydaliz Rivera each had multiple hits for MCI.

Kassie Snowman struck out eight for the Huskies in the loss.

 

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