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Andrew Olszak
Andrew Olszak had a double for USM against Colby (file photo by Jason Johns).
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Winner Colby COLBY 5-1
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Southern Me. SOUTHERN 10-4
Winner
Colby COLBY
5-1
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Final
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Southern Me. SOUTHERN
10-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Colby COLBY 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 9 0
Southern Me. SOUTHERN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0

W: J. Erro (1-1) L: Burnett, Matt (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Colby Shuts Down #11 Southern Maine 4-0

            GORHAM, Maine -- Four Colby College pitchers combined to limit 11th-ranked University of Southern Maine to six hits en route to a 4-0 shutout victory Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference game at Flaherty Field.
            The win was the fourth straight for the visiting Mules who improved to 5-1 overall.  The Huskies dropped their third game in the last four to slip to 10-4 overall.
            Rookie Elijah Cohen (Marblehead, Mass./The Loomis Chaffee School) started on the hill for the Mules and went four scoreless innings allowing just three hits and one walk.  He struck out two.  Sophomore Julian Erro (Pinecrest, Fla./Gulliver Prep) came on to hurl two scoreless frames and picked up his first win of the season.  Rookie Matthew Scibilio (Scituate, Mass.) and junior Cabot Maher (Barrington, R.I.) combined for three scoreless innings to close out the game.
            Maher also played a big role in the Mules' offense with an RBI double in the third inning and a run-scoring triple in the fifth.
            The visitors took a 2-0 lead after two were out in the third on back-to-back RBI doubles from rookie Brady O'Brien (Marshfield, Mass.) and Maher.
            Colby doubled its advantage in the fifth bunching together two doubles and Maher's triple to plate two runs.  Senior Tommy McGee (Bowie, Md.) had a one-out double and came home when senior Andrew Russel (Massapequa, N.Y.) followed with another two-bagger.  After a short fly ball out, Maher tripled to right-center to plate Russel.
            Southern Maine advanced a runner as far as third base only twice in the game.  Down 4-0 in the seventh, senior Dylan Hapworth (Winslow, Maine) led off the frame with a single.  Sophomore Jonathan Wilson (East Granby, Conn.) walked to put two aboard.  Just when it looked like the Huskies might have rally started, the Mules got out of danger with a double play that moved Hapworth to third and a strikeout to end the threat.
            Rookie right-hander Matt Burnett (Ellsworth, Maine) was the tough-luck loser for the Huskies.  Burnett went four innings giving up two runs on four hits.  He did not walk a batter and fanned two.  USM's four pitchers combined to give up nine hits and did not walk a Colby batter.  They struck out nine.
            Southern Maine is back in action tomorrow afternoon (3:30 p.m.) hosting St. Joseph's College.  Colby is scheduled to travel to Amherst College this Saturday for a NESCAC doubleheader.
 
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