Box Score 1 | Box Score 2             PLYMOUTH, N.H. – The visiting University of Southern Maine Huskies pounded out 35 hits and scored 40 runs over two game to sweep the Plymouth State University Panthers in Little East Conference baseball action Thursday afternoon at Parish Field.
            The Huskies took the opener 19-8 in eight innings as three players contributed four RBI.  In the nightcap, the Huskies hit four home runs, including a pair from freshman Cam Seymour (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy), to take a 21-9 decision in eight innings.  The first game counts in the LEC standings while the second game was a non-conference affair.
            Senior Andrew Hillier (Bangor, Maine) had a big day at the plate for the Huskies going 8 for 12 with six runs scored and three RBI.  Rookie infielder Janek Luksza (South Paris, Maine/Oxford Hills) was 3 for 5 with eight RBI in the two games.
 
Game One
            The Huskies rallied from a 6-5 deficit in the fourth inning scoring four times to take the lead for good.  Senior Andrew Olszak (Danvers, Mass.) ignited a four-run uprising with a two-run double.  The Panthers cut the Huskies' lead to 9-8 in the home half of the inning on sophomore Griffin Crane's (Lancaster, N.H./White Mountain Regional) second home run of the game, a two-run shot to right field.
            Luksza increased the Huskies' lead to 11-8 with a two-run single in the fifth inning.  Luksza picked up another RBI in the seventh drawing a bases loaded walk.
            Southern Maine put the 10-run rule into play sending 10 men to the plate to score six runs in the eighth inning.  Hillier had a two-run single in the middle of the uprising.
            Hillier led the Huskies' 16-hit attack with four hits, including a pair of doubles.  Olszak and sophomore Arlo Pike (Buxton, Maine/Bonny Eagle) had three hits and four RBI in the game.  Among Pike's three hits was his second home run of the season.  Luksza finished the game with two hits and four RBI.
            Senior southpaw Gavin Arsenault (Dixfield, Maine/Dirigo) picked up the win working 5.1 innings in relief to earn his second win of the season.
            Crane led the Panthers' offense with a pair of home runs and five RBI.  Rookie Luke Sokolski (Waterford, Conn.) had three hits.  Sophomore starting pitcher Braxton Brown (Lancaster, N.H./White Mountain Regional) was saddled with the loss.
 
Game Two
            The Huskies jumped out of the gate fast scoring six times in the first frame, highlighted by a two-run homer from Seymour.  The Panthers got back into the game in the home half as senior Andrew Wasilefsky (Willington, Conn./E.O. Smith) hit a grand slam home run.
            Southern Maine took firm control of the game with a six-run rally in the fourth inning, highlighted Luksza's first career home run, a three-run blast, to take a 15-5 lead.  Junior Jason Komulainen (Gorham, Maine) also hit a solo home run in the inning.
            Seymour's second home run of the game, a two-run shot to right-center in the fifth, increased the Huskies' lead to 17-5.  The round tripper was the 10th of the season for the rookie catcher/DH.  He becomes the 14th player in the history of the program to reach double figures in home runs in a single season, and the first since Mike Eaton hit 12 in 2011.
            The Huskies put the 10-run rule into effect in the eighth inning scoring four times.
            Hillier had his second four-hit game with a double and three singles.  He reached base all seven times he batted.  Seymour had three hits and four RBI, and junior Brogan Searle-Belanger (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) had three hits, including a triple.  Senior Gage Feeney (Cutler, Maine/Washington Academy) picked up the win with 3.2 innings of solid relief work.  Feeney surrender an unearned run on four hits and one walk while striking out five to collect his fifth win of the season, and the 21st of his career.
            Sokolski, junior Bryan McGrath (Franklin, Mass./Salisbury School) and graduate student Andrew Salta (Laconia, N.H.) had three hits to lead the Panthers.  Wasilefsky finished the game going 2 for 4 with five RBI.  Graduate student Mark Levesque (Milton, N.H./Nute) was tagged with the loss after surrendering eight runs, seven that were unearned, in two innings of work,
 
Up Next
            Southern Maine begins a four-game series with Castleton University tomorrow afternoon with an LEC twin bill at Castleton.  The two teams will play a non-conference doubleheader at USM on Saturday.  Plymouth State travels to Rhode Island College on Friday for a Little East doubleheader.