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Cullen McIntyre
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Southern Me. SMBB24 3-12
10
Winner Endicott EC 15-1
Southern Me. SMBB24
3-12
3
Final
10
Endicott EC
15-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Me. SMBB24 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 4 0
Endicott EC 0 0 5 3 0 0 2 0 X 10 12 1

W: Nicholas Cannata (1-1) L: McDonald, Colin (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Christina Cracolici, Director of Athletic Communications

No. 1 Endicott College Downs Southern Maine 10-3

BEVERLY, Mass.  –   Nicolas Notarangelo, Brendan O'Neil, and TJ Liponis each drove in two runs and Nicholas Cannata threw six scoreless innings to start as the no. 1 Endicott College Gulls defeated the University of Southern Maine Huskies 10-3 in a non-conference baseball game Wednesday afternoon at North Field.
 
Husky sophomore Hunter Brissette (Lisbon, Maine/Lisbon Falls) collected two of Southern Maine's four hits, finishing the game 2-for-4 at the dish from the lead off spot.  Sophomore Kyle Douin (Augusta, Maine/Cony) drove in all three of the Huskies' runs with a three-run home run in the top of the seventh. 
 
Series History:
Today's game marked the 37th meeting between the University of Southern Maine and the Endicott College Gulls. Southern Maine leads the overall series 22-15.  Endicott has won the last five, and swept the Huskies in 2022 and 2023.  USM last defeated the Gulls, 7-1, on April 19, 2019. 
 
Records:
Southern Maine (3-12)          000 000 300    3-4-0
No. 1 Endicott (15-1)             005 300 02x    10-12-1
 
Pitching Records:
WP:  Nicholas Cannata (1-1), 6.0 IP, 1 H, 0R, 0 ER, 4 BB, 7 Ks
LP:   Colin McDonald (1-2), 2.2 IP, 5 R, 5 ER, 6 BB, 3 Ks
 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • After a scoreless two and a half innings, the top-ranked Gulls erupted for five runs in the bottom of the third. Notarangelo drove in the Gulls first two runs with a homerun to right field. Liponis and James Benestad each had an RBI walk in the inning, and Endicott scored its final run of the third on a wild pitch.
  • Up 5-0, Endicott added three more runs in the bottom of the fourth. Robbie Wladkowski, Joey Frammartino and Liponis each had an RBI single as part of the Gulls four-hit bottom of the fourth.
  • The score remained unchanged through the sixth.  Senior reliever Matt Burnett (Ellsworth, Maine), the Huskies' third pitcher of the game, pitched both shutout innings. 
  • Southern Maine got on the board in the top of the seventh to break up the shutout.  With two outs and one on, Brissette collected his second hit of the contest, singling through the right side.  Giving the Huskies base-runners with his hitting, Brissette came around to score on Douin's three-run home run to right, cutting Southern Maine's deficit to 8-3.
  • The Gulls responded in the home half of the seventh, however, on a two-run double from O'Neil, making it a 10-3 game. Neither team scored the rest of the way for the 10-3 final.
 
INSIDE THE STATS
  • Douin's home run is his team-leading fifth of the season.  Douin now has 10 home runs in his career.
  • Seeing action in 11 of the Huskies' 15 games, Brissette is hitting a team-leading .359 (14-for-39). His two hits in today's contest mark the fifth game this season that he has recorded more than one hit in a game.
 
UP NEXT:
Southern Maine remains on the road and will travel to Rhode Island College on Saturday (12 pm) for a Little East Conference doubleheader. The game with the Anchormen was originally scheduled as a home contest for the Huskies, but field conditions forced the relocation. USM will bat as the home team against RIC.   Southern Maine remains on the road for its next three contests at Husson on April 2 (3:30 pm), at Saint Joseph's College on April 5 (4:00 pm) and at UMass Boston for an LEC doubleheader on April 6 (12 pm)   
 
 
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