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Joe Bova was 3-for-4 with two home runs and a double to drive in four runs and score two
15
Winner Southern Me. USM 18-17
9
Bates BATES 12-20
Winner
Southern Me. USM
18-17
15
Final
9
Bates BATES
12-20
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Me. USM 4 2 1 5 0 1 2 0 0 15 15 0
Bates BATES 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 9 13 3

W: Rawstron, Gavin (1-1) L: J. Tully (4-3)

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

Southern Maine’s Bova Cranks Two Home Runs in 15-9 win at Bates

LEWISTON, MAINE    –  Senior Joe Bova (Boston, Mass./The Winchendon School) had a massive day at the plate going 3-for-4 with two home runs and a double to drive in four runs and score two to lead the University of Southern Maine Huskies to a 15-9 win over the Bates College Bobcats in a non-conference baseball game Wednesday afternoon at  Leahey Field.
 
Bova has hit a home run in the last two games for the Huskies, hitting the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth against Bates in yesterday's home win (9-8) before launching two today against the Bobcats. Playing 16 games this season, mostly as a reserve, Bova is hitting .273 (6-for-22), and three of his six hits have been for home runs.
 
Sophomore Mike Anquillare (North Haven, Conn.) also had a strong day offensively with a 3-for-5 effort with three runs scored and three RBI, including a two-run home run in the seventh. Juniors Dylan Firmin (Stratham, NH/Exeter) and Chris Quigley (Halifax, Mass./Silver Lake Regional) each had two RBI.  Firmin was 2-for-5 with to runs scored, while Quigley was 2-for-5 with a run, including a solo home run in the second.
 
 
Record:
Southern Maine 15, Bates 9
Southern Maine (18-17)             421 501 200    15-15-0
Bates (12-20)                            220 100 022      9-13-3
 
Pitching Records:
WP: SM, Gavin Rawstrom (1-1), 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
LP:  B, John Tully (4-3), 1.2 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 HR
 
 
 
How It Happened –Southern Maine 15, Bates 9
  • In a high-scoring first three innings, the Huskies led Bates 7-4.  The Huskies struck for four runs in the first highlighted by an RBI double to the gap in left from Bova as USM took advantage of a pair of Bobcat errors.
  • Bates halved its deficit in the first on a pair of hits. A lead-off single Keagan Ryan, and a two-run home run to left from David Swift.
  • USM made it a 6-2 game in the second as Quigley led off with a solo shot and freshman Drew Scialdone (Amesbury, Mass.) picked up an RBI double. Bates answered in its half of the inning however on back-to-back RBI doubles from Brennan Kelly and Ryan for a 6-4 game.
  • In the third, Bova hit the first of his two home runs in the game with a lead-off solo shot to left-center, and the Huskies led 7-4. After a quiet 1-2-3 third from Bates, Southern Maine broke open the game with five runs in the fourth to ballon its lead to 12-4.
  • Junior Kyle Douin (Augusta, Maine/Cony) led off the inning with a single and the Huskies had two baserunners after a batter was hit-by-a-pitch.  Anquillare drove in the first run of the inning with a single through the left side making it 8-4.  After getting an out against the Huskies, both Anquillare and sophomore Peter Keblinsky (Ellsworth, Maine) moved up a base to third and second on stolen bases. Firmin drove in both with a single to right field before Bova launched a two-run home run to right for the 12-4 lead.
  • Bates was able to cut back a run in the bottom of the fourth as John Federico had a one-out double down the left field line and then scored on a single to left from Brennan Kelley.
  • The score remained unchanged, 12-5, after the fifth. In the sixth Quigley had an RBI single to left, making it 13-5 before Anquillare drove in USM's final two runs of the game with a two-run homer to the gap in left.  The home run is Anquillare's third of the season.
  • Bates scored the final four runs of the game with two in the eighth off of a two-run homer from Swift, and another two-run shot in the ninth from Liam Yardley. Yardley's HR made it a 15-9 game, but the Huskies were able to get the final outs of the inning for the win.
 
Up Next:
The Huskies close out their regular season at home with a Little East Conference doubleheader on Friday (12:00 pm) against WestConn. Southern Maine will celebrate its senior student-athletes prior to the game: Anthony Poole, Connor Burgess, Kyle Douin, Gavin Rawstrom, Sam Economy and Joe Bova.
 
 
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