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Drew Scialdone hitting vs. Colby in 2025
Max McClure, Athletic Communications Student Employee
Drew Scialdone had two RBI vs Colby
8
Winner Southern Me. SOUTHERN 1-0
5
Colby COLBY 4-1
Winner
Southern Me. SOUTHERN
1-0
8
Final
5
Colby COLBY
4-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Me. SOUTHERN 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 8 8 1
Colby COLBY 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 5 8 3

W: McDonald, Colin (1-0) L: Sam Lowenstein (0-1) S: Hudson, Charlie (1)

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

Southern Maine Opens 2026 with 8-5 Road Win at Colby


WATERVILLE, Maine   –  Junior Colin McDonald (Gorham, Maine) pitched five strong innings in his first start of 2026, and sophomore Drew Scialdone (Amesbury, Mass.) and junior Peter Keblinsky (Ellsworth, Maine) each drove in two runs to lead the University of Southern Maine Huskies to an 8-5 season-opening win over the Colby College Mules Tuesday afternoon at Coombs Field.
 
Freshman Charlie Hudson (South Berwick, Maine) closed the door on the game getting his first intercollegiate save with a pair of strikeouts in the bottom of the ninth as Southern Maine handed the Mules (4-1) their first loss of the season.
 
Records:
Southern Maine (1-0)                200 003 021    8-8-1
Colby (4-1)                                002 000 120    5-8-3
 
Pitching Records:
WP: SM, Colin McDonald (1-0), 5.0 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1K
LP:  C, Sam Lowenstein (0-1), 1.1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 1 B, 1 K
SV: Southern Maine, Charlie Hudson (Sv, 1), 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
 
 
How It Happened:
  • Southern Maine took an early lead scoring twice in the top of the first off of the bat of Scialdone.  Scialdone collected a pair of RBI with a single to left field that scored Keblinksy and senior Kyle Douin (Augusta, Maine/Cony).
  • McDonald started strong for the Huskies retiring Colby in order in the bottom of the first and then getting three groundouts to short in the second to work around a two-out single.
  • Colby tied the game up at 2-2 in the bottom of the third as Henry Silva led off with a double and scored on a sacrifice to make it a one-run game before Myles Gythfeldt singled to left for an RIB scoring Corey Aubuchon who had reached on a walk.
  • After a scoreless fourth and fifth from both sides, Southern Maine pushed three runs across the plate in the top of the sixth.  With one out, Quinn Dillon and Carter Higgins each singled to right before coming around to score on a pair of Colby throwing errors. After the Mules issued an intentional walk to Douin to give USM runners on first and third, Keblinsky drove in a run with an RBI ground up for a 5-2 Husky lead.
  • In the seventh, Colby's Aubuchon knocked an RBI single through the left side off of USM junior Carson Black in relief making it a 5-3 game; however, Southern Maine came back for two runs in the top of the eighth. Higgins started the inning with a lead off singled and moved to third on a walk and a wild pitch. After Douin was issued another intentional walk, Keblinsky picked up another RBI with a strong at-bat earning a walk to score Higgins. The Huskies scored one more on a double-play ball for a solid 7-3 lead.
  • Aubuchon came through again for Colby in the bottom of the eighth with a two-out two-run single to right, making it an 7-5 game, but Southern Maine's Douin drew an RBI walk in the top of the ninth to bring the Huskies' lead back to three, 8-5. 
  • In the Mules' final turn at bat, Hudson responded after yielding a lead-off single with back-to-back strikeouts before ending the game on a fly ball to right for the 8-5 final, and save.
 
Inside the Box Score
  • Junior Carter Higgins finished the game 2-for-3 at the plate with two runs scored and two walks in his Husky debut. Higgins also had a stolen base.  Four players made their Husky debuts in today's game: Evan Baschnagel, Caleb Vacchiano, Higgins, and Hudson.
  • Southern Maine combined to turn three double-plays in the contest.
 
Up Next:
The Huskies will return to action on Thursday, March 12 (4:00 pm) in Florida against Russell Sage College as part of the RussMatt Invitational.  Southern Maine will play eight games in Florida before returning to the Northeast and traveling to UMass Dartmouth for a Little East Conference doubleheader on Saturday, March 21 (12:00 pm).
 
 
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