LAKE MYRTLE, Florida   – Senior Mike Anquillare (North Haven, Conn.), senior Kyle Douin (Augusta, Maine/Cony) and junior Gabe Gifford (Bradley, Maine/Old Town) each homered for the University of Southern Maine Huskies in a 16-1 seven-inning win over the Lakeland University Muskies on Friday afternoon at the RussMatt Invitational in Florida. Anquillare hit a triple as well. The Huskies had strong pitching for freshman Hayden Strout (Charleston, Maine/Foxcroft Academy) as the rookie struck out three batters over four innings of work while allowing just one run in his first collegiate appearance.
 
The Huskies recorded 16 hits, including six for extra-base hits, and scored in six of the seven innings. Eight of the teams runs came in the fourth innings. Every member of the starting lineup recorded a hit with juniors Evan Baschnagel (Garden City, NY), Quinn Dillon (Gorham, Maine), Carter Higgins (Truro, Nova Scotia), Peter Keblinsky (Ellsworth, Maine), freshman Kaiden Morin (Brewer, Maine) and sophomore Drew Scialdone (Amesbury, Mass.) joined Anquillare and with multiple hits on the day.
 
J.T. Cortinas and Mikey Hernandez each had two hits for the Muskies.  
 
Records:                                                                                        
Southern Maine (2-1)                212 820 1   16-16-1
Lakeland (6-8)                           000 100 0   1-5-1
 
Today's game is the first meeting between the Southern Maine and the Lakeland University Muskies.
 
Pitching Records:
WP: Hayden Strout (1-0), 4.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB 3 K
LP:  Bryce Backus (0-2), 3,1 IP, 6 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 3 BB, 1 K
SV: None
 
 
 
How It Happened:

• The Huskies scored twice with two outs in the top of the first to take an early lead. Sophomore Caleb Vacchiano (Cornish, Maine/Sacopee Valley) singled to score Keblinsky, who drew a walk. Vacchiano then scored on a triple by Scialdone.
• Baschnagel drove in Morin with a single for the only run of the second inning. The Huskies added another pair of runs in the third on RBI singles by Dillon and Higgins.
• The Muskies got their first hit off Strout with two outs in the bottom of the third when Cortinas singled. An error by Southern Maine then loaded the bases before Strout was able to force a ground out to end the inning.
• Southern Maine pounded out eight runs on seven hits in the fourth thanks largely to three-run homers by Anquillare and Douin. Dillon also had a two-run single in the inning
• Lakeland got on the board with an RBI groundout by Chris Finn in the bottom half of the fourth. Strout ended his afternoon by picking off Rily Roberts to close out the inning after giving up a single.
• Gifford kicked off the fifth inning with a pinch-hit home run, his first as a Husky to make the lead 14-1. Morin then pushed the lead to 15-1 with a single that scored senior Chris Quigley (Halifax, Mass./Silver Lake Regional).
• Freshman Benjamin Miller (Rehoboth, Mass./Dighton Rehoboth Regional) made the first appearance of his career and threw shutout innings in the fifth and sixth while striking out one batter.
• Morin added another RBI single in the top of the seventh after a triple by Anquillare to start the inning. Senior Nate Burnett (Rollinsford, NH/St. Thomas Aquinas) pitched a flawless seventh inning with a strikeout and two flyouts to end the game.

 
Inside the Box Score

• Douin is the first Husky with multiple home runs on the season after homering in each of the past two games. He now has 27 in his career and is tied for fifth in program history.
• The Huskies reached base after being hit by a pitch five times in today's game. Vacchiano accounted for two of those instances. 

 
Up Next:
Southern Maine continues on its spring break trip at the RussMatt Invitational on Saturday (3:00 pm) with a doubleheader against Oneonta. The Huskies play twice on Monday facing Ripon College at 10 am, and then No. 6 Salve Regina at 1:30 pm. On Tuesday, Southern Maine takes on Ramapo in a doubleheader beginning at 11 am.