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Carter Higgins Batting for Southern Maine
James Liebowitz
5
Mass.-Boston MASS.-BO 15-12
7
Winner Southern Me. SOUTHERN 19-5
Mass.-Boston MASS.-BO
15-12
5
Final
7
Southern Me. SOUTHERN
19-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Mass.-Boston MASS.-BO 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 5 7 2
Southern Me. SOUTHERN 3 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 X 7 8 3

W: Black, Carson (5-0) L: Alex Meesig (2-2) S: Keblinsky, Peter (2)

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

Higgins Homer Delivers Huskies’ 7-5 Win Over Beacons

GORHAM, Maine   - Sophomore Carter Higgins (Truro, Nova Scotia/Cobequid Educational Centre) launched a two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh, and senior Jack Bruno (Upton, Mass.) and junior Peter Keblinsky (Ellsworth, Maine) each threw a scoreless inning of relief as the University of Southern Maine Huskies defeated the UMass Boston Beacons 7-5 in a Little East Conference baseball game Tuesday afternoon at Ed Flaherty Field.
 
Junior Carson Black (Porter, Maine/Sacopee Valley) earned the win for the Huskies to improve to 5-0.  Black went seven innings allowing six hits, two walks and three earned runs while striking out six. Keblinsky earned his second save of the season pitching a scoreless ninth.
 
Records:
UMass Boston (15-12, 5-3 LEC)                                                    000 101 300    5-7-2
Southern Maine (19-5, 9-1 LEC)                                                    302 000 20x    7-8-3
 
Pitching Records:
WP: SM, Carson Black, (5-0), 7.0 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 Ks, 1 HR
LP:  UMB, Alex Meesig (2-2), 1.2 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 Ks, 1 HR
SV:  SM, Peter Keblinsky (Sv, 2), 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
 
How It Happened :
  •  With Black retiring the Beacons in order to start the game, Southern Maine used the bottom the first two take an early 3-0 lead on four hits.  Junior Evan Baschnagel (Garden City, NY/Chaminade) led off with a single to right, and snagged his team-leading 19th stolen base of the season. After a fly ball to center moved Baschnagel to third, Keblinsky drove in the first run of the game with a single.  Sophomore Caleb Vacchiano (Cornish, Maine/Sacopee Valley) followed with an infield single before a Beacon fielding error led to the Huskies having runners on second and third with two outs.  With runners in scoring position, sophomore Drew Scialdone (Amesbury, Mass.) delivered with a two-run double to left to score both Vacchiano and Keblinsky.
  • After a scoreless second, Black had another 1-2-3 inning the top of the third keeping the Huskies up 3-0, heading into the bottom of the inning. In the third, Southern Maine added two more runs to lead 5-0.  Vacchiano singled through the right side and after a hit-by-pitch to Scialdone, both runners collected a stolen base to make it runners on second and third with one out.  Senior Mike Anquillare (North Haven, Conn.) picked up an RBI with a ground out to short to score Vacchiano, while freshman Kaiden Morin (Brewer, Maine) singled in Scialdone.
  • UMB broke up the shutout scoring an unearned run in the top of the fourth.  Elliot Miles, who singled to right to reach safely, stole a base and then moved to third on a fielder's choice play. A two out fielding effort from the Huskies allowed Miles to touch home for a 5-1 game.
  • After a quiet fifth, the Beacons pushed another run across the plate to cut their deficit to three runs. The Beacons first two base runners reached on a hit-by-pitch and a single from Brandon Gaer, before moving up to second and third on a passed ball.  Black got a pop out for the first out, but Ben Sherry hit a sacrifice fly to left for an RBI and a 5-2 game.  With a runner still in scoring position, Black got the final out via strikeout.
  • The Huskies had just one base runner in the sixth, and the game quickly moved to the top of the seventh.  Black recorded the first out with a strikeout looking before allowing a walk and a single through the left side from Dylan Agvent for two UMB baserunners.  UMB's Nick Farnacci put a charge into the ball sending it to left field, but Anquillare made a running stab for the second out. Black came back for the next hitter and had Elliot Miles down 0-2 in the count before yielding a three-run home run to left to tie the game.  The home run is Miles' eighth of the season.
  • With the game tied, Keblinsky led off the seventh drawing a five-pitch walk.  After a fly out kept Keblinsky at first, Higgins took his second pitch and put the Huskies up 7-5 sending the ball over center field for his third home run of the season.
  • Bruno relieved Carson to start the eighth and retired the Beacons in order sandwiching two fly outs around a strikeout.  USM also went down in order in the eighth, sending the game to the ninth with a 7-5 Husky lead.  Keblinsky started the ninth with a swinging strikeout before allowing a double to Chase Beloin and a walk to Dylan Agvent.  Keblinsky got the second out with a slow grounder to first and then intentionally walked Miles to load the bases.  With three on and two outs, Keblinsky protected the two-run lead forcing a pop up to short stop to end the game.
 
Up Next:
 Southern Maine remains home and host Endicott College on Wednesday (3:30 pm), and then Bowdoin College on Thursday (7:00 pm).   
 
 
 
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