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The University of Maine baseball team completed a four-game sweep of Pace University when it won both games of a Sunday afternoon doubleheader, 7-4 and 8-3, at the Setters’ Finnerty Field in Pleasantville, N.Y.
The wins improved UMaine’s record to 15-7 as it prepares to open America East play next weekend at Northeastern University. Pace dropped to 4-21 with the losses.
In the first game, the Black Bears put up three runs in the first inning and held the lead the rest of the way. Alain Picard plated Mike Livulpi with the RBI single to left field, while Mike Ross drove in two more runs on a double to left field.
Game two of the doubleheader bore a lot of similarity with the first, as the Black Bears posted a lead in the first inning, built on it and held off the Setters for the 8-3 win.
UMaine scored a pair of runs in the first without any Black Bear hits or Pace errors after Simon Williams reached on a walk and moved to second after Picard was hit by a pitch. The pair moved up one base on a double steal, then advanced again on a balk which scored Williams. Picard crossed the plate on a grounder to third by Joe Drapeau. After the Setters responded with one run in the bottom of the first, UMaine pushed three runs across in the second.
Run production was not a problem for the UMaine baseball team in its Saturday afternoon doubleheader at Pace University.
The Black Bears downed the Setters 14-0 in game one and 18-12 in game two at Finnerty Field in Pleasantville, N.Y.
In the first game, sophomore righthander Mike Collar fanned seven Pace batters in a two-hit, complete game outing. The effort was Collar’s second complete game shutout of the season.
Mike Livulpi led the offense going 2-for-5 with three runs batted in. Joe Drapeau also chipped in with three RBIs in a 2-for-3 performance.
In game two, the Black Bears overcame a 7-0 deficit and took the lead with a seven-run fourth inning. UMaine put the game away with nine runs in the seventh inning, keyed around two home runs by Simon Williams.
