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The University of Maine baseball team continued its road successes this weekend with a pair of wins against the Pace University Setters in Pleasantville, N.Y. Saturday.
The Black Bears’ record now stands at 14-6, and they ran their winning streak against the Setters to 15 games with a 5-1 win in the early game and a 2-0 win in eight innings in the nightcap.
In the first game, UMaine starting pitcher Mike McDonald (3-2) went the full seven innings, his first complete game of the season, with the help of strong offensive performances by seniors Brett Ouellette and Jesse Carlton.
Ouellette went 3-4 with a home run and three runs batted in, and Carlton added a pair of RBI on a double in the third inning.
Pace plated its only run in the third on an RBI single by Paul Bonaros. Patrick Stanley (2-2) picked up the loss for Pace, tossing six innings.
The second game was a pitcher’s duel all the way, but UMaine’s Mike Collar came away the victor with a sparkling performance.
Collar’s eight-inning, one-hit, 15-strikeout effort was just enough for the Black Bears to prevail in the late game.
Senior Joe Drapeau’s two-out, two-run double followed singles from Brett Ouellette and Alain Picard in the top of the eighth giving UMaine the lead and giving Collar all the runs he needed.
Pace pitcher Jim Smith was equally impressive until the eighth, when Black Bear batters began to knock him around. J.C. Pullum broke up Collar’s no-hit bid with a two-out single in the third inning.
The teams played a doubleheader Sunday afternoon as well. Results were not posted
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