Baseball falls 10-5 at Southern Maine despite Prince's grand slam
A first-inning grand slam for junior Henry Prince was not enough for Bates baseball on Monday, as they fell to University of Southern Maine by a score of 10-5.
GORHAM, Maine -- A first-inning grand slam for junior
Henry Prince was not enough for Bates baseball on Monday, as they fell to University of Southern Maine by a score of 10-5.
The Bobcats came out of the gates hot, junior captain with
Keagan Ryan (Salem, N.H.), senior
Jack Margiloff (Rye, N.Y.), and sophomore
David Swift (Yarmouth, Maine) reaching base without a hit, and Prince (McLean, Va.) turned on a fastball, sending it screaming over the left-center field fence.
In the bottom of the first, Southern Maine hit two home runs, one of them a grand slam, to take the lead. This was only the second time in NCAA Division III baseball history that two teams hit grand slams in the same inning.
First-year
Joe Williams (Georgetown, Mass.) came on in relief in the second and righted the ship with a gutsy performance, tossing five innings and allowing just two more runs while dealing with multiple nagging injuries. The first-year right-hander tallied four strikeouts. Fellow reliever junior
Henry Kolani (Tarrytown, N.Y.) threw two innings of one run ball with one strikeout.
Bates scratched one back in the seventh off a Ryan double, with Margiloff singling him to third, and senior
Gibby Sullivan (Yarmouth, Maine) lifting a sacrifice fly to pull within 7-5.
Prince's grand slam was the lone bright spot on an otherwise forgettable day. Ryan was active on the bases as usual, finishing 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a stolen base.
The Bobcats have now lost three straight for the first time this season and will look to get back on track Tuesday as they head to Standish, Maine to face Saint Joseph's College at 3:30 p.m.