BANGOR – The Old Town-Orono Twins used a potent offense to force a second game for the title with a 19-5 victory over the Bangor Comrades in the Zone 1 American Legion tourney at Mansfield Complex Sunday night.

The Twins, coming out of the losers bracket after a Saturday loss to Bangor, eliminated Calais on Sunday 18-4 to set up the nightcap with the Comrades, who came out the winners bracket.

The Comrades and Twins will play for the title at 5 p.m. here today.

By virtue of reaching the final, Bangor and Old Town-Orono earned Zone 1’s two automatic berths to the state Legion tourney which begins this Saturday at Harrison.

In Sunday’s first game, Trenton eliminated Calais 17-13. On Saturday, Trenton eliminated Brewer 7-5 and Bangor nipped OT-Orono 4-3 in 13 innings to earn its state-tourney berth.

In Sunday’s nightcap, Bryan Goody and Evan Stinson had three hits apiece and Goody drove in four runs as the Twins unleashed a 16-hit attack at the expense of a depleted Bangor pitching staff to force Monday’s final. Righthander Cory Young scattered 10 hits to notch the complete-game win and he knocked in three runs to aid his own cause.

Goody’s bloop two-run single broke a 3-3 tie in the second inning and Stinson lined a two-run single into left center in the third before an eight-run fourth inning rally put the game away.

The Twins earned the chance to defend the state American Legion championship they have won the previous three years by beating Calais in Sunday’s second game.

John Montgomery’s three-run triple in the first inning keyed a four-run rally that erased a 2-0 deficit and sent the Twins to victory.

Bangor had clinched its second straight state tourney berth by nipping the Twins 4-3 in 13 innings Saturday evening.

Nate Martell’s two-run single staked Calais to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first before the Twins answered with four in the bottom of the first to take a lead it never relinquished.

A walk, a hit batsman and an infield error set the stage for Montgomery’s long triple over right fielder Shirl Penney. Montgomery scored on another infield error.

Joe Viselli’s two-out triple and Brian Chamberlain’s base hit cut the lead to 4-3 in the top of the second, but the Twins scored nine unanswered runs over the next four innings to put the game away.

Evan Stinson’s triple and Andy Trice’s RBI fielder’s choice re-established a two-run lead for the Twins in bottom of the second.

Old Town-Orono got three in the third, four in the fourth and one in the fifth.

A walk, singles by Ray Houston and John Powers, Stinson’s RBI base hit and a throwing error by shortstop Brian Chamberlain accounted for the third-inning runs.

A combination of two walks, two Chamberlain errors, singles by Tim LePage and Robey Rhoads and a run-producing wild pitch resulted in the four fourth-inning runs.

A bases-loaded walk to Stinson in the fifth built the lead to 13-3.

The Twins parlayed seven hits, eight walks and seven Calais errors into their 13 runs. Nine of them were unearned. The Twins added their final five runs in the seventh.

Ray Houston went the distance for the win, overcoming a shaky start.

He allowed eight hits and three runs over the first four innings but settled down and didn’t allow another hit.

Houston aided his own cause with three base hits. Montgomery drove in four runs and Stinson went two-for-two with four runs scored.

Brian Chamberlain and Randy Mercier each had two hits for Calais.

(Sunday’s first game) Calais (2-1) 000 680 300 – 17 12 5 Trenton (1-2) 140 240 101 – 13 16 6

Raye, Peabody (2), Carver (4), Mercier (5), Sherman (5) and Martell; Worcester, McFarland (5), Salyer (5), Curtis (7) and Pert

(Sunday’s second game) Calais (2-2) 210 000 001 – 4 8 3 OT-Orono (2-1) 413 410 50x – 18 13 2

Shippee, Carver (4), Mercier (5), Penney (5), Sherman (7) and Martelle; Houston and LePage

(Sunday’s third game) Bangor (2-1) 120 100 100 – 5 10 7 OT-Orono (3-1) 232 803 10x – 19 16 2

Reynolds, Jamieson (3), Shaw (4), Wilcox (5) and Perry, Nill (6); Young and Goody

Saturday win put Bangor in

Tommy Waterman said he has been slumping of late.

And he was “kind of discouraged” about his error that set the stage for Jared Foster’s game-tying sacrifice fly in the ninth inning of the winners bracket game between his Bangor team and archrival Old Town-Orono.

But the 15-year-old Waterman atoned.

His two-out single in the 13th inning drove in Andy Robichaud from second to give Bangor the 4-3 victory and state tourney spot.

Mike Wilcox walked to open the 13th and Robichaud reached on an error by pitcher Montgomery on his bunt. Two outs later, Waterman grounded a 2-1 pitch into right.

“I had gotten him out with an inside fastball earlier so I tried to come in with the same pitch again,” said Montgomery. “But he hit it good.”

“I figured he would throw me a fastball because he didn’t want to go down 3-1 in the count,” said Waterman. “It was down and inside and that’s where I like the ball. It was a good pitch and I turned on it.”

Waterman, who played important roles for Bangor High School’s state championship basketball and baseball teams as a freshman this school year, called Saturday’s win one of the best of his career.

Josh Pressley’s RBI single and Waterman’s sacrifice fly had staked Bangor to a 2-0 lead before run-scoring singles by Tim LePage and Evan Stinson tied it in the seventh.

Justin Perry put Bangor ahead with a run-scoring single in the eighth before Old Town-Orono tied it in the ninth on a walk, a sacrifice by John Powers, Waterman’s error on Stinson’s grounder and Foster’s sacrifice fly.

Bangor coach Steve Vanidestine and Old Town-Orono Coach Dave Paul said the game was a memorable one.

“If you can’t enjoy playing in a game like that, you don’t enjoy baseball,” said Paul, who used 14 players and had only two players finish the game in their original positions.

“People told me when I was leaving Mansfield that it was the best game they had ever seen at Mansfield,” said Vanidestine. “It was a great game.”

Andy Trice, who pitched 10 strong innings for Old Town-Orono, said it was “the best game I’ve ever pitched in.”

Andy Robichaud picked up the win in relief of Mark Alaimo.

(Saturday’s first game) Trenton (1-1) 001 100 203 – 7 11 3 Brewer (0-2) 040 000 100 – 5 6 0

Brown and Pert; Campbell, Stewart (9) and Wentworth

(Saturday’s second game) Bangor 100 100 010 000 1 – 4 13 3 OT-Orono 000 000 201 000 0 – 3 6 3

Alaimo, Mick (7), Robichaud (7) and Perry; Trice, Montgomery (11) and LePage, Goody (9)