ORONO – The third time was the charm Wednesday for Orono’s Pat Skall.
He singled in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning of the Red Riots’ 6-5 high school baseball victory over Foxcroft Academy.
After Stuart Cady hit a one-out triple and Chris Crockett was intentionally walked, Skall’s hard grounder toward the second-base hole scored Cady. It was the third time Foxcroft intentionally walked batters to get to Skall.
In the sixth, two batters were intentionally walked to load the bases after a one-out double before Skall grounded into a double play. In the eighth, David Means hit a two-out triple, two more batters were intentionally walked, and Skall grounded out.
For Orono, Means hit a two-run home run in the second, tripled, and singled. Cady, who pitched all 10 innings and threw 144 pitches, went 3-for-4 with two triples and a single and Skip Smith had a triple and double. Daryl Watson, Randy Kluj and Morgan Stinson each had a double and a single.
Kyle Wentworth led the Ponies with a double and two singles.
Foxcroft (5-11) 120 000 200 0 – 5 11 2 Orono (9-7) 102 002 000 1 – 6 14 3
Brown, Wentworth (6) and Smith; Cady and Berry
Valley 16, Bangor Christian 1
At Bangor, Joel Frigon two-hit Bangor Christian while striking out five to pick up the win.
Frigon also doubled and singled twice for four RBIs. Ryan Atwood and Jeremy Jones each singled twice and knocked in three runs. Chris Miller singled twice and had two RBIs.
Matt Conley singled and drove in one run for Bangor Christian. Mark Reitsman singled.
Valley (10-6) 322 36 – 16 13 1 Bangor Christian (5-10) 000 10 – 1 2 4
Frigon and Pierce; N. Conley and Harriman
Sumner 5, Dexter 2
At Dexter, Mike Cowperthwaite struck out eight and scattered eight hits to earn the victory.
Greg Ingalls knocked in the game-winner with a two-run double in the seventh inning. Ingalls also singled. Ben Huber hit a two-run single.
Mike Mountain tripled and singled twice for Dexter. Brock Kimball struck out 10 in the loss. Kimball singled twice and knocked in a run.
Sumner (14-2) 000 002 3 – 5 5 0 Dexter (8-7) 010 010 0 – 2 8 2
Cowperthwaite and Bickford; Kimball and Mountain
Piscataquis 16, Penobscot Valley 5
At Howland, Tom Shea singled four times and drove in three runs to lead Piscataquis of Guilford.
Buddy Leavitt added three singles and two RBIs for the winners. Scott DeCastro hit an RBI triple.
Heath Lemay doubled three times and had three RBIs for Penobscot Valley. Brad Thibodeau tripled and singled. Matt Dobson singled twice.
Piscataquis (3-13) 327 002 2 – 16 12 3 Penobscot Valley (3-11) 001 022 0 – 5 9 7
Martell, DeCastro (4) and Burgess; Miller, Hallett (3), Dobson (5) and Champion
George Stevens 7, Bucksport 6
At Blue Hill, John Lewandowski’s three-run homer with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning tied it and an infield throwing error, the third error of the inning, allowed the winning run to score as GSA rallied to knock Bucksport from the ranks of the undefeated.
Junior righty Toby Cole, who reached on a two-out error and scored the winning run, notched the complete-game win as he spaced eight hits, struck out six, and walked two.
Lewandowski had a single also, and Peter Collier had a two-run double for the Eagles.
Craig Harvey had a two-run homer, a solo homer, and a single for Bucksport. Peter Saunders added a two-run homer and Cameron Giroux walloped a solo shot.
Bucksport (15-1) 200 031 0 – 6 8 3 George Stevens (12-4) 003 000 4 – 7 5 2
C. Harvey, R. McHale (7) and Gilley; Cole and Jackson
John Bapst 4, MDI 0
At Bangor, Ryan Logan drove in the only runs the Crusaders would need with a two-run single in the third inning.
Ryan Lynch’s double in the fifth inning also drove in a run for John Bapst while Kyle Leighton had a pair of singles. Greg Hawes struck out five while pitching the shutout.
Jeff Roix and Derek Strout singled twice each for the Trojans.
MDI (3-12) 000 000 0 – 0 8 0 John Bapst (7-9) 002 110 x – 4 9 1
Archilles and Cunningham; Hawes and Waring
Central 7, Searsport 6
At Searsport, Adam Salvia belted a game-tying grand slam in the top of the seventh and Jason Allen’s two-out single drove in Andy Matulis with the winning run as Central rallied past Searsport.
Matulis hurled five innings of hitless shutout relief to pick up the win. Matulis had a double and two singles for the winners, and Andy Koncinsky had three base hits.
Aaron Tripp rapped a two-run homer and Travis Curtis had an RBI single for the Vikings.
Central (6-9) 001 001 5 – 7 9 2 Searsport (13-2) 420 000 0 – 6 6 5
Salvia, Matulis (3) and Kane; Ogden and Connor
Hampden 11, Brewer 8
At Hampden, Adam Waite hit a three-run homer and singled three times to lead the Broncos.
Tom Davis added a two-run homer and two singles in the winning effort. Pat Lacey hit a three-run homer and Nate Drummon hit a solo homer and doubled.
Andy Thomas and Bruce Morneault each doubled and singled for Brewer. Justin Spencer hit a two-run single.
Brewer (9-7) 510 020 0 – 8 8 3 Hampden (6-9) 035 201 x – 11 14 7
Thomas, Hatch (4) and McIntosh; Waite and Lacey
Stearns 10, Ellsworth 0
At Ellsworth, Darrin Daniels hurled a three-hitter, striking out seven through five innings, and delivered four runs with a two-run homer and a two-run single as Stearns triumphed.
Matt Montgomery had a two-run double and two singles for the Minutmen and Jaime Cote had a pair of base hits and two RBIs.
John Reed, Courtney Bunker and Derrick Awalt singled for Ellsworth.
Stearns (12-4) 021 43 – 10 11 1 Ellsworth (3-12) 000 00 – 0 3 1
Daniels and Folsom; Marjuck, Gott (4) and Awalt
Lee 6, Schenck 1
At Lee, Erik Worster held Schenck to three hits while striking out eight to pick up the victory.
Chris Carr led the Lee offense with a double, single, and three RBIs. Matt Corbin singled twice and doubled. Alex Nicholas and Travis Jacobs each singled twice.
Brad Hebert hit an RBI double for Schenck.
Schenck (4-9) 000 100 0 – 1 3 1 Lee (11-4) 100 410 x – 6 13 2
O’Donnell and Turcotte; Worster and Crocker, Jacobs (7)
Camden-Rockport 13, Erskine 1
At Camden, the Windjammers received five innings of three-hit baseball from lefty Jon Moro and homers from Mike MacDonald, Joah Peck, and Jay Seymour to advance to the Kennebec Valley Conference’s Class B final.
Moro struck out eight and walked five and contributed a double and two singles to the 13-hit attack. He had an RBI.
Peck had a single to go with his homer and knocked in four runs, MacDonald had a double along with his homer and had three RBIs, Seymour singled and homered and had two RBIs, and Travis Wadsworth singled twice and had an RBI.
Bill Osborne had an RBI single for Erskine.
Erskine 100 00 – 1 3 2 Camden-Rockport 121 53 – 13 15 1
Singleton, Geyer (4) and Osborne; Moro and Peck
Softball
Foxcroft 2, Orono 0
At Orono, the Foxcroft Academy Ponies scored two runs in the third and made them stand up as Cristy Scott pitched a seven-hit shutout.
In the third inning, Becky Warren hit a sacrifice fly to score the first run and Kristy Smith scored from third one out later on a throwing error.
Mandi Murray hit two singles for the Ponies.
Molly Dupere led the Red Riots with a double and two singles. Jessica Libby singled twice.
Foxcroft (8-8) 002 000 0 – 2 4 1 Orono (5-11) 000 000 0 – 0 7 1
Scott and Warren; Gavett and Libby
Sumner 19, Dexter 4
At Dexter, Jill Osier singled twice and tripled en route to three RBIs for Sumner of East Sullivan.
Meghan Philio added two singles and an RBI for the winners.
Shelly Gudroe hit a two-run tripled for Dexter. Laurie Walker hit an RBI single.
Sumner (9-5) 425 42 – 19 7 1 Dexter (2-14) 000 22 – 4 2 6
Osier, Willey (5) and Willey, Osier (5); Nelson and Dorman
Penob. Valley 12, Piscataquis 11
At Howland, Tammy McGinn and Jodi Curtis each had two-run singles to help Penobscot Valley overcome an 11-6 deficit.
Kalli Pulkkinen had four singles and four RBIs for Piscataquis of Guilford and Garnet Korsman doubled and singled and drove in two runs.
Piscataquis (5-10) 003 440 0 – 11 16 6 Penobscot Valley (6-9) 104 106 x – 12 7 1
Ga. Korsman and Watson; Doyon and Porter
Bangor Christian 5, Valley 4
At Bangor, two-run doubles by Rachel Sage and Renee Mick keyed a four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh that enabled Bangor Christian to erase a 4-1 deficit.
Sage and Mick each had singled to go with their doubles and Lari Sobey doubled. Mick hurled a three-hitter to register the win, striking out three and walking six.
Gena Roderick doubled for Valley with Erin Melcher and Breanna Belanger contributing singles.
Valley (5-8) 200 101 0 – 4 3 2 Bangor Christian (7-7) 000 010 4 – 5 8 3
Harrill and Roderick; Mick and Phinney
Hampden 5, Brewer 3
At Hampden, Bree Drummond and Sarah Lozito drove in a pair of runs each with singles as the Broncos scored four times in the fourth inning and then held off the Witches.
Sarah Aylward also drove in a run for Hampden Academy with a triple, and Jamie Wells limited Brewer to three hits.
Tami Corey had a pair singles and an RBI and Cara McEwen tripled for Brewer.
Brewer (9-7) 200 010 0 – 3 3 0 Hampden (11-4) 100 400 x – 5 6 1
Corey and McEwen; Wells and Sjogren
George Stevens 6, Bucksport 5
At Blue Hill, Jeanna Leclerc drove in the game-winner on a two-run single for George Stevens in the bottom of the seventh.
Sara Haney and Denise Erland each singled twice and drove in one run for the Eagles. Brooke Keniston held Bucksport to four hits and struck out eight. Lindsey Hermon hit an RBI single and Keniston singled twice.
Heather Pelletier hit a two-run homer and an RBI single for Bucksport.
Bucksport (13-3) 030 200 0 – 5 4 1 George Stevens (14-2) 000 040 2 – 6 12 2
Sheehan and Richards; Keniston and Leclerc
MDI 8, John Bapst 1
At Husson College in Bangor, Jen Gott singled and drove in two runs to lead the Mount Desert Island Trojans.
Mindy Kane added a single and a double for the winners.
Stacy Rudnicki singled twice and knocked in a run for John Bapst. Kristy Millard tripled.
MDI (9-6) 114 000 2 – 8 10 2 John Bapst (4-12) 100 000 0 – 1 5 0
Renault and Miller; Henderson, Johnson (4) and Novak
Central 21, Searsport 7
At Searsport, Missy Krawczyk hit a three-run homer and a two-run single to lead Central of Corinth.
Crystal Strout added four singles and two RBIs for the Red Devils. Trina Libby doubled twice and knocked in a run.
Erica Curtis doubled, singled twice and drove in two runs for Searsport. Tina Barton doubled and singled twice. Jessie Barton doubled, singled and had two RBIs.
Central (11-5) 073 308 – 21 21 2 Searsport (6-8) 200 410 – 7 11 4
Strout and Waniszek; Gracie and J. Barton
Penquis 13, Piscataquis 1
At Howland, Megan Russell hit a grand slam homer and Abbie Bowen fired a six-hitter as Penquis beat Piscataquis of Guilford.
Erynn Bailey and Alicia Gerrish had two hits and two RBIs apiece for the winners.
Garnet Korsman’s double and Greta Korsman’s RBI single led the Pirates.
Penquis (12-4) 311 80 – 13 7 2 Piscataquis (5-11) 000 01 – 1 6 1
Bowen and Gahagan; Ga. Korsman, Gr. Korsman (1) and Watson
Lee 14, Schenck 3
At Lee, Danielle Jipson doubled and homered en route to driving in two runs for Lee Academy.
Christina Krapf and Tori Nute each singled twice and had an RBI for the Pandas. Jenny Raymond hit a two-run double.
Angela Sherwood scored two runs for Schenck.
Schenck (0-14) 100 020 0 – 3 4 6 Lee (8-7) 720 230 x – 14 10 5
Farrington and Sherwood; Boulrisse, Budden (4), Moors (5) and Ham
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