OLD TOWN – The last time Bangor and Old Town softball teams faced each other at the high school field here, the Eastern Maine Class A playoff game went to 14 innings and Bangor escaped with a victory.

Some of the faces have changed, but Tuesday’s regular-season matchup between the Indians and the Rams brought back memories of last year – especially with pitchers Jen Jimmo and Sarah Metivier in the circle for Bangor and Old Town, respectively, and especially when the game went into extra innings.

Only this time it ended in nine, and with a 6-5 Old Town win.

Shaunessy Saucier’s RBI single scored Missy Dorr from second base and lifted the undefeated Indians to their sixth win. Bangor falls to 5-1.

Old Town had a 4-0 lead in the top of the seventh but the Rams piled on five runs to take their first lead of the game.

“We know how well-coached Bangor is, how good they are,” Old Town coach Mike Thurston said. “We expect these kinds of games with them. … It would have shocked me if we finished up 4-0.”

The Indians answered back in the bottom of the inning to tie it at 5-5. The two teams played a scoreless eighth in which Metivier worked out of a bases-loaded jam, and into the bottom of the ninth.

Dorr, who had flied out twice and been pinch-hit for in the sixth, led off the inning with a line-drive single to left-center. Metivier got Dorr to second on a sacrifice bunt – her second of the game. After Bangor third baseman Kerri Tuck caught a hard-hit shot by Meghan King for the second out, Saucier stepped to the plate with no nerves.

“I was impressed by how calm everyone was,” Saucier said. “No one was nervous. It was great.”

Saucier drove a single into right field and Dorr took off from second. The Rams tried for a play at the plate, but the throw was off-line and a little too late.

“I was just chugging, going as fast as I could go,” Dorr said.

Bangor’s comeback seemed imminent; after all, these two teams battle almost every time they play, and the Rams had already stranded eight baserunners through six innings.

Ashley Tower’s leadoff single sparked the seventh-inning rally. Megan Huckins drove in one run on a double, and Jimmo and Shelby Soohey had an RBI single apiece.

“We had hit the ball fairly well in the early innings, but didn’t follow it up,” Bangor coach Lisa Richards said. “We talked about putting a string [of hits] together, station-to-station, and everybody had to pull through. We had some kids really step up in big situations. I was very pleased with the way we fought back.”

Old Town’s Metivier singled, stole second and scored on an error in the seventh to tie it up again.

Indians 6, Rams 5 (9 inns.)

Bangor (5-1) Old Town (6-0)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Tuck, 3b 5 1 3 0 King, c 5 1 2 1

Jimmo, p 4 1 1 1 a-Garrity 0 0 0

Dube, c 5 0 0 0 Thibodeau, 2b 0 0 0

Huckins, 1b 5 1 4 1 S. Saucier 2b-ss 5 1

Soohey, dh 4 0 1 1 Higgins, lf 4 1 0

c-C. Chase, rf 0 1 0 0 Ouellette, 1b 4 1

e-Smith 0 0 0 0 Paul, ss-2b 4 0 0

Warner, cf 5 0 1 0 Randall, cf 3 0 0

Johnson, 2b 5 0 1 0 Perry, 3b 4 1 0

Holland, lf 5 0 0 0 Dorr, rf 3 1 0

Tower, ss 5 1 1 0 b-L. Saucier 1 0 0

Metivier, p 2 1 1 0

Totals 43 5 12 3 35 6 7 3

a-ran for King in the fourth, ran for Higgins in the seventh; b-flied out for Dorr in the sixth; c-ran for Soohey in the seventh; d-ran for Higgins in the seventh; e-hit by pitch for Soohey in the eighth

Bangor 000 000 500 ? 5

Old Town 003 100 101 ? 6

E?Johnson 2, Tuck, Jimmo; Paul 3, Metivier; LOB?Bangor 13, Old Town 5; 2B?Johnson; King, Ouellette; S?Metivier 2; SB?Huckins 2; Metivier

Bangor IP H R ER BB SO

Jimmo (L, 3-1) 9 7 6 1 1 1

Old Town IP H R ER BB SO

Metivier (W, 5-0) 9 12 5 3 1 4

HBP?Smith by Metivier; T?1:50; ATT?125 (est.)