BANGOR – It’s always nice to give your ace some runs to work with, especially in your season-opener.

The Bangor High School Rams supplied standout junior right-hander Josh Young with 17 runs, thanks to six Nokomis High School errors, and Young responded with five innings of one-hit ball in a 17-0 triumph at Mansfield Stadium Friday.

The game was called after 41/2 innings due to the mercy rule.

“I thought I had decent stuff,” said Young, who was 5-1 with a 2.05 earned-run average during the regular season last spring. “I didn’t throw many curves because they weren’t hitting my fastball that great. I just tried to keep it in the zone so they could hit it because I have the defense behind me.”

The Rams made just one error behind Young, who struck out five and walked two while throwing 46 strikes among his 71 pitches.

“He looked pretty decent today, but he wasn’t overpowering,” said Nokomis senior catcher Justin Nichols.

Bangor jumped on the Warriors for two first-inning runs and six more in the second.

“We didn’t make the plays early and when you do that against Bangor, you can’t expect to win,” said Nokomis coach Gene Crockett, whose team beat Old Town 6-3 in its season-opener on Tuesday.

“It wasn’t a good day for us. We’ve had two different teams show up: one at Old Town and a totally different one today,” added Crockett.

Nate Hall opened Bangor’s first inning by drawing a walk and stealing second. Nick Larochelle reached on an error and Brian Worster singled home Hall with a pop fly single into left. Larochelle went to third on a wild pitch and scored on Brian Hackett’s groundout.

In the second, Andy Treadwell reached on an error and losing pitcher Mike Jacques hit P.J. Dowe and Mike Larochelle to load the bases.

Hall hit a grounder to third baseman Ben Hawthorne’s left and Hawthorne, after squaring himself, overthrew home plate, allowing Treadwell and Dowe to score.

Nick Larochelle then drilled an opposite-field single into right center to drive home two more.

“I thought he’d go with a fastball to try to get ahead in the count with men on base. That’s what he did,” said Larochelle.

A Young single and a wild pitch produced the final two runs of the inning.

Jessefa Murphy doubled and singled and drove in two runs for Bangor and Worster had two singles and an RBI. Young drove in two runs and T.J. Tracy chipped in with a two-run single.

Matt Fraser’s soft line drive single to center in the second was Nokomis of Newport’s only hit.

RAMS 17, WARRIORS 0

Nokomis (1-1) Bangor (1-0)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Nichols, c 3 0 0 0 Hall, rf 1 3 0

Vile, 2b 1 0 0 0 a-Jos. Heath 2 0 0

Davis, cf 2 0 0 0 N. Larochelle, 2b 3 2

Sawyer, rf-ss-p 2 0 0 0 b-Dennis 1 0

Mullis, 1b-p 1 0 0 0 Worster, cf 3 1 1

M. Jacques, p-1b 2 0 0 0 c-Fergerson 0 0

Hopkins, rf 0 0 0 0 Murphy, dh 3 2 2

Donaldson, ss-p 2 0 0 0 d-Jor. Heath 0 0

Fraser, lf 2 0 1 0 Hackett, 3b 1 1 1

Hawthorne, 3b 1 0 0 0 e-Prentiss 1 1

MacKenzie, 3b 1 0 0 0 Young, p 2 2

f-Tracy 1 0 1 2

Treadwell, lf 3 1 0 1

g-Derosa 1 0 1 1

Dowe, c 1 1 0 0

h-Gallant 0 0 0 0

M. Larochelle, 1b 3 1 0

Totals 17 0 1 0 Totals 26 17 10 13

a-flied out and grounded out for Hall in 4th; b-singled for N. Larochelle in 4th; c-walked for Worster in 4th; d-walked for Murphy in 4th; e-singled for Hackett in 4th; f-singled for Young in 4th; g-singled for Treadwell in 4th; h-walked for Dowe in 4th

Nokomis 000 00 ? 0

Bangor 265 4x ? 17

E?Hawthorne 2, Mullis, Donaldson, M. Jacques, Nichols; N. Larochelle; LOB?Nokomis 4, Bangor 8; 2B?Murphy; SB?Hall 2, Treadwell

Nokomis IP H R ER BB SO

M. Jacques (L,1-1) 2 4 8 1 2 3

Mullis 1 2 5 2 2 1

Donaldson 1/3 4 4 4 3 0

Sawyer 2/3 0 0 0 0 1

Bangor IP H R ER BB SO

Young (W,1-0) 5 1 0 0 2 5

HBP?Dow, M. Larochelle by Jacques; WP?Jacques 2, Donaldson, Young; BK?Donaldson; PB?Nichols; T?2:10; ATT?55 (est.)