Webber helps Husson eliminate Lyndon State

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BANGOR – Husson College unveiled the new lights at the John Winkin Baseball Complex Thursday night.

And Husson freshman righthander Bob Webber turned the lights out on Lyndon State College’s season.

Webber threw his first collegiate shutout, striking out eight and walking one, and the Braves scored four third-inning runs en route to an 8-0 Sunrise Conference Tournament victory over the Hornets.

Fisher College from Boston had beaten Lyndon State 8-2 earlier Thursday.

Top seed Husson, 25-15, and No. 2 Fisher, 27-18, will play at 2 and 6 p.m. on Friday and a championship game, if necessary, will be played at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Lyndon State finished at 9-18.

“I mixed up my pitches,” said Webber, who improved to 4-1. “I had my fastball and curve going and my splitter worked pretty well tonight. The first inning was my best inning. I got into a zone after that.”

“This was one of his top performances,” said Husson catcher and co-captain Jason Folsom. “He hit the outside corner real well.”

“He had good breaking stuff,” said Lyndon State catcher and RBI leader Travis Casey.

Lyndon State coach Skip Pound said Webber kept his hitters off balance with his offspeed pitches.

Webber, the former Cony High of Augusta All-Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference selection, threw 74 strikes among his 103 pitches.

Justin Spencer, Folsom and Kyle Mathieu drove in two runs apiece while Mathieu and Billy Kane were the game’s lone repeat hitters with two singles.

Husson scored an unearned run in the first when Aaron Brideau reached on an infield error, stole second, moved to third on Adam Sheehan’s grounder to second and scored on Spencer’s grounder to short.

Chris McInnis opened the four-run third inning by walking and Brideau bounced an infield single in front of the plate.

Losing pitcher Tim Feerick threw late to second on Sheehan’s bunt to load the bases and, one out later, Feerick hit Folsom in the helmet to force in a run.

Mathieu’s infield single and Kane’s soft line-drive single to left center produced runs and Steve Estes walked with the bases loaded to cap the rally.

Folsom singled in a fourth-inning run and Husson added two more in the sixth on Sheehan’s double, Spencer’s RBI fielder’s choice and Mathieu’s run-scoring single.

Casey, Nick Merrill, Rory Whittemore, Mike Swan and Adrian Guyer singled for the Hornets and Feerick pitched a respectable eight-hitter.

Center fielder Spencer’s diving catch in the first, first baseman Kane’s lunging snare in the eighth and a couple of gems by shortstop Sheehan prompted Mathieu to call it “our best defensive game of the year.”

In the tourney opener, Jarlin Gomez tossed a six-hitter to even his record at 5-5, striking out nine and walking two, and Anthony Arias had four singles and three RBIs to power Fisher.

Jeremy Marion and Alfredo Torres had two singles each for Fisher while Greg Rose had a double and two singles for Lyndon State.

BRAVES 8, HORNETS 0

Lyndon State (9-18) Husson (25-15)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Durso, 2b 4 0 0 0 Brideau, lf 5 2 0

Guyer, lf 4 0 1 0 Sheehan, ss 5 2 0

Rose, cf 4 0 0 0 Spencer, cf 5 3 2

Merrill, 1b 4 0 1 0 Folsom, c 3 1 2

Casey, c 3 0 1 0 Mathieu, 3b 4 0 2

L. Feerick, dh 4 0 0 0 Kane, 1b 4 1

Whittemore, ss 4 0 1 0 Estes, dh 3 1

Putnam, 3b 2 0 0 0 Henderson, 2b 2 0 0

Ryan, ph 1 0 0 0 Ouellette, ph 1 0 0

Lawrence, 3b 1 0 0 0 McInnis, rf 2 0 0

Swan, rf 3 0 1 0

Totals 34 0 5 0 Totals 34 8 8 8

Lyndon State 000 000 000 ? 0

Husson 104 102 00x ? 8

E?Putnam, Whittemore, Casey; Kane, Sheehan; LOB?Lyndon State 8, Husson 8; 2B?Sheehan; SB?Guyer, Casey; Brideau, Spencer;

Lyndon State IP H R ER BB SO

T. Feerick (L, 2-4) 8 8 8 6 3 4

Husson IP H R ER BB SO

Webber (W, 4-1) 9 5 0 0 1 8

HBP?Folsom 2 (by T. Feerick); WP?T. Feerick 3 T?2:04; ATT?150 (est.)