Augusta West, Cape Elizabeth notch 3rd wins Lincoln, E. Biddeford advance

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BANGOR – Augusta West and Cape Elizabeth collected their third wins in the state Little League baseball tourney at Taylor Field Monday and advanced to the single-elimination semifinals Wednesday along with East Biddeford and Lincoln.

Augusta West and Cape Elizabeth concluded pool play in the six-team tournament for ages 11-12 with 3-0 records while East Biddeford and Lincoln wound up 1-2.

East Biddeford will face Cape Elizabeth at 3 p.m. Wednesday with Lincoln and Augusta West squaring off at 5:30.

The winners will meet in Thursday’s 5 p.m. championship game.

In Monday’s games, Cape Elizabeth beat Lincoln 12-2, Augusta West topped East Biddeford 9-1 and Rockland blanked Coastal 10-0.

Rockland finished 1-2 but lost the tie-breaker to Lincoln because Lincoln beat them 4-1 earlier in the tourney.

Coastal wound up 0-3.

Cape Elizabeth 12, Lincoln 2

Finn Melanson scattered four hits over four innings, striking out eight and walking three, and lead-off hitter Matt Rand doubled and singled, drove in two runs and scored twice.

Rand’s two-run double keyed a seven-run third inning that broke the game open.

Ben Brewster, Tanner Garrity and Sam St. Germain each doubled and drove in a run for Cape Elizabeth. Brewster and Matt Weiss scored a pair of runs apiece.

Ethan White had two singles for Lincoln with Ivan Voisine and Brendan Crocker having the other hits, both singles.

Lincoln (1-2) 002 0 – 2 4 5

Cape Elizabeth (3-0) 317 1 – 12 9 0

White and Bernier; Melanson and Weiss

Augusta West 9, East Biddeford 1

Shortstop and leadoff hitter Jacob Lachance belted three homers and drove in six runs and Ryan Minoty and Garrett Lucas teamed up on a four-hitter, striking out nine and walking three, as Augusta West triumphed.

Lachance led off the game with homer that triggered a three-run rally, he blasted a two-run homer in the fourth and capped his day with a three-run shot in the four-run fifth.

Minoty knocked in two runs with a homer and a bases-loaded walk and Lucas singled twice.

Trevor Fleurent, Tom Mourmoras, Keith Petrin and Craig Anton singled for East Biddeford.

Augusta West (3-0) 300 240 – 9 10 0

East Biddeford (1-2) 001 000 – 1 4 1

Minoty, Lucas (6) and Vallee; Petrin, Black (6) and White

Rockland 10, Coastal 0

Dana Tolman tossed four innings of two-hit baseball, and helped his own cause with two singles and two RBIs to pace Rockland.

Anderson Murphy homered and doubled, scored three times and drove in a run; Joey Nelsen doubled and singled; Jeff Jordan knocked in two runs with a double and a sacrifice fly and Lucas Smalley had a single and two RBIs.

Lucas Morrill and Nathan Hopkins contributed doubles. Morrill had an RBI.

Joe Carter and Sam Sheehan singled for Coastal’s hits.

Rockland (1-2) 143 2 – 10 12 0

Coastal (0-3) 000 0 – 0 2 1

Tolman and Murphy; Pal, Corriveau (4) and Kane

State baseball, 15-16

Bucksport 5, Falmouth 3

At Bangor’s Mansfield Stadium, Alex Yates scattered nine hits, allowing just one earned run while striking out four and walking two, as Bucksport advanced to the championship round against Auburn Suburban.

Bucksport, now 1-1, will take on 2-0 Auburn Suburban today at 5 p.m. If Bucksport wins, a deciding game would follow at 7:30 p.m.

Nick Swanson’s run-scoring double and Louden Jellison’s RBI single in the sixth inning gave Bucksport a couple of important insurance runs.

Swanson also had a single.

Sam Barnes had two doubles and a single for Falmouth. Mike Simpson had two singles, Josh Parks tripled and Matt Lotfey doubled.

Falmouth (0-2) 010 001 1 – 3 9 1

Bucksport (1-1) 020 102 x – 5 6 3

Simpson, Parks (6) and Witkowski; Yates and Jellison

State baseball, 13-14

South Portland 5, Auburn 1

At Mansfield Stadium in Bangor, Will Furbush allowed only one run on three hits while walking just one batter to help South Portland advance to Wednesday’s championship against undefeated Saco (3-0) at 5 p.m.

If South Portland (2-1) wins that game, then the if-necessary game would follow at 7:30 p.m.

Furbush faced the minimum number of hitters through the first five innings and then South Portland broke the game open in the sixth with three runs on one hit and four Auburn errors. Furbush aided his own cause in the rally with an RBI double.

Corey Davis chipped in with a triple, two singles and two RBIs for the winners and Furbush also singled.

Eric Prue doubled and singled for Auburn.

South Portland (2-1) 001 013 0 – 5 7 0

Auburn (2-2) 000 000 1 – 1 3 7

Furbush and Davis; Muise and LaRue