McGraw powers Black Bears to split with Lions

loading...

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Matt McGraw hit three singles and drove in three runs to lead the University of Maine to a 16-6 win over Columbia University to earn a split of their college baseball doubleheader Friday.

Columbia took the opener 7-6 for its first victory of the year.

In the first game, Dan Neczypor hit a home run and had two RBIs for the Lions, and Mike Malfettone had three singles.

Curt Smith doubled and singled with two RBIs for the Black Bears. Joe Hough doubled and scored, and Kevin McAvoy drove in two runs.

In the second game, Joel Barrett hit a double and two singles and had two RBIs for Maine, and Danny Menendez added three singles and two RBIs. McAvoy homered and singled to drive in a pair of runs.

Craig Rodwogin had two singles and scored twice for Columbia, and Kyle Roberts hit two singles.

(First Game)

Columbia 000 050 2 – 7 12 5

Maine 300 021 0 – 6 7 2

Scarlata, Oleksak (6), Walther (7) and DeFazio; Martin, Tesseyman (7) and Parker

(Second Game)

Maine (9-7) 0(10)2 110 2 – 16 18 1

Columbia (1-12) 003 001 2 – 6 11 3

Robinson and Parker; Perkins, Lewis (2), Farrell (5) and Joss

Ripon sweeps Saint Joseph’s

At Temple Terrace, Fla., Mac Shumann hit an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning to break the tie and lead Ripon College to a 3-2 win in the opening game. Ripon also won the second 9-5.

In the first game, Shumann doubled and singled for Ripon.

Andrew Dvilinsky paced Saint Joseph’s College of Standish with a double and a single. Charlie Furbush struck out 11.

In the second game, Bob Abel tripled, doubled, and singled to drive in two runs for Ripon, and Tyler Haddock homered.

Dvilinsky had two singles and two RBIs for the Monks, and Rockland’s Wade Oliver doubled and singled to knock in a run.

(First Game)

Saint Joseph’s 002 000 0 – 2 6 2

Ripon 000 101 1 – 3 6 1

Furbush and Wood; Haddock and Schwendiman

(Second Game)

Ripon (8-3) 045 000 0 – 9 9 2

Saint Joseph’s (5-4) 005 000 x – 5 7 2

Basthemer and Schwendiman; Lambert, Pooler (3), Chapman (3), Hughes (4)

Softball

Maine drops two

At Tampa, Fla., the University of Maine dropped a pair of games to begin the Speedline Invitational. Canisius College topped the Black Bears 5-4, and Florida International University won 6-4.

In the first game, Katie Miranto hit a two-run home run to tie the game at 4-4 for Canisius and later scored the go-ahead run on a Jamie Gerace double.

In the second game, Florida International scored three times in the sixth and added two more runs in the seventh to take a 6-3 lead.

Brittany Cheney singled and homered to knock in three runs for the Black Bears and Ashley Waters singled twice and scored two runs.

Sarah Bennis took just her second loss of the season by allowing four earned runs on nine hits while striking out eight and walking two.

Saint Joseph’s sweeps

At Cape Coral, Fla., Gabrielle Burrola hit two home runs and a single to drive in five runs and lead Saint Joseph’s of Standish to a 21-3 win over Nichols in the second game. The Monks shut out North Park 8-0 in the first game.

In the first game, Kim Bechard tripled and singled and scored two runs for the Monks, and Colby McKenney added three singles and scored twice.

In the second game, Amanda Roy tripled and doubled to drive in three runs for Saint Joseph’s, and Leanne Morton had two singles and three RBIs. Megan Farrell, Audra Cushman, and Colby McKenney each added two singles.

Jennifer Dudney homered and tripled for Nichols.

(First Game)

North Park (5-5) 000 00 – 0 1 2

Saint Joseph’s 032 12 – 8 11 0

Dillon and Berg; Delahanty and Grindle

(Second Game)

Saint Joseph’s (4-4) 235 74 – 21 18 0

Nichols (6-4) 200 01 – 3 6 3

Burrola and Daugherty; Bannon and Cullity