BANGOR – When your varsity baseball team finishes the season with five wins and 11 losses, postseason usually means time spent at the beach, playing golf, and/or summer job hunting.

So it was with a slightly different mindset from most of his teammates and opponents that Belfast’s Jake Arthers played in Friday night’s Larry Mahaney Baseball Classic at Husson College’s Winkin Complex.

“I just wanted to play a lot. Not a lot of people saw me play since we didn’t have the best record, so this means a lot,” said the recent graduate of Belfast High School.

Arthers didn’t log a lot of time in the annual senior all-star game, but made his limited time in the field count as he reached base on a three-base error with two outs in the bottom of the sixth and then scored on a delayed double steal.

Arthers and the rest of his East teammates would have to wait out a 48-minute thunderstorm delay that interrupted – and then ended – the game with one out in the top of the seventh before finding out that his run would be the winning run in the East’s 4-3 victory over the West.

“I’d just entered the game a half inning before that. I was pretty nervous,” said Arthers, who will play baseball for the University of Southern Maine next season. “I got a full count and just wanted to put the ball in play and I got lucky with the catcher throwing the ball over the first baseman’s head.”

“On the steal, I watched to make sure the throw went through and just took off.”

The run made a winning pitcher out of Orono’s Max Winter, who entered the game in relief in the sixth. Winter walked the first two batters and then struck out the next three.

“I couldn’t really throw strikes. I was throwing high because my arm was kind of tired,” Winter said. “I was just trying to throw strikes with fastballs and a couple curves and I guess they chased a few.”

As good as it was for Winter, Friday’s game failed to take the sting out of a mercy-rule shortened playoff loss by Winter’s Red Riots squad.

“This is nice, but it doesn’t really make up for it,” said Winter, who plans to try to make the University of Massachusetts-Amherst team as a walk-on next fall. “Personal accomplishments do not matter when your team’s bad.”

Old Town’s Dana Leland also got a chance to distinguish himself and he did so in a big way.

Leland, along with Kyle Bussiere from Edward Little of Auburn, were the only two players to get two hits in the game.

“I never expected to get two hits, but it was an honor to be in the game since I never expected to be on the roster,” said Leland. “There are a lot of great players here.”

Leland, who is also playing ball at USM next season, hit an RBI double to left center in the second inning to tie the game 1-1 and singled in his next at-bat to open the fourth.

The East scored two runs in the fourth to tie the game again after the West scored twice in the third on three singles and a walk. Jon Flynn from Lawrence of Fairfield reached on a fielder’s choice and Hunter Caron of Houlton hit a one-out single to set up a two-run triple to left by Bussiere.

Brunswick’s David Longley also enjoyed a solid inning on the mound by striking out the side in the second. In all, East pitchers tallied 10 strikeouts.

West 102 000 0 – 3 4 1

East 010 201 x – 4 7 1

Leach, Gatzogiannis (2), Smith (3), Harwood (4), Emerson (5), McCray (6) and Norton, Johnson (6); Miles, Longley (2), Yates (3), Adams (4), Healey Adams (4), Healey (5), Winter (6), Farrar (7) and Leland, Marks (5)