BANGOR – Willemstad, Curacao, righthander Dmitri Eugenia said he didn’t have a good curve against Vilnius, Lithuania, in their Senior League World Series game Wednesday night because he was having trouble gripping the ball.

“It was too cold,” said Eugenia.

So the hard-throwing Eugenia stuck with his fastball and hurled five innings of three-hit, shutout baseball as Curacao triumphed 9-0 in Pool B play.

Curacao improved to 2-1 while Vilnius finished up at 0-4.

“My fastball was good tonight. It was dominant,” said Eugenia, who struck out three and walked three while throwing 39 strikes among his 68 pitches.

“He controlled the [strike] zone. He put his pitches where he wanted to. He had quite a good fastball,” said Vilnius righthander Lukas Deksnys, who absorbed the loss.

Lefty Andrew Wanapa finished up with two innings of one-hit relief, striking out five and walking one.

Deksnys was touched up for five runs in the third inning to break the game open as Curacao parlayed two walks, four singles, five stolen bases and an error into the five-run uprising.

“They stole bases many times. It was hard to catch them. They’re very fast,” said Deksnys.

“We hadn’t been hitting the ball well so we tried to bunt [runners] over so we could get them in,” said Curacao second baseman Kevin Moesquit.

Curacao, which was shut out 3-0 by Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday, finished with nine stolen bases.

“We tried another style of play. We tried to reach base more, do more bunting, hit-and-runs and stealing bases,” said Curacao manager Roque Bernadina.

“We played better today,” said shortstop-pitcher Arunas Dankdvskis.

Willie Rifaela and Christopher Garia walked to open the inning and Rifaela scored all the way from second on Dursley Ignacio’s bunt single.

Garia stole third and scored when catcher Gytis Martunas committed a throwing error on Ignacio’s steal of second.

Moesquit grounded an opposite-field single to right to score Ignacio.

Jonathan Schoop and Curtney Doran capped the rally with run-scoring singles as Schoop ripped a line drive base hit to left and Doran reached on an infield base hit into the shortstop hole.

Lithuania had a golden opportunity to cut into a 5-0 deficit in the fourth when Lukas Bradauskas one-hopped the left field fence with a long, one-out double. Valentinas Krukis walked and Dankdvskis beat out a bunt single.

The close play at first on Dankdvskis was disputed by Curacao so Bradauskas tried to score while the argument ensued. However, first baseman Bradauskas alertly threw to the plate to nail him.

“The [third-base] coach didn’t tell me to do it. I should have stayed at third,” said Bradauskas.

One walk later, shortstop Schoop ranged far to his left to track down a ground ball and he gunned his throw to first to end the threat.

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LATIN AMERICA 9, EMEA 0

Curacao (2-1) Lithuania (0-4)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Garia, rf 1 1 0 0 Vilbikas, 2b-ss 3 0 0

Celestyn, ph 1 0 0 0 Augustins, lf-1b-2b 3 0

Ignacio, cf 3 1 2 1 Bradauskas, 1b-p 3 0

Liberia, rf 0 1 0 0 Krukis, cf 2 0 0

Moesquit, 2b 4 2 2 1 Dankdvskis, ss-p 2 0

Profar, 3b 3 0 0 1 Deksnys, p-lf 2 0 0

Schoop, ss 4 2 1 1 Kolduba, 3b 3 0 0

Leondra, 1b 2 0 0 0 Martunas, c 2 0 0

Rojer, ph-1b 0 1 0 0 Sereicikas, rf 1 0 0

Doran, lf 3 0 2 1 Maciulis, rf 2 0 0

Eugenia, p 2 0 0 0

Hendrik, ph 1 0 0 0

Wanapa, p 1 0 1 2

Rifaela, c 1 1 0 0

Rondei, c 0 0 0 0

Totals 26 9 8 7 Totals 23 0 4 0

Latin America 005 000 4 – 9

EMEA 000 000 0 – 0

E-Bradauskas, Dankdvskis, Krukis, Martunas; LOB-Latin America 5; EMEA 6; 2B-Bradauskas; DP-EMEA; SF-Profar; SB-Ignacio 2, Doran 2, Moesquit, Garia, Schoop, Rondei, Liberia

Latin America IP H R ER BB SO

Eugenia (W) 5 3 0 0 3 3

Wanapa 2 1 0 0 1 5

EMEA IP H R ER BB SO

Deksnys (L) 3 5 5 5 3 0

Bradauskas 3 1/3 2 4 1 4 0

Dankdvskis 2/3 1 0 0 0 1

HBP-Rondei by Bradauskas; WP-Wanapa; BK-Wanapa; PB-Martunas; T-2:09; ATT-400