BATES BASEBALL TAKES TWO FROM MAINE FARMINGTON

LEWISTON, Maine -- The Bates College baseball team (8-18) got a pair of outstanding pitching performances from juniors Drew Blicharz (Rutland, Vt.) and James Hanley (Pawtucket, R.I.) en route to a doubleheader sweep of in-state rivals Maine-Farmington (13-16). The Bobcats won 5-2 in the first game and 2-1 in ths second.

In game one, Blicharz tossed his third complete game of the season, allowing just six hits and two earned runs in seven innings, striking out three and walking two. He allowed just two hits through the first six innings. The Bates offense was paced by junior RF Austin Philbin (Clinton, Mass.), who was 1-4 with three RBI, including a two-run inside-the-park homer run in the sixth, his first round-tripper of the season. Sophomore 2B Pat Collins (Walpole, Mass.) reached base in all three plate appearances, singling one, walking twice and scoring three runs. UMF was led by sophomore 3B Jeff Bird (Standish, Maine), who was 2-3 with an RBI and a double.

In game two, Hanley was effective working out of trouble. In six and a third innings, he scattered nine hits, allowing a single run in the third when Bird led off with a double and scored three batters later on a sacrifice fly by first-year CF Mike Wilcox (Bangor, Maine). The score stood 1-0 until the bottom of the fifth, when sophomore 1B Matt Pound (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Collins hit back-to-back singles with one out, scoring on an RBI base hit by Philbin and a sacrifice fly by senior 3B Scott McAuliffe (Concord, N.H.). Hanley allowed two hits in the sixth, but induced a fly out and a ground out. In the seventh, he gave up singles to Bird and senior 1B Bryan Cox with one out, before giving way to sophomore lefty Kevin Walsh (Wakefield, Mass.), who struck out the only two batters he faced to earn his first save of the season.

Game 1
Bates 5, UMF 2

                 1 2 3   4 5 6   7       R   H   E 
UMF (13-15) 	 0 0 0   0 0 0   2   -   2   5   1
Bates (7-18)     0 0 1   2 0 2   X   -   5   8   2  

Pitching
UMF - Greg Merrill and Brian Sawyer.
BAT - Drew Blicharz and Ben Donaldson.
W - Blicharz (3-4)
L - Merrill (1-3)

Batting
2B - UMF, Jeff Bird.
HR - BAT, Austin Philbin (1).
Multiple Hitters - UMF, Bird, Marc O'Clair. BAT, Ben Donaldson.
LOB - UMF, 7. BAT, 7.

Game 2
Bates 2, UMF 1


                 1 2 3   4 5 6   7        R   H   E 
UMF (13-16)      0 0 1   0 0 0   0    -   1   9   0
Bates (8-18)     0 0 0   0 1 0   X    -   2   7   0

Pitching
UMF - Willie Walton and Jason Cushman.
BAT - James Hanley, Kevin Walsh (7) and Ben Donaldson.

W - Hanley (2-2)
L - Walton (0-3)
S - Walsh (1)

Batting
2B - UMF, Jason Bird. 
Multiple Hitters - UMF, Bird, Cushman, Nick Potts. BAT, Austin Philbin 3.
LOB - UMF, 12. BAT, 4.