Mainers Show No Quit in Comeback Victory
June 8, 2023 - New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL)
Sanford Mainers News Release
KEENE, NH - Call them the comeback kids.
In a back and forth affair at Alumni Field, the Sanford Mainers came from behind on three separate occasions to capture an 8-5 victory over the Keene SwampBats.
After stranding two runners on base in the top of the first inning, the green and yellow fell behind in the bottom of the frame as Aidan Corn (Pasco Hernando) scored on a dropped third strike that allowed Blake DeLamielleure (Jacksonville) to reach first base.
Two innings later, Kevin Skagerlind (UMass Amherst), who fell one hit-by-pitch shy of tying the Mainers' record a season ago, was hit by a pitch and Nick Roselli (Binghamton), drove a single into the outfield and advanced to second on the throw to put two runners in scoring position. After Jack Kartsonas (Kent State) struck out the next two Mainers, Cam Johnson (North Carolina Asheville) delivered a two-RBI single to go ahead 2-1.
Keene did not stay down for long though as Alec Ritch (Middlebury) deposited a two-run home run, which also scored Joseph Salvo (Samford), over the center field fence for a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the fourth.
Yet again, just two innings later the Mainers not only tied the game, but took the lead when Devan Bade (Binghamton) and Matt Miceli (Stony Brook) both delivering RBI singles to take a 4-3 lead.
As was customary in this one, Keene came back in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game as Zack Given (UMass Amherst) walked a runner in with the bases loaded. The bases remained loaded as Matt Brown-Eiring (Stony Brook) stepped to the plate, but Given did not give in, getting Brown-Eiring to ground to his Stony Brook teammate, Miceli, for a double play.
In the bottom of the seventh, the Swamp Bats took the lead behind a 383-foot blast off the bat of DeLamielleure, but that would be the last of their scoring.
It was also the shortest lived lead for the SwampBats as the Moose scored three runs in the next half-inning to take a lead. It started with a Skagerlind RBI single to tie it, but it was Roselli's two-run triple that proved to be enough to take down Keene.
Nick Thompson (Colby College) and Zach Johnston (Wake Forest) both threw scoreless innings in the eighth and ninth, respectively, while Eddie Eisert (Virginia Tech) added an RBI double to cap off the 8-5 victory.
The Mainers return to action tomorrow with their home opener at Goodall Park against Upper Valley.
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