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Mountaineers Come Up Short Against Keene, 6-5, On Thursday

July 27, 2023 - New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL)
Vermont Mountaineers News Release


Vermont Mountaineers' Aidan Risse on the mound
Vermont Mountaineers' Aidan Risse on the mound
(Vermont Mountaineers, Credit: Cierra Loomis, Digital Media/Photography Director)

KEENE, N.H. - The Vermont Mountaineers were unable to complete the comeback, falling to the Keene Swamp Bats by a score of 6-5 on Thursday night from Alumni Field.

The Mountaineers dropped to 24-14-1 with their lead in the North Division shrinking to two games over the Sanford Mainers. The Swamp Bats, who were already eliminated from postseason play, improved to 14-27. Vermont won the season series 4-3, after clinching it on Tuesday night at home.

After two scoreless innings of baseball, Vermont used the long ball in the third to take a 3-0 lead. Santino Rosso doubled to right field with two outs. Aaron Whitley walked and Rosso moved to third on a wild pitch. Nate Stocum belted his fifth home run of the season, scoring the first runs of the game.

Keene answered back in the bottom of the fourth with a pair of home runs to take a 6-3 lead. Greg Bozzo hit a three-run blast with no outs to tie the game. With runners reaching on a single and a walk, Aidan Risselooked to escape further damage getting back-to-back fly outs. However, Devin Taylor had the big blow as he hit the second home run of the inning to give the Swamp Bats the lead off of reliever Max Moss.

No more runs were scored until the seventh and eighth innings when Vermont came within a run. In the seventh, Tyler Cox singled and moved to second on a ground out. He scored on an RBI single by Rosso to make it 6-4. In the eighth frame, Nathan Goranson reached first after being hit by a pitch. He moved to second on a walk, third on an error by the pitcher, and then came across to score on a sacrifice fly by Andre Martinez.

The Mountaineers looked to rally in the ninth as Rosso picked up his third hit of the game with one out. Keene's Sam Portnoy held off the comeback attempt with back-to-back strikeouts to end the game.

The Mountaineers wrap up the regular season with five home games in three days, starting on Friday, July 28th with the Sanford Mainers. First pitch for the seventh game of the season series is 6:30 p.m. The co-sponsors are Subway- Berlin and GBA Architecture & Planning for volunteer appreciation night and special Olympics night. There will be a pregame ceremony for our yearly awards. You can follow all the action on the NECBL Broadcast Network here.

For continuing coverage of the Vermont Mountaineers, bookmark thevermontmountaineers.com and follow the Mountaineers on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and on TikTok.




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Vermont Mountaineers' Aidan Risse on the mound
Vermont Mountaineers' Aidan Risse on the mound
(Cierra Loomis, Digital Media/Photography Director)		   



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