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ANDOVER, Mass. – The Merrimack College baseball team suffered an 11-4 loss in the second game of its three-game series with the University of Massachusetts on Saturday at Greater Lawrence Technical School. The Warriors record on the year fell to 2-5 while the Minutemen improved to 4-2.
The Basics
Score: UMass 11,
Merrimack 4
Records: Merrimack (2-5) | UMass (4-2)
Location: Greater Lawrence Technical School | Andover, Mass. Â Â Â Â
Rapid Recap
- Merrimack did score first on Saturday. A sequence of a throwing error followed by a fielder's choice followed by a pass ball left freshman Bryant Skurbe standing on third with one out. Graduate student Thomas Joyce promptly hit a sacrifice fly to right, scoring the rookie to make it a 1-0 game
- Graduate student Dan Amidon ran into trouble in the top of the third. After the first two runners of the inning reached, UMass pushed both baserunners across via a sacrifice fly and RBI groundout. With two outs, however, the visitors were able to score two runs via three hits and a walk to take a 4-1 lead
- Freshman Tiernan Lynch relieved Amidon in the fourth, but only worked 1.2 innings as he allowed six runs. UMass led, 10-1, through five innings
- Graduate student Nick Shumski hit a two-run double in the sixth inning, and classmate Joey Porricelli knocked in a run via a fielder's choice in the seventh to account for the rest of Merrimack's production
Top Performers // Notes
- WP: Steele (2-0) | LP: Amidon (0-2)
- Joyce owned the team lead with two base hits, the only Warrior on the day with a multi-hit game
- Sophomore Jack Collins and junior LT Pare were bright spots out of the Merrimack bullpen, throwing the final 4.1 innings on Saturday. The only allowed one unearned run to score
Up Next:
The series finale commences tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. back at Greater Lawrence Technical School.
