2008 Woodie Awards
Baseball weekend wrap-up
Black Bears lose Stonybrook series, 1-3
Adam Clark
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Maine Sports
Baseball is a game of breaks - sometimes they go in your favor, and other times they don't. Over the weekend, the University of Maine baseball team hosted the second-place America East team, the Stony Brook Seawolves.
After coming back from an 8-1 deficit on Friday to defeat the Seawolves, UMaine dropped both games of a doubleheader on Saturday, despite having the winning run either on base or up to the plate in the last inning.
The Black Bears won Friday's nine-inning game 10-8 before falling 5-4 and 4-2 on Saturday's seven inning games.
In Friday's game, Curt Smith hit a go-ahead, two-run home run to break a tie in the seventh inning to put UMaine up for good. Smith's home run, his 10th of the season, capped off a nine-run seventh inning for the Black Bears, who were down 8-1 heading into the inning.
"It's a great win," Head Coach Steve Trimper said. "What happened is the guys never gave up, and there were no panic buttons pushed."
Danny Menendez started off the inning for UMaine with a single before Smith drew a walk. Myckie Lugbauer then laced a two-run double to right center to cut the lead to 8-3. Lugbauer made it 8-4 when he advanced to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch.
"We had a never-quit attitude [and] had some good quality at-bats," Trimper said. "It's something we had been working on this past week."
Following a walk by Tony Patane and single by Jarrett Lukas to left, Kevin McAvoy walked to load the bases. After a wild pitch that advanced all the runners and scored Patane, Billy Cather singled up the middle, driving in two runs.
Down by only one run, Menendez, who led off the inning, hit an infield single. Cather scored on an error by the shortstop, advancing Menendez to second base and tying the game.
Smith gave UMaine their first lead when he blasted the first pitch over the left field fence to make it 10-8.
"I was just looking for the fastball inside, and he threw me the first pitch inside and I put a good swing on it," Smith said.
After coming back from an 8-1 deficit on Friday to defeat the Seawolves, UMaine dropped both games of a doubleheader on Saturday, despite having the winning run either on base or up to the plate in the last inning.
The Black Bears won Friday's nine-inning game 10-8 before falling 5-4 and 4-2 on Saturday's seven inning games.
In Friday's game, Curt Smith hit a go-ahead, two-run home run to break a tie in the seventh inning to put UMaine up for good. Smith's home run, his 10th of the season, capped off a nine-run seventh inning for the Black Bears, who were down 8-1 heading into the inning.
"It's a great win," Head Coach Steve Trimper said. "What happened is the guys never gave up, and there were no panic buttons pushed."
Danny Menendez started off the inning for UMaine with a single before Smith drew a walk. Myckie Lugbauer then laced a two-run double to right center to cut the lead to 8-3. Lugbauer made it 8-4 when he advanced to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch.
"We had a never-quit attitude [and] had some good quality at-bats," Trimper said. "It's something we had been working on this past week."
Following a walk by Tony Patane and single by Jarrett Lukas to left, Kevin McAvoy walked to load the bases. After a wild pitch that advanced all the runners and scored Patane, Billy Cather singled up the middle, driving in two runs.
Down by only one run, Menendez, who led off the inning, hit an infield single. Cather scored on an error by the shortstop, advancing Menendez to second base and tying the game.
Smith gave UMaine their first lead when he blasted the first pitch over the left field fence to make it 10-8.
"I was just looking for the fastball inside, and he threw me the first pitch inside and I put a good swing on it," Smith said.
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