BEVERLY, Mass. – In a game that featured nine homers, Suffolk came out on the wrong side in the battle between the bomb squads as Endicott defeated the Rams 13-7 Friday afternoon in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) action at North Field.  

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 7 | Endicott 13
RECORDS: Suffolk (10-6, 1-2 CCC) | Endicott (13-4, 1-0 CCC)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
Dingers did damage for both sides early on which saw Endicott with a 6-4 edge with three innings in the books. Suffolk started from the get-go- when Joe Ward and Harry Painter barreled back-to-back bombs. Ward slugged a three-run shot to right, while Painter place a jack to center. Christian Seariac and Garret Roberts, who each singled, came in on Ward's first four-bagger. 

Kyle Grabowski's three-run jack to left center in the home half of the inning brought the Gulls within one of the Rams, 4-3.  

After a scoreless second, Nicolas Notarange got in on the home run game with a three-run blast to push Endicott ahead, 6-4. The host added an additional tally in the third when Dylan Pacheco got in a run-down between first and second, Nickolas Perkins, who was waiting on the third, sauntered in to put the Rams in three-run hole.  

John Mulready blasted a solo shot to start the fourth and just like that the distance was doubled, 8-4. 

Ward went long for the second time on the day with a lead off shot to start the sixth and pull Suffolk back within three. A pair of errors by Endicott's second baseman Pacheco allowed the inning to stay alive. With Harder on second due to the fielding miscues, Blase Cormier brought him in with a single to left center. The first Rams non-extra base hit RBI of the day helped the blue-and-gold get back within two, 8-6.  

Jonny Gilbride joined the long-ball gang with a lead-off goner in the seventh. The Rams fourth dinger of the day made it a one-run game, which Michael James Jr. preserved in the bottom of the inning. The reliever retired the side with two consecutive punchouts to end the inning and keep Suffolk within one, 8-7. 

Max Tarlin had a shutdown inning for the Gulls to hold his team in front before insurance came for the home team in the bottom of the eight. Mulready's second homer of the day came in the form of a three-run jack, and Caleb Shpur's two-run no-doubter down the left field line, padded Endicott's advantage to 13-7. 

Tarlin took care of business in the ninth as he retired the Rams in order and sealed Suffolk's setback fate. 

PITCHERS PICTURE

• Both of Suffolk's pitchers, Shawn Nosky and James, threw 4.0 innings with the six strikeouts evenly divided between the hurlers as well. 
• Nosky suffered the setback after allowing eight runs, seven earned, on six hits and two walks.
• James gave up five runs on seven hits and one walk. 
• Rian Schwede earned the win despite letting up seven runs, six earned, on eight hits with five punchouts in 6.0 frames. 
• Tarlin tossed 3.0 innings of scoreless, hitless relief with two walks and six Ks.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Ward was the only Ram with multiple hits with a 2-for-4 plate performance. Both of his hits went over the fence. The center fielder brought in four runs and scored twice. 
• Gilbride and Painter each provided one homer, one RBI and one run scored.
• Cormier chipped in one hit, one RBI and drew one walk. 
• Harder, Roberts and Seariac added one hit and one run apiece. 

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk notched its eighth game with multiple homers this season. 
• The four bombs in a single outing are the most since the Rams had four home runs in an 8-6 win at Curry March 31, 2016.
• The Rams have now recorded 19 home runs this year, the most dingers by the blue-and-gold since it struck for 30 in 2016. 
• Ward tallied his fourth and homers of the year. 
• Ward blasted two homers in the same game for the first time in his collegiate career. 
• Ward is the first Ram to have pair of round-trippers since Zack Aresty '21 did so at Endicott in the game one of the CCC Pod B Playoffs May 1, 2021. 
• Ward had his third straight game with two hits. 
• Ward recorded a personal-best four RBI.
• Gilbride supplied his second shot of the season. 
• Gilbride has a hit in three straight games. 
• Painter produced his sixth jack of the season, which is the most by a Suffolk student-athlete since Brady Chant '18 knocked six out of the park in 2018. 
• Painter extended his hit streak to seven outings. He has a baker's dozen hits over the last seven games.
• James secured career-best numbers on the hill in innings pitched (4.0), batters faced (18), and strikeouts (three). 
• Cormier (6 games), Harder (4 games) and Roberts (5 games) all extended their hit streaks. extended his hit streak to six games.  

POST-GAME PIC
 

WHAT'S NEXT?
After its five-game road stretch, Suffolk returns to the friendly confines of East Boston Memorial Park tomorrow, Saturday, April 2 for a CCC double feature with Roger Williams. Action in Eastie is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m.