EAST BOSTON – Suffolk baseball's offense was limited to a single inning as pitching and double plays factored into the Rams 8-3 setback to Roger Williams in the nightcap of a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) doubleheader at East Boston Memorial Park Saturday.
THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 3 | Roger Williams 8
RECORS: Suffolk (10-8, 1-4 CCC) | Roger Williams (17-1, 4-0 CCC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Similar to the opener, Suffolk found itself down four early. The Rams managed to make their way onto the board in the bottom of the fourth. Christian Seariac and Harry Painter traded singles with outs, which sent Luke Harder to the plate with two dead and a runner in scoring position. The right fielder doubled to right field to score Seariac. Both Painter and Harder capitalized on a bobble by the Hawks' short stop when Blase Cormier put the ball into play to score a run apiece and pull the host within one, 4-3.
Roger Williams extended the edge back to a pair in the seventh and Suffolk saw a chance to get something going in the home half of the inning, however, Jonny Gilbride grounded into a double play to keep the gap at 5-3.
The Hawks scored twice in the eighth and one more in the ninth to grow their cushion to five. Roger Williams handle things from the hill as its relievers retired Suffolk's side in the final two frames for the 8-3 final.
PITCHERS PICTURE
- Nick Reiser allowed five runs on eight hits and three walks with four stirkeouts over 7.0 innings to slip to 1-2 on the year.
- Jake Washock (0.2 IP, 2 R, 4 H, 1 K) and Pierce Salbeo (1.1 IP, 1 R, 1 H, 1 BB) came out of the pen for the Rams.
- Chris Flynn registered the win behind an eight-hit, no-walk, seven-strikeout effort in 6.0 innings in which he allowed one earned run.
- Kyle Schaefer shoved 2.0 innings of relief, while Lucas Lariviere tossed 1.0 stanza. Both Schafer and Lariviere had scoreless, hitless outings.
- Schaefer allowed one walk and fanned on batter.
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
- Harder had two hits including one double, one RBI and one run scored.
- Seariac supplied two hits and scored once.
- Painter provided one hit and one run.
- Marc Birbiglia, Cormier and Shane Lake rounded out the Rams with hits with one each.
NOTEWORTHY
- Painter pushed his hit streak to nine games. In that span he has 16 hits.
POST-GAME PIC
WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk wraps up its seven-game stretch over five days tomorrow, Sunday, April 3 when it hosts Lasell in a non-conference twinbill in Eastie. First pitch is set for 12 p.m.
