The baseball season is just getting started and teams are looking to limit mistakes and strengthen areas in their games.
Game results for April 23-29 are as follows:
Houlton 7, Mattanawcook Academy 8 — It was a close game on Monday at Houlton Community Park as it took extra innings to declare a winner.
The Lynx led 4-0 until Houlton tied the game in the fifth. The score stayed even until Mattanawcook scored three runs in the eighth inning to pull out the win, as Houlton answered with only a pair of runs.
Pioneer Times photograph/Gloria Austin
OFF THE MARK — Southern Aroostook third baseman Gage LeFay reaches for the ball, which was thrown off the mark when Limestone’s baserunner stole in last Saturday’s game in Dyer Brook. The Warriors lost 11-0.
Austin Smith picked up the win for Mattanawcook and Riley Coburn scored four runs.
For the Shires, Billy Phillips and Kole Buzzeo each had three hits.
Hodgdon 15, Fort Fairfield 0 — On Monday, the Hawks’ offensive balance and pitching depth combined to shut out the visiting Tigers.
Hodgdon pitchers combined for nine strikeouts and allowing just one hit by Fort Fairfield’s Austin Bernier.
The 4-1 Hawks were led from the plate by Matt Harmon, who singled, doubled and tripled driving in four runs Josh Hudson doubled and singled twice for two RBIs. Sam Horton singled and drove in three runs, while Nick Lunn singled and tripled to bring in a run.
The Hawks built a 5-0 lead after three innings and erupted for a 10-run fourth in a five-inning game called by the mercy rule.
Hodgdon 9, Van Buren 1 — Last Thursday in Hodgdon, Lunn, Horton and Tyler Sherman combined for a one-hitter, while striking out 13 to top Van Buren.
Drew Gough doubled twice for two RBIs, while Harmon singled twice for two RBIs and Sherman had a pair of hits to drive in a run for the Hawks.
Hodgdon took their victory in the fourth, as both teams were scoreless over the next two and a half innings.
Katahdin 6, Schenck 4 —Travis Porter ripped his second run-scoring single of the game during a two-run seventh inning to give Katahdin the win at East Millinocket on Saturday.
Jordan Russell earned the win in relief of Bill Livezey for Katahdin.
The game was tied at 4-all in the sixth.
SACS 6, Hodgdon 5 — Last Tuesday in Hodgdon, SACS led 5-3 in the fourth, but the Hawks put a scare into the Warriors in the bottom of the seventh, scoring two runs, as SACS survived the rally.
The Warriors’ Trent Cullinan struck out 10. He was backed at the plate by Cody Lassonde who singled for two RBIs; Gage Lefay and Dylan Porter each singled and drove in a run.
Lunn stroked a two-run home run, while Josh Hudson doubled twice and Anthony Mazzacco hit an RBI-single for the Hawks.
SACS 0, Limestone/MSSM 11 — In Dyer Brook on Saturday, the Warriors couldn’t seem to get out of their own way, as they committed fielding and base running blunders.
The Eagles posted a 7-0 lead in the second giving pitcher Chris Bernier a cushion, as he struck out eight, giving up two hits over five innings.
The only two hits for the Warriors were singles from Porter and Jesse Boulier.
