Third Seed Baseball Advances in MASCAC Tournament with 10-1 win over Second Seed Mass. Maritime

Buzzards Bay, Mass. – The third seed Framingham State University baseball team tallied two runs in the top of the sixth to take the lead for good en route to a 10-1 victory over second seed Massachusetts Maritime Academy in a second round game of the 2018 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) Baseball Tournament.

With the win, the Rams improve to 19-17 on the season and advance in the winner's bracket of the tournament. The Rams will face top seed Westfield State on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in Westfield.  Mass. Maritime (18-14) falls into the loser's bracket and will face Salem State tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. in Westfield in an elimination game.

Framingham State junior Kyle Hodgson (Berkley, Mass.) and Mass. Maritime's John Teehan were locked in a scoreless pitcher's duel through five innings.  Teehan struck out 10 through the first five, while Hodgson struck out five and allowed just four hits.

The Rams finally got on the board in the top of the sixth with a pair of runs.  Senior Cameron Borrelli (Peabody, Mass.) singled in the first run and classmate Kyle Pileski (Bristol, Conn.) followed with a sacrifice fly.

The Rams continued to build their lead with a single run in the seventh and four in the eighth.  Junior Kyle Lippert (Carlsbad, Calif.) plated a run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh.  Pileski and junior Matt Fogarty (Millis, Mass.) delivered RBI singles in the eighth and a double play ball accounted for the final run of the frame.

The Buccaneers got on the board in the bottom of the eighth in the bottom of the eighth on a solo homer to right center by Logan Sullo, but the Rams added three more in the top of the ninth to reach the final margin.

Hodgson went the distance en route to earning his fourth victory of the season on the mound. Hodgson allowed just one earned run on five hits with six strikeouts and a walk.

Teehan took the loss going seven innings allowing three earned runs on four hits with 11 strikeouts.

Borrelli finished the game with three hits and three RBI for the Rams, while Fogarty recorded a pair of hits and added two RBI.  Pileski drove in a pair of runs, while junior Aaron Williams (Brockton, Mass.) collected three hits and scored three times.