CMCC Baseball Blasts Herons, Improves to 6-0 in YSCC

Auburn, ME – CMCC Baseball continued its stellar start to conference play, with the reigning YSCC Tournament champions improving to 6-0 to start the new campaign after sweeping Great Bay, 9-3 and 11-1, in a home doubleheader.

The games were closer than the scores appeared with the Herons hanging tough into the later innings of both contests before the Mustangs broke them open. The CMCC bats were definitely humming on a beautiful fall Sunday in Maine with a total of 20 runs, 19 hits, 18 RBIs, and six extra-base hits.

Game One: 9-3 W

Great Bay took the lead in the top of the first inning with designated hitter Brayden Nobles driving in Manny Sanchez with an RBI single into right field. Central Maine responded with a run in the bottom half. Ty Bernier walked and stole second to get into scoring position. T.J. Kramarz then brought him around with a grounder up the middle.

Things seesawed back and forth some more in the second. Mikey Giovanditto scored on a Pavel Miller line drive, only for Dawson Babineau to answer with a sac-fly that brought home Luc Oishi. CMCC took the lead for good with two runs in the third. Brendan Mahaney launched a two-RBI double into center field with Caleb Oickle and Kramarz scoring in the process.

Starting pitcher Camden Miller was replaced after allowing seven hits in three innings with Brady Vincent making a relief appearance. The southpaw kept the Herons in check for two innings before 6'7" freshman Gwilym Cook came on to see things out.

The Mustangs gave them some additional run support to boot, scoring five times in the fifth off Great Bay's reliever Hayden Hundley. Garren Post and Oishi hit RBI singles while Lee Robertson legged out a triple on a long fly ball into right-center that drove in two runs. He crossed the plate for the fifth run of the inning on a Babineau groundout.

Game Two: 11-1 W

The Herons also drew first blood in the second game of the afternoon, this time taking a 1-0 lead in the second. Rhett Dyer singled into left scoring Giovanditto from second. That would prove to be the only run given up by starting pitcher Mathew Charrette. The freshman from Freedom, NH pitched a gem of a game in his first career start, striking out five while giving up seven hits in six innings of work.

CMCC jumped in front in the bottom of the third, finally getting to starter Ethan Gomez. With two men on, Babineau lined a single to right that scored Bradley Sirois. Bernier saw him and raised him with a line drive into right field of his own that brought two runs around with Babineau sliding across the plate safely.

The Mustangs manufactured another run in the bottom of the fifth. Kramarz's sacrifice fly to right brought home Bernier from third base. However, the real damage was done in the sixth. Garren Post led off by reaching first on catcher's interference. Bailey Parcel pinch-ran for him and swiped second before coming around on Vincent's double. Matthew MacLeod then smacked a two-run home run to make it 7-1.

Sirois singled and got into scoring position on a wild pitch, scoring on a hard-hit grounder from Miller that produced an error. A Babineau single and Bernier walk loaded the bases with Miller scoring on another wild pitch. Oickle ended things with a triple into right that scored two more and brought the game to an end one inning early thanks to the ten-run rule.

It was the third straight sweep of conference play to start the fall ball season for the Mustangs. CMCC now gets set for its first series on the road against archrival SMCC on Wednesday.