Monday final score
6
UMES UMES 1-12, 0-3 NEC
13
Winner Central Conn. St. CCSU 4-2, 3-0 NEC
UMES UMES
1-12, 0-3 NEC
6
Final
13
Central Conn. St. CCSU
4-2, 3-0 NEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UMES UMES 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 10 1
Central Conn. St. CCSU 0 4 0 1 0 2 0 6 X 13 13 3

W: Jacob Hines (1-0) L: Williams, Cade (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Hawks homer twice, fall to Blue Devils 6-13 in series finale

SUMMARY

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – The Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks lost game three of the series to the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils 13-6 at CCSU Baseball Field.

THE SCORE

Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks (1-12, 0-3) - 6

Central Connecticut State Blue Devils (4-2, 3-0) - 13

(CCSU Sweeps Series 3-0)

HOW IT HAPPENED

For the third consecutive game, the Hawks scored in the first inning to take the lead. Jonathan Gonzalez Perez drove in Darrius Brown on a sacrifice fly to open the scoring. 

Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the second frame, Central Connecticut State responded with a four-run inning highlighted by a two-run triple and two-run double. Diego Aponte then hit an RBI single in the third to decrease the deficit for the Hawks, 4-2.

The Blue Devils expanded their lead to 7-2 by outsourcing the Hawks 3-0 from the fourth until the sixth inning. Maryland Eastern Shore answered in the top of the eighth with an RBI double from Christian Azcona who would later go on to score that same inning on a throwing error. 

Leading 7-4, CCSU ballooned their lead to nine with a six-run eighth inning. Brown and Gonzalez Perez each homered over the left field fence in the ninth inning to bring the final score to 13-6. 

THE NUMBERS

The Hawks scored six runs on 10 hits and one error while the Blue Devils amassed 13 runs on 13 hits and three errors

Brown finished 2-for-5 with a solo home run and two runs scored. This marks Brown's first home run of his UMES baseball career

Gonzalez Perez recorded his second three-hit game of the season, finishing 3-for-4 at the plate with two RBI and a home run. Gonzalez Perez paces the Hawks and ranks second in the NEC with four home runs on the season

Cade Williams recorded a season-high five innings pitched in his start. All three Hawk starting pitchers completed a start of five or more innings in this series.

UP NEXT

The Hawks resume conference play at home against Stonehill at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 13, to kick off a three-game weekend series. Live stats will be available on umeshawksports.com and the game stream will be available on YouTube.

FOLLOW ALONG

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