Auburndale, Fla. – The 2014 Clark University baseball team opened the season with a pair of 8-3 losses to regional power Saint Joseph's (Maine) on Saturday afternoon at Lake Myrtle Field.

The Monks, who won 31 games a season ago and advanced to the NCAA Regionals last season, improve to 3-0 on the year.

In the opener Max McComb, went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and walk while Alec Lorenc was 2-for-4 with four RBI for Saint Joseph's.

The Cougars could only muster five hits on the afternoon – two of which came on doubles by freshman Adam Chochrek (Foxboro, Mass.).

After falling behind 2-0, Clark pushed a run across the plate when Chockrek doubled to left and he came around to score on a single by Daniel Lima (Manchester, Conn.).

Two innings later the Cougars found themselves down, 6-1, but got two runs highlighted by a Kevin Mawe (Dedham, Mass.) RBI ground out.

The Monks got two more runs in the sixth on Nick Lops' two-run single.

Derek Dubois (Haverhill, Mass.) went the first five innings for the Scarlet and White, scattering seven hits and yielding six runs.

In the nightcap, the Monks took advantage of five Clark errors en route to the doubleheader sweep. SJC scored five runs in the first off of starter Austin Knief (Scarsdale, N.Y.) – aided by two of those errors and never looked back.

Down 6-0, the Cougars pushed a pair of runs across the plate on a two-run triple by Andrew Doolittle (Hebron, Conn.), scoring James Conway (Newburyport, Mass.) and David Eschen (New York, N.Y.). They tacked on another on a passed ball in the sixth, but that would be all.

Lima had a pair of hits and a stolen base for Clark, while both Knief and Jack Kenney (Saco, Maine) tossed three innings apiece.

The Cougars will be back in action on Sunday when they face Saint Vincent's College at 10:30 a.m.