BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. – The Clark University baseball team (4-4) traveled to Mass. Maritime (5-3) for a Friday afternoon contest and fell 9-5 from Hendy Field.

How It Happened

• Sophomore Carter Doran opened the game with a walk and a stolen base before being left on base and senior Max Moss pitched a scoreless first inning.
• The Cougars took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when graduate student Andrea Casabianca drove in first-year Brayden Hollinrake in the top of the second.
• Mass. Maritime tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the third with a homer to left and after a scoreless fourth and fifth inning, Clark plated four runs in the top of the sixth.
• Graduate student Steven Mooney singled to center, which plated first-year Nicolo Mainardi and senior Anthony Keefe to go up 3-1.
• Doran then belted a two-run homer to left field to extend the lead to 5-1 after Mooney's RBI single.
• Mass. Maritime scored a run in the bottom of the sixth to make It 5-2 and scored two in the bottom of the seventh to pull within one at 5-4.
• The Buccaneers then took the lead in the bottom of the eighth after scoring five runs and in the top of the ninth, Clark got the bases loaded as sophomore Ryan Bonja, senior Ryan Caulfield, and junior Billy Sullivan, but Mass. Maritime got out of the jam.  

Inside the Stats

• Doran went 2-4 with a two-run homer and stole a base.
• Hollinrake was 3-5 with a run scored.
• Mooney drove in a pair of runs and Casabianca recorded an RBI.
• Moss pitched 7.0 innings and struck out eight batters.

What's Next

The Cougars will return to play tomorrow with game against Anna Maria beginning at 5:30 p.m.