Waterville, ME – The Central Maine baseball team fell in exhibition action against NCAA DIII Thomas College on Sunday afternoon. The Mustangs and Terriers played a doubleheader of two nine-inning games in Waterville, with the hosts coming away with a pair of wins, 9-2 and 10-9. 
 
Fischer Cormier led the Mustangs with a 4-for-6 effort at the plate between the two games, recording three RBIs and scoring two runs. Seven different Central Maine pitchers got at least one inning on the mound over the course of the 18 innings. 
 
Game One, 2-9 L 
 
The first game stayed scoreless through the first three innings with Kyle Delano pitching for CMCC and Andrew Pruell on the mound for Thomas. 
 
The Terriers broke things open in the top of the fourth, taking a 6-0 lead. Sam Keblinsky led off the inning with a triple and came home on a groundout by Cam Hayes. Matt Seymour hit an RBI double to left field, and after a pair of walks loaded the bases, Jason Bartlett cleared them with a low line drive that skipped into right. Tony Meza brought him in to hang a crooked number on the scoreboard. 
 
The Mustangs pulled one back in the top of the fifth with Fischer Cormier plating Shane Jewett on a triple to right field. However, Thomas College would score a pair of runs in the seventh and add one more in the eighth to take a 9-1 lead. 
 
CMCC loaded the bases in the top of the ninth, and Steven White scored when Brandon Gour was hit by a pitch. But Gage Eggleston came on to strike out Garren Post and end the game. 
 
Game Two, 9-10 L
 
Central Maine wasted no time jumping out to a lead in game two. Jake Calver and Brady Vincent hit back-to-back RBI doubles in the top of the first to make it 2-0. 
 
Levi Tibbetts pitched two scoreless innings to start the game for CMCC, but the Mustangs bats stayed quiet as well. Thomas evened things up in the bottom of the third against relief pitcher Jeff Meisner. Javier Diaz walked and stole second to get into scoring position. Nick Florek drove him in with an RBI single to center field, and Andrew Reynolds tied the score with a base hit into left. 
 
Reynold followed that up with a hard grounder into left field the next inning as well, this time scoring two more for a 4-2 Terriers lead. 
 
Both teams made line-up adjustments as the exhibition game went along. CMCC broke it open in the top of the sixth, scoring five runs to make it 7-4. Hayden Durrell, Brendan Mahaney, Fischer Cormier, and Brandon Gour produced the RBIs in an inning where the team brought ten batters to the plate. 
 
But the Terriers had a response in the bottom half of the inning, scoring four runs off Logan Carpenter. The hosts added one more in the bottom of the seventh to make it 9-7. 
 
The seesaw battle continued in the top of the eighth when the Mustangs tied things up at 9-9. Mahaney doubled and scored on a passed ball. Tibbetts then whacked a double into center that scored Cormier.  
 
An error on an infield grounder hit by Noah Campanelli allowed the speedy Diaz, who stole four bases in the doubleheader, to score in the bottom of the eighth. And Thomas relief pitcher Ankit Shah struck out three of four batters faced in the bottom of the ninth to secure the 10-9 win and the sweep. 

CMCC next travels to NHTI on Wednesday to face the Lynx. After that the team has one more series left in its fall ball schedule. The Mustangs host Quincy College in Auburn on Saturday, October 12th. Game one gets underway at noon.