Auburn, ME – CMCC Baseball put up 31 total runs in just eight combined innings to sweep Great Bay Community College over the weekend. The Mustangs had 13 different players register at least one hit and four players record four RBIs each. The team moves to 4-0 in Yankee Small College Conference play.

Game One, 15-2 W

Central Maine came roaring out of the gates in the first inning of game one, sending 12 batters to the plate and taking an 8-0 lead. Garren Post hit a two-RBI shot into right field to score Brandon Gour and Ryan Stone. Leo Woods, making his home debut for the Mustangs, lined a three-run shot into left to plate Post, Cody Cleaveland, and Cameron Dostie. Lee Robertson drove in one runs as well before both he and Gour scored on passed balls by pitcher Pavel Miller.

Dostie added another RBI in the second before both teams went down quickly in the third. The Herons did get a couple of runs on the board in the top of the fourth to break up the shutout by starting pitcher Logan Carpenter. Miller and Jefferson Raycraft had back-to-back RBI singles through the gap to cut the deficit to 9-2.

However, that appeared to reawaken the CMCC bats. The Mustangs responded by scoring six times in the bottom half of the inning. Woods and Post both added their fourth RBI of the afternoon on either side of a two-RBI double by Gour.

When the dust settled, Central Maine had a 15-2 lead and Great Bay needed to score at least four runs to extend the game past the fifth inning. Carpenter retired the Herons in order finish things off and pick up his second victory of the campaign.

Game Two, 16-5 W

The Mustangs had a repeat performance in game two to quickly finish off the sweep, once again scoring double-digit runs and ending the game after five innings. Head coach Ryan Palmer made plenty of changes to the lineup to get as many players into the action as possible.

Jake Calver whacked a hit into center field as the third batter up to plate both Kyle Delano and Cleaveland. Fellow Australian and catcher Zac Gorman brought him home on an error by the shortstop. Owen Scott came on as a courtesy runner and Teddy McFarland sent him around to score with a line drive to right for a 5-0 lead.

Great Bay put together three straight singles off pitcher Jeff Meisner in the top of the second, but had to settle with just one run scoring on a passed ball. Steven White canceled that out in the next half inning with Kyle Delano scoring as well.

The offense continued in the third. Shane Jewett drilled a line drive to score McFarland. Cleaveland continued his fine day, taking advantage of playing both games by hitting a two-RBI double into left field. Calver brought him around to score in the next at bat with a grounder through the gap between third and short.

Raycraft got a run on the board with a sacrifice fly to cut the Herons' deficit to 11-2. However, the steamroller that was the Central Maine batting order added another five of their own. McFarland, Jewett, White, and Cleaveland created the RBIs, while Scott, Woods, and Delano joined McFarland and White in crossing home plate.

Great Bay loaded the bases in the top of the fifth, briefly giving them some hope of scoring the five runs necessary to keep the game going. Zach Bradford scored on a ground out by Miller. First baseman Brady Vincent then did a wonderful job to make a diving stop on a hard-hit ball by Miles Murray, but his flip to first was behind the covering Meisner, allowing two runs to score on the error. However, the next two batters both grounded out to second to end the game.

Meisner had another strong outing for the Mustangs to pick up the win on the mound. The junior from Natick, MA collected his fourth win, tied for the team lead with Delano, and made it a perfect two-for-two this season throwing complete games when given the ball to start the contest.

Central Maine next prepares to take on in-state rivals SMCC and UMaine-Augusta next week.