River Hawks Suffer 4-3 Walk-off to Hartford
ORONO, Maine – The UMass Lowell baseball team suffered a 4-3 walk-off loss against the top seed Hartford in game seven of the America East Championship earlier this afternoon.
The Hawks’ (25-29) Drew Martino sent the game-winning single down the left field line to send Hartford into tomorrow’s championship game.
Following the elimination game between Stony Brook and Maine, the River Hawks (25-28) will play the winner for a chance to go against the Hawks tomorrow, as well.
Ben Prada (Laurel, Md.) stole third in the third inning and crossed the plate on a passed ball for the contest’s first run. Hartford responded with an RBI single in its half of the third.
The score remained even until the sixth, Cam Climo (Billerica, Mass.) sent a slow dribbler to second and the throw went high allowing Russ Olive (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Steve Passatempo (Medford, Mass.) to score, Right before the miscue, Colby Maiola (North Reading, Mass.) got thrown out at the plate on Passatempo’s single to left.
Drew DeMartino connected on a two-run shot in the seventh to send the game into its second deadlock, 3-3.
Nick Rand (Hyde Park, N.Y.) went seven innings and struck out five and was able to strand four runners on the bases.
- PITCHING
- W: Nicholas Dombkowski (7-5)
- L: Tomczyk (1-1)
UMass Lowell
HARTFORD
- BATTING:
- 2B: Ashton Bardzell 1; Chris Sullivan 1; Jackson Olson 1
- HR: Drew DeMartino 1
- BASERUNNING:
- CS: Jackson Olson 1
- HBP: Drew Holtgrieve 1
- FIELDING:
- E: Jackson Olson 1; Drew DeMartino 2
# 2 UMASS LOWELL (25-28) -VS- # 1 HARTFORD (25-29)
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 3 |
- W:
- Nicholas Dombkowski (7-5)
- L:
- Tomczyk (1-1)
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