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)

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)

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Scoring Summary

Scoring Summary

Logo	Team	Inning	Play Description	UML	HAR
	UML	3rd	Barry advanced to second; Prada scored on a passed ball, unearned.	1	0
	HARTFORD	3rd	THRASHER singled to right field, RBI (2-2 BFBS); HOLTGRIEVE scored.	1	1
	UML	6th	Climo singled, 2 RBI (0-1 F); Passatempo advanced to third, scored on a throwing error by ss, unearned; Olive scored, unearned.	3	1
	HARTFORD	7th	DeMARTINO homered to right field, 2 RBI (0-1 K); OLSON scored.	3	3
	HARTFORD	9th	DeMARTINO singled, RBI (1-2 FSB); HOLTGRIEVE advanced to second; OLSON advanced to third; WARD scored.	3	4
	TOTALS			3	4

Team Individual Statistics

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Position	Player	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB
CF	Maiola	4	0	0	0	1	2	0
SS	Tumosa	5	0	0	0	0	3	2
LF	Olive	5	1	1	0	0	0	2
1B	Passatempo	4	1	3	0	0	0	0
DH	Climo	4	0	1	2	0	1	0
RF	Young, M	4	0	2	0	0	0	1
3B	Castellanos	4	0	0	0	0	1	4
2B	Prada	3	1	2	0	1	0	0
C	Barry	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
P	Rand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
P	Metelski	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
P	Tomczyk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	35	3	10	2	2	7	9

BATTING

2B:

Young, M (1)

SH:

Barry (2)

BASERUNNING

SB:

Prada (1)

HARTFORD 4

Position	Player	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB
LF	Nick Campana	4	0	1	0	0	0	0
3B	Zachary Ardito	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
RF	Ashton Bardzell	4	0	1	0	0	2	0
DH	Chris Sullivan	4	0	1	0	0	1	0
1B	TJ Ward	4	1	1	0	0	2	2
SS	Jackson Olson	4	1	3	0	0	0	1
C	Drew Holtgrieve	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
2B	Drew DeMartino	4	1	2	3	0	0	0
CF	John Thrasher	3	0	1	1	0	0	0
P	Nicholas Dombkowski	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
P	Jake Regula	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
P	Drew Farkas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	33	4	12	4	1	5	4

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)

Team Individual Pitching Statistics

UMass Lowell

Player	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	WP	BK	HBP	IBB	AB	BF	FO	GO	NP
Rand	7.0	9	3	3	0	5	0	0	0	0	28	28	5	9	99
Metelski	0.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	8
Tomczyk (L, 1-1)	1.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	6	1	1	29
TOTALS		12	4	4	1	5	0	0	1	0	33	35	6	10	136

HARTFORD

Player	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	WP	BK	HBP	IBB	AB	BF	FO	GO	NP
Nicholas Dombkowski (W, 7-5)	8.0	9	3	0	1	7	0	0	0	0	32	34	7	8	115
Jake Regula	0.2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	2	14
Drew Farkas	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	3
TOTALS		10	3	0	2	7	0	0	0	0	35	39	8	10	132

Win: Nicholas Dombkowski (7-5)
Loss: Tomczyk (1-1)
HBP: Tomczyk
PB: Drew Holtgrieve