Long Season Comes To An End For Baseball With Four Straight Losses To Maine

It has definitely been a very trying season for the Baseball team. At just 9-39 the team has recorded their second straight sub-ten win season, and their 18.7 win-percentage is the worst since 1975. Despite having solid young talent, the pitching and offense could just get everything together at the same time and have ended the season on a 14 game losing streak. This season the team was outscored a combined 493 (10.2 runs per game) to 200 (4.1 runs per game).

The season ended with a complete sweep by Maine, a series in which the team played close in, but not good enough to get wins.

Day One- Game 1: Maine 13, UMBC 2

The season was at the point where all you have to do it see what you have for next year, and that is what Coach John Jancuska did as he used seven different pitchers for one inning each in the first game of the day one double-header. Three of the pitchers combined for 13 runs allowed but Sean Swetnam, Josh Dick, J.R. Seader, and Steve Miller accounted for just four hits and no runs with three strikeouts.

Max Himmelstein and Michael Pesci were the only retrievers to score runs as Marty Zawacki and Casey Mediary picked up RBIs.

Day One- Game 2: Maine 7, UMBC 3

Once again pitchers only had one inning of work, through Travis Pearson pitched two innings. Steve Miller came out unharmed, giving up no hits and striking out two batters. After falling behind by seven runs UMBC scored three runs. Casey Mediary went 3-for-3 with two runs while Rich Conlon went 3-for-4 with one run.

Day Two- Game 1: Maine 5, UMBC 3

I what would be his last game at UMBC, Ed Back started on the mound and lasted seven innings and strike out four batters, however, off of 10 hits the Black Bears scored four runs, which would be enough to drop him to a 4-9 record on the season. Max Himmelstein led the team going 3-for-4 with one run. Rick Phillips and Curtis Schickner scored the other two runs.

Day Two- Game 2: Maine 6, UMBC 2

Kevin Clark pitched his last collegiate game and went a complete eight innings while striking out three. It has been a very rough year for the team, but in particular Clark, who could not catch a break again and fell to 0-8 on the season. He gave up just six runs off five hits but the offense only produced two runs, which came from Brian Klukowicz and Casey Medairy, who hit a home run.