PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The UMPI Owls’ baseball team is now 2-20 on the season after losing single games to different opponents Sunday.
The Owls were limited to one hit in a 12-0 loss to Fisher College to begin the day. In the second game, despite a well-pitched game by senior Matt Curry, UMPI fell to Pine Manor College, 3-2. Both games were played in Lynn, Massachusetts.
In the opener, Ryan Sanderson’s double was the lone hit as the Owls were unable to muster an attack against the pitching efforts of Raymundo Gomez, Edgar Carrasco and Matthew Trotta. The trio combined for nine strikeouts.
Fisher scored six times in the first inning, with UMPI committing a pair of errors that contributed to some of the runs.
Saul Nunez was the Owls’ starting pitcher and took the loss.
Curry was brilliant on the mound for UMPI in game two, allowing only two earned runs over his eight innings of work. He scattered nine hits and struck out nine batters and walked only two. The game was tied 2-2 in the bottom of the eighth when Curry surrendered an RBI double to Eduary Baez to break the deadlock.
Curry helped his own cause at the plate as he tripled in a run in the third inning and doubled in another in the fifth. Matt Cauchon also had two hits and Colby Spencer added another for the Owls.
The Owls will take on New Rochelle College in New York on Saturday, April 14. The doubleheader begins at 11:30 a.m.
