WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass -- After getting rained out on Saturday, the Buccaneers and MCLA Trailblazers met at Williams College on Monday to complete their conference series with a doubleheader. Down one game to none in the series after losing on Friday night at home, the Bucs came out with avengence in the doubleheader taking the first game, 7-3, and in the second game, Brett Velzis's bat did the talking as he hit two home runs, a grand slam and a thre-run home runs, to lead the Bucs past MCLA in game two, 11-7, to take the series two games to one.

Game One

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 7, Trailblazers 3

Records: Maritime 14-12 (5-3)

               MCLA 5-15 (2-6)

On The Mound

Maritime: Hunter Dean (W, 5-1): 7 IP | 4 H | 3 R | 2 ER | 1 BB | 6 K

MCLA: Nate Morse (L, 3-4): 4.2 IP | 6 H | 4 R | 3 ER | 2 BB | 3 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Evan Vieira, Aaron Cole, Brett Velzis, and Michael Estrada all had two hits in the game. Michael Logiudice, Jake Houston, and aidan Weir all had one.
• Logiudice and Houston drove in two runs, and Vieira, Velzis, and Estrada drove in one.
• Velzis and Estrada scored twice, and Cole, Logiudice, and Weir scored once.
• Cole recorded a triple in the win. Estrada, Houston, and Weir all had a double.
• Estrada recorded the only stolen base of the game for the Bucs.

MCLA

• Roshan Warriar, Josh Bologh, Joe Sardo, and Chris Vargas were the only Trailblazers with a hit.
• Sardo drove in two runs, and Vargas knocked in one.
• Joshua Bissaillon, Bologh, and Michael Wormuth scored the team's three runs in the loss.
• Bologh had a double, the only MCLA extra-base hit.
• Warriar stole a bag for the hosts.

How It Happened

The Bucs scored in the top of the second inning after a scoreless first. Logiudice reached on an error that allowed Velzis to score and give the Bucs an early 1-0 lead.

In the top of the fourth, the Bucs laid it on, scoring three runs. Estrada doubled in Velzis, Logiudice singled in Estrada, and Houston doubled in Logiudice to give the Buccaneers a 4-0 lead. In the bottom of the fourth, the Trailblazers scored twice to cut the Maritime lead to two runs, 4-2.

After a scoreless fifth, the Bucs scored two more in the top of the sixth. The first run scored on a Houston sacrifice fly and the second on a Vieira single that plated Weir. Maritime led 6-2. In the bottom of the frame, MCLA got a run back on a Sardo ground out, and the lead for Maritime was three, 6-3. 

In the top of the seventh, Velzis added an insurance run with an RBI single to bring in Cole, who had tripled in his at bat. With a 7-3 lead, Dean sat the Trailblazers down in order in the bottom of the seventh to tie the series at a game apiece heading to the second game of the doubleheader.

Game Two

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 11, Trailblazers 7

Records: Maritime 15-12 (6-3)

                  MCLA 5-16 (2-7)

On the Mound

Maritime: Sam Huffman (W, 5-1): 6 IP | 11 H | 7 R | 6 ER | 1 BB | 5 K

MCLA: Joshua Bissaillon (L, 0-4): 3.2 IP | 8 H | 7 R | 7 ER | 1 BB | 2 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Evan Vieira, Brett Velzis, Michael Logiudice, and Bill Gorry all had two hits in the win. Aaron Cole and AJ Pietrafesa had one. 
• Velzis drove in seven runs on the day thanks to a grand slam and a three-run home run. Pietrafesa drove in two, and Aidan Weir knocked in one.
• Vieira, Cole, Velzis, and Logiudice all scored twice. Pietrafesa, Gorry, and Weir came in to score once.
• Velzis had the two home runs, and Logiudice recorded a double.

MCLA

• Benjamin Jacob, Matthew Castillo, Joshua Bissaillon, and Matt Damon all had two hits. Four MCLA hitters had one.
• Bissaillon and Chris Vargas drove in two runs. Roshan Warriar, Castillo, and Dariel Rodriguez drove in one.
• Jacob and Castillo scored twice. Wairriar, Bissaillon, and Joe Sardo scored once.
• Castillo and Damon both doubled in the loss.
• Jacob had the only stolen base in the game.

How It Happened

The Trailblazers took a two-run lead in game two, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first on a Bissaillon single that scored Castillo and Warriar.

The MCLA lead lasted until the top of the third when the Bucs scored four times to take a 4-2 lead. Pietrafesa hit a sacrifice fly to center field that scored Weir, and then Velzis hit a three-run home run to put the Buccaneers up by two. The Bucs lead didn't last long as MCLA plated four runs of their own in the bottom of the inning to take a 6-4 lead. Castillo singled a run in, Vargas knocked in two, and Rodriguez brought in one more to put the hosts back up through three.

In the top of the fourth, the lead flip-flopped once again, with Maritime scoring five runs. Pietrafesa walked with the bases loaded, and Velzis came up and hit his second home run of the day, a grand slam, his third of the season and fourth of his career, to put the Bucs up 9-6.

Weir added a run for Maritime in the fifth, grounding out to second base and bringing in Logiudice to make the score 10-6. 

In the bottom of the sixth, Warriar reached on an error that allowed a run to score and cut the deficit to three runs, 10-7.

Maritime struck again in the top of the seventh when Logiudice scored one a wild pitch to extend the lead back to four runs, 11-7. Nick Iannone came in in relief of Huffman in the bottom of the seventh and struck out the side to preserve the four-run lead and sweep the conference doubleheader over MCLA.

What's Next

The Buccaneers are back home on Tuesday for a conference game against Bridgewater State at 4pm.