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Box Score 2 MALDEN, Mass. – The Emerson Baseball Team stepped up to give the 18th-ranked St. Joseph's of Maine Monks a run for their money Saturday afternoon as they fell in close 5-2 and 5-3 games at Maplewood Park in Malden. Ben Quick and Conor McDonough took the losses on the day to fall to 0-5 and 0-1 respectively on the season as the Lions fall to 5-1 7overall and 0-4 in GNAC action.
Game one saw Ben Quick take the ball for EC who the Monks took to quickly in the first to add two runs to open the doubleheader. Another two runs hit the board for SJM in the second as well off three hits before the Lions roared back in the third with some two-out lighting giving Emerson two runs as Adam Speakman pulled a walk and came around on a Sullivan single and error before Peter Maltzan laced one through the right side to make it 4-2.
The pitchers duel was on after that with SJM's Chad Rafferty going the distance in the game with seven innings of action where the Lions Andy Brightman held SJM scoreless for four innings before they added another in the seventh off Zak Levine to finish it 5-2.
Game two saw the Lions unable to find a clutch hit in the outing as they left seven on base through the game that Conor McDonough started. SJM scored first again in the first inning, but the Lions answered in the second with rookie Kyle Muhlfriedel putting a single through the left side and coming around to score on a James Sullivan fielder's choice RBI to make it 1-1.
The Lions just couldn't contain the Monks though as SJM came back in the fourth rattling off four hits for two runs to make it 3-1. The Lions answered yet again in the fifth though as Adam Speakman lead-off with a walk before Peter Maltzan swung the hot stick again for another RBI single to left. A Geoff Lopes single forced an error by the SJM center fielder to bring home Maltzan and keep it 3-3.
That was all the offense the Lions could muster though as it headed tied all the way into the final inning as the Monks opened up with a single before two more hits and an error cost the Lions two more runs that they couldn't recover from as they finished out with a 5-3 loss.
Emerson Baseball hits the field again this Tuesday as they travel to Gordon for a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m.
