In a battle for a share of first place in the Eastern Athletic Conference (EAC), Coyle and Cassidy (11-5 overall, 6-1 EAC) scored six runs in the first two innings, and held off Martha’s Vineyard (10-6, 4-2 EAC) for a 6-5 win, Thursday in Taunton.
The Vineyarders grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Jonas Lukowitz stroked a leadoff single, Elias Fhagen-Smith walked, Aidan Aliberti laid down a sacrifice bunt, and Chris Mayhew knocked in Lukowitz with a line-drive sac fly. Fhagen-Smith then crossed the plate on a wild pitch.
Jonas tripled in the fourth inning, scoring Tabor Caron, and came home on another Warriors wild pitch, cutting Coyle’s lead to 6-4.
Chris Mayhew scored the final Vineyard run with a sac fly in the sixth.
MV had baserunners throughout the game, drawing 11 walks, but could not get the tying run in.
Vineyard reliever Jack Sierputoski pitched four scoreless, no-hit innings, with two K’s and two walks, to cool off the Warrior bats and keep his team in the game.
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