AUBURN — Edward Little scored the game’s only run in the bottom of the seventh for a 1-0 walk-off win over Mt. Blue in a Class A North baseball game at Central Maine Community College on Thursday.
Red Eddies (4-5) starting pitcher Campbell Cassidy held the Cougars (5-4) hitless after Hayden Dippner led off the game with a single. Cassidy walked one and struck out eight across seven innings.
Nolan Leso was also working on a shutout, with six strikeouts and no walks, until the seventh. Drew Smith led off the bottom of the seventh with a triple, then Kade Masselli drove him home with a one-out squeeze bunt.
Masselli finished with two hits.
DIRIGO 7, BOOTHBAY/WISCASSET 6: The Cougars (4-1) rallied from a 6-1 deficit with two runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to beat Boothbay/Wiscasset (0-6) in Boothbay Harbor.
Freshman Trevor Crosby led Dirigo with four hits and two RBI. Dakota Tompkins, Dylen Packard, Travis Wright and Ethan Olsen also drove in runs.
Tompkins and Charlie Houghton split the pitching duties for the Cougars, who scored in the top of the first, then fell behind as Boothbay/Wiscasset got three in the bottom half, one in the second and two in the third.
SOFTBALL
EDWARD LITTLE 12, MT. BLUE 2: Tiana Avila tallied three extra-base hits, and Alexis Kelsea’s third hit drove in the game-ending run in the bottom of the sixth as the Red Eddies (4-5) rolled past the Cougars (1-8) in Auburn.
Avila hit two doubles and a home run while driving in three runs. Kelsea also collected three RBI, including her run-scoring single that plated Erin Cowie to invoke the 10-run rule.
Leah Thibodeau added two hits as part of Edward Little’s 13-hit attack. Kassidy Lobb pitched all six innings in the circle to earn the win, scattering nine hits.
Maddie Cote had three hits for Mt. Blue, which scored in the fifth and sixth. Abby Farrington chipped in with a pair of hits.
BOYS LACROSSE
LEWISTON 15, GARDINER 4: Kyle Graves factored in nine of the Blue Devils’ (5-4) goals as they routed the Tigers (4-5) in Gardiner.
Graves scored five goals and assisted on four others. Cody Dionne completed a hat trick and added an assist, Eli Bigelow notched two goals and an assist, and Aiden St. George dished out two assists to go along with a goal of his own. Liam Hutchinson, Jackson Bement, Colton Daniels and Daven Langelier all pitched in with a goal, and Bement also provided an assist.
Brock Rancourt made nine saves for Lewiston, while Logan Crowley stopped five shots for Gardiner.
Nathanael Luiz scored two goals for the Tigers, and Cole Brann and Logan Cote each scored one.
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