LISBON FALLS — Saturday’s baseball matchup between Winthrop and Lisbon figured to be a pitchers’ duel, featuring two of the Mountain Valley Conference’s top hurlers.

Winthrop had other ideas. The Ramblers roughed up Lisbon ace Kyle Bourget for 13 hits, providing more than enough support for lefty Ben Allen in a 10-1 victory.

Allen, a senior, contributed three hits and drove in four runs. On the mound, he battled through early control issues and shut down the Greyhounds (10-3) after a rocky first inning.

“This is our biggest win of the season, by far,” Allen said. “That’s a very good team over there.”

The Ramblers (10-2) got contributions from virtually their entire lineup, particularly the bottom three hitters – Bennett Brooks, Jacob Hickey and Adam Hachey – who went 7 for 12 with three RBI and six runs.

“Adam and I just talked to each other and said let’s get going here,” said Hickey, who was 3 for 4 with a double, two RBI and three runs scored. “We saw that (Bourget) was going with fastball mainly (on) his first pitch, so we wanted to really drive that to the outfield for hits.”

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“They were hitting the ball. They were right on the dot,” Winthrop Coach Marc Fortin said. “They’re all sophomores. It’s very important (having the bottom of the order produce). That’s the difference between a team that wins and a championship-caliber team. That’s where we think we are right now. We’re batting pretty solid one through nine.”

Bourget set down six of the first seven Winthrop batters before running into trouble in the third. Hickey led off with a line drive to center that was misjudged on a windy morning, and Hickey ended up with a double. Hachey (2 for 4) moved him to third with a single and Allen drove him in with a sacrifice fly that made it 1-1.

Brooks (2 for 4, two runs), Hickey and Hachey hit consecutive one-out singles to put the Ramblers ahead in the fourth. Allen added an RBI single to give Winthrop a 3-1 lead.

The Ramblers broke it open with six runs in the fifth.

“Kyle is probably the best pitcher in this conference, obviously a very good fastball and a very good curveball,” Allen said. “The guys had some great at-bats today. We were very disciplined.”

BONNY EAGLE 3, SOUTH PORTLAND 1: Dana McKay’s two-run single capped a seventh-inning rally as the Scots (9-4) beat the Red Riots (10-2) in South Portland.

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Matt Beecher scored on Anthony Degifico’s sacrifice fly to give South Portland a 1-0 lead in the fourth. But Matthew Bridges scored on an error in the seventh before McKay singled home Kyle Labrecque and Lane Poirier.

SANFORD 8, BIDDEFORD 4: Frankie Veino struck out seven for the Spartans (2-10) in a victory over visiting Biddeford (3-9) at Goodall Park.

Veino gave up six hits, two walks and one earned run.

The Spartans took the lead in the bottom of the fourth when Xavier Chase tripled with the bases loaded, highlighting a seven-run outburst.

Casey Twomey finished with three hits for Biddeford, including an inside-the-park two-run homer in the fourth.

THORNTON ACADEMY 9, GORHAM 4: Tourner Moseley hit an RBI double during a three-run rally in the fifth inning as the Trojans (10-3) overtook the Rams (5-7) in Gorham.

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Brogan Searle-Belanger, Ben Lambert and Brandon Hall scored in the fifth to give Thornton a 6-4 lead.

Evan Balzano’s two-run triple helped Thornton grab a 3-0 lead in the top of the first.

Gorham tied it in the third with the help of Andrew Schmidt’s RBI double and Derek Brown’s run-scoring single, then took the lead in the fourth.

WINDHAM 5, WESTBROOK 1: Dylan Koza hit a two-run triple in the fifth inning to help the Eagles (5-7) beat the Blue Blazes (4-8) at Westbrook.

Winning pitcher Tanner Laberge struck out five, walked one and gave up five hits.

Corey Walker drove in Westbrook’s run with a first-inning double.

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MARSHWOOD 21, NOBLE 11: Zach Quintal drove in six runs with two singles and a triple as the Hawks (9-3) outslugged the Knights (0-11) at South Berwick.

Marshwood plated 10 runs in the first inning. Noah McDaniel got two of his four RBI in the first inning. Luke Stankovich, Zach Doyon and C.J. Davis all chipped in with two RBI.

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RICHMOND 18, OLD ORCHARD BEACH 3: Sydney Tilton struck out 10 and hit a pair of home runs to lead the Bobcats (12-0) to a win at Old Orchard Beach (0-10).

Meranda Martin, Kelsie Obi and Cassidy Harriman also homered for Richmond.


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