The last thing the Freeport High School baseball team wanted to do in Friday’s Western Maine Conference encounter with defending Class B state champion Falmouth was to give the Yachtsmen extra outs and free bases.
Falmouth improved to 2-0, while the Falcons fell to 1-3 and host York today at 4 p.m.
“That inning was terrible, and I just felt that we didn’t have the mental focus and concentration,” said Freeport coach Hank Ogilby. “We have played one good game, one decent game and two poor games, so for us we need to bring it all together and play seven innings. We have the potential, but we haven’t put it together yet.”
Freeport starting pitcher Pete LaMagna threw 36 firstinning pitches and made two errors. Andrew Emple had a bloop single for an RBI, and Luke Velas’ dribbler along the third-base line plated another run. Connor MacDowell also picked up an RBI on a basesloaded walk.
LaMagna recovered, retiring seven straight hitters. And, Freeport battled back, getting a run in the first when Falmouth committed an error, allowing Niko DeFazio to score.
In the third, freshman Jack Davenport launched a tworun home run to right-center field off of Falmouth starting pitcher Connor Murphy to get the Falcons to within 4-3.
“Pete LaMagna kept us in the game and Jack Davenport brought us back with that two-run dinger, but you spot a team like that a big lead, you’re in trouble,” said Ogilby, who watched Falmouth figure out LaMagna in the fourth, scoring five runs on six hits. “The other big innings they had, they hit the ball well, but again, we made some mistakes and you can’t give a team like that anything.”
In the Falmouth fourth, Velas led off with a triple and scored on a sharp single by MacDowell. Singles by Drew Proctor and Seamus Powers loaded the bases, and Will D’Agostino singled to make for a 6-3 game. With two outs, Thomas Fosher delivered a two-run single to complete the inning and give Falmouth a 9-3 lead.
Murphy slowed Freeport from there, pitching six innings with 10 strikeouts, two walks and five hits allowed. D’Agostino pitched an inning and struck out the side, surrendering a single to Nick Cartmell, who was 2- for-4.
Falmouth added two runs in the sixth inning off of Davenport as Fosher (2-for-4) drove in two more runs with a long double to finish with five RBIs. Powers and Velas were both 2- for-3 at the plate, while Emple scored three runs.
LaMagna and Davenport combined on 11 hits, three walks and nine strikeouts in the loss. Dan Burke was 2-for- 3 at the plate, while Gage Golding added a single.
Falmouth 11,
Freeport 3
At Freeport
Falmouth — 400 502 0 — 11-11-2
Freeport — 102 000 0 — 3- 6-2
Connor Murphy, Will D’Agostino (7)
and Connor MacDowell; Pete LaMagna, Jack Davenport (5) and Brian
Rhea.
Doubles — (Fal) Thomas Fosher.
Triples — (Fal) Luke Velas.
Home run — (Fpt) Jack Davenport.
Repeat hitters — (Fal) Seamus Powers, Thomas Fosher, Luke Velas; (Fpt)
Dan Burke.
Records — Falmouth 2-0, Freeport 1-
3.
Up next for the Falcons — Today at
home against York, 4 p.m.
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