University of New Brunswick Caris Cougars defeated Saint Mary's Huskies 7-0 in Atlantic University Baseball League action Saturday. Game two was tied 1-1 in the forth inning when rain suspended the game. No make up date has been scheduled. But they lost a pair of games to St. Francis Xavier X-Men yesterday at Thompson Field. Game scores were 6-3 and 8-0.
Jake Waugh pitched the win for UNB Saturday. Craig Henman was the losing pitcher. UNB had 12 hits overall while the Huskies managed nine. Yesterday, Brian Garby had the win in the X-Men's 6-3 win. Nathan Fraser got the save. Andrew McNeil was the losing pitcher. Mark MacNevin had a homer for UNB. Fraser fired a four-hit shutout in the second game. Steve Murphy was the losing pitcher for the Cougars, allowing 10 hits.
Next action for UNB is Wednesday night in Moncton at 7:00 p.m. against ABU.
The UNB Baseball team traveled to Nova Scotia this past weekend and lost three of four games. The team split a pair of games with Dal on Saturday. In game one, UNB lost 10-5 but came back in the second game to post an 8-3 victory. In game 1, UNB’s defense let down starting picture Phil Brown, committing 5 errors in the first inning, leading to 5 unearned runs. Brown went 3 innings, walked two batters, hit one, and surrendered 3 hits while striking out 2. Nick Cameron pitched the last 3 innings, walking 5 and hitting 2 Dal players. He struck out 1, giving up 3 hits and 4 runs. Andrew MacLaggan went 2 for 3 at the plate and walked once. Brad Lawson had a double, Brown, Corey Hughes, Jacob Smith and Ryan Corey all had singles.
In game 2, Ryan Corey pitched the complete game, walked 4 and hit 4, struck out 5. He scattered 8 hits surrendered 3 runs. UNB offence and defense finally came to life. Jacob Smith went 3 for 4, scored two runs with an RBI. Corey Hughes had a single and a double and scored twice. Andrew Ahearn and Nick Cameron both had two RBI’s. Phil Brown and Ryan Corey both had singles.
UNB snapped DAL’s 6 game winning streak handing them their first lose of the season.
On Sunday, the team traveled to St. F.X. and lost both games of a double header. In game 1, UNB lost 13-3 in 5 innings courtesy of the mercy rule. Alex English took the loss for UNB. In game 2 St. F.X. once again took an early lead and won by a score of 7-2. Losing pitcher was Steve Somerville.
UNB’s next game is Wednesday night in Moncton against ABU.
UNB dropped their record to 3 and 2 after a 4-3 loss to Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton.
UNB starter Steve Murphy struggle early allowing 4 runs on 3 hits, striking out 1 and issuing 6 walks. UNB scored all their runs in the third inning.
In last night’s game all our hits came in the 3 run 3rd, other than Ryan Corey’s 1b in the 1st. In the 3rd , J. Smith had double, Ryan Corey” s infield bloop, then Lawson singled. Ahearn drove in 1 with a groundball to 1st, then Cameron singled to score Corey. Next up was Ryan MacDonald who singled to score Lawson, and Cameron was thrown out at plate on the play.
For ABU, Serge Vautour had a double, single , walk and an RBI. Craig Allen had a double in the 2nd and game winning RBI in the bottom of the third when he drove in Mike Ivey who had reached on a walk.
Mario Cormier picked up the win with Steve Aube earning the save.
The UNB Cougars men's baseball team won three of four games to start off the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association season on the weekend.
The Cougars swept the visiting Cape Breton University Capers by scores of 3-0 and 3-2 Saturday at Royals Field and split a pair against the Saint Mary's Huskies Sunday, splitting a pair of 1-0 pitcher's duels with the Saint Mary's Huskies.
Saturday, Alex English fired a two-hit shutout as the Cougars scored all they would need with a first inning pair of runs. English fanned four and walked just one for the Cougars. Andrew McNeil hit a double and single to lead the Cougars at the plate. Brad Lawson added a double.
Cougars won the nightcap 3-2 in extra innings as Jake Waugh went the distance to outduel Cape Breton lefty Jamie Williams.
Waugh surrendered six hits, walked two and whiffed 11. Williams gave up just two hits, walked five and hit a pair. Phil Brown drove in McNeil with the game winning run in the bottom of the eighth.
The pitching was just as spectacular on Sunday as the Cougars and Huskies traded 1-0 victories.
In the opener, Steve Sommerville spun a complete game four hitter, walked one and fanned a pair. Jake Waugh drove in the game winning run.
In the second game, Saint Mary's star Duncan Cronk - he spends his summer in Saint John with the Expos of the New Brunswick Junior Baseball League- subdued the Cougars on just two hits, walked three and fanned three to earn the win over McNeil, who lasted three innings, gave up two hits and the earned run, walked three and fanned six. Jared Doyle and Ryan Corey finished up. The Huskies left 14 men on base over the seven innings, but scored the only run they would need in the third. The results were enough to put the Cougars third in the first CIBA rankings, behind Dalhousie, which went 4-0 on the opening weekend of play. Ottawa U is second, with UNB listed third, Saint Mary's fourth and Queens University of Ontario fifth.
The Cougars are in Moncton Wednesday to face the ABU Mets.