The Colby Echo

Issue date: 4/16/08 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Rob Kievit After dropping several league games, Colby falls to a 10-9 record on the season.

After cruising to eight wins in Arizona, the baseball team has faced some adversity since coming back to the Northeast. In their nine games since returning from Arizona, the Mules have posted a 2-7 record and are 0-5 in the New England Small College Athletic Conference East baseball division.

Due to inclement weather, the week started with a Bowdoin College double header in which both teams traveled down to Medford, Mass. to play on the Tufts University field. Bowdoin took both games with Colby shouldering 9-0 and 9-3 losses respectively. Mid-week, Colby traveled within Maine to take an 11-1 win from Husson College while being stymied by the St. Josephs College squad in a 6-3 loss. In the Husson game, Michael Cuqua '10 went two-for-three with a pair of runs and two RBIs to lead the Mules. Colin Riggs '08 scored three times and John LaMantia '08 had two runs for the winners. The non-divisional games seemed to lack meaning while the team looked ahead to the undefeated and NESCAC reigning Trinity College Bantams, who came to play at Coombs Field for a three game series.

Trinity showed why it is deserving of their 21-0 record (7-0 NESCAC East) with dominating performances on both Friday and Saturday. In the first game of the series Trinity stated its presence in a 14-2 win. Tim Kiely, pitched a flawless complete game for the Bantams, in which he struck out ten Mules. Kiely has now allowed one ER and has struck out 39 in 42 innings pitched this year. In the Saturday double header, Trinity took both games to sweep the series by a combined score of 25-2. The long ball powered the Bantam offense as Trinity went deep seven times in the series, three of which came from the single bat of James Wood. More impressive was the ability of the Trinity pitching staff to shut down the Colby offense, which had been dominant all season. The Mules hit just .260 with RISP and .186 as a team in the series, while their season average still stands at .315.

Pitcher Bobby Whelan '09 felt the Trinity domination had a simple analysis. "Their pitchers threw strikes and got ahead in the count. Once they scored some runs, they had the ability to bear down and shut out our offense. It was impressive."

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