Framingham State and Westfield State are moving on to the winner's bracket of the MASCAC Baseball Tournament after winning their quarterfinal games on Friday afternoon.

No. 3 Framingham State 10, No. 2 Massachusetts Maritime 1    Box Score

Buzzards Bay, Mass. – The third seed Framingham State University baseball team tallied two runs in the top of the sixth to take the lead for good en route to a 10-1 victory over second seed Massachusetts Maritime Academy in a second round game of the 2018 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) Baseball Tournament.

With the win, the Rams improve to 19-17 on the season and advance in the winner's bracket of the tournament. The Rams will face top seed Westfield State on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in Westfield.  Mass. Maritime (18-14) falls into the loser's bracket and will face Salem State tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. in Westfield in an elimination game.

Framingham State junior Kyle Hodgson (Berkley, Mass.) and Mass. Maritime's John Teehan were locked in a scoreless pitcher's duel through five innings.  Teehan struck out 10 through the first five, while Hodgson struck out five and allowed just four hits.

The Rams finally got on the board in the top of the sixth with a pair of runs.  Senior Cameron Borrelli (Peabody, Mass.) singled in the first run and classmate Kyle Pileski (Bristol, Conn.) followed with a sacrifice fly.

The Rams continued to build their lead with a single run in the seventh and four in the eighth.  Junior Kyle Lippert (Carlsbad, Calif.) plated a run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh.  Pileski and junior Matt Fogarty (Millis, Mass.) delivered RBI singles in the eighth and a double play ball accounted for the final run of the frame.

The Buccaneers got on the board in the bottom of the eighth in the bottom of the eighth on a solo homer to right center by Logan Sullo, but the Rams added three more in the top of the ninth to reach the final margin.

Hodgson went the distance en route to earning his fourth victory of the season on the mound. Hodgson allowed just one earned run on five hits with six strikeouts and a walk.

Teehan took the loss going seven innings allowing three earned runs on four hits with 11 strikeouts.

Borrelli finished the game with three hits and three RBI for the Rams, while Fogarty recorded a pair of hits and added two RBI.  Pileski drove in a pair of runs, while junior Aaron Williams (Brockton, Mass.) collected three hits and scored three times.

No. 1 Westfield State 13, No. 4 Salem State 7        Box Score

WESTFIELD, Mass. --  Top-seeded Westfield State rolled to a big early lead, then held on late to defeat Salem State, 13-7, in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball tournament at Bud and Jim Hagan Field.
 
Westfield improves to 22-15-1 with the win, and will play Framingham State in the winners' bracket game tomorrow at noon.   Third-seed Salem falls to 21-18 and will play Mass Maritime Academy in an elimination game tomorrow at 9:30 a.m.   All remaining games in the tournament are hosted at Westfield State's Hagan Field.
 
For Westfield, ace John Gegetskas (W, 8-1)  rolled through the first six innings allowing just one run.  The Owls bats hung five runs on the board in the second inning, and five more in the third inning to lead 10-0.
 
In the second, Vikings starter Steven Leavitt (L, 4-4) ran into trouble, yielding 2 RBI doubles to both Colin Dunn and Alex Lafayette.
 
Westfield's big bats kept it rolling in the third, as three runs scored on Anthony Crowley's wind-blown pop fly single that fell in for a hit in shallow right center field with two out.
 
Salem finally got on the board in the fifth, as Brendan Greene's groundout scored R.J. Warnock from third to cut the lead to 11-1.
 
Westfield threatened to cut the game short by virtue of the tournament's 12-run mercy rule after seven innings, as the Owls grabbed a 13-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth inning on RBI singles by Crowley and Aaron Clancy, but Salem netted a pair of runs in the bottom half to extend the game.
 
Gegetskas finally ran out of gas in the eighth inning, leaving after allowing nine hits and four runs, while striking out three and walking three.  He improves to 8-1 on the season, the best 1-loss season by an Owls pitcher.
 
Tyler Tongue and Scott Strachan worked the final inning and two-thirds, surrendering three more runs to the Vikings.
 
Crowley finished 3-5 with four RBI for the Owls, and now has 51 runs batted in for the season, the second-most in a single season in school history. Tyler Beach added three hits, two runs and two rbi.  John Lippincott had a pair of hits, including a double, and scored three times, and Alex Lafayette finished 2-4 with two doubles and two RBI.
 
For Salem, Warnoc and Shawn Rebello each finished with three hits.  Senior Ryan Kelleher provided a workmanlike effort out of the bullpen, working the final 5.1 innings, allowing eight hits and three runs while striking out three to save the Vikings bullpen for tomorrow.

Releases courtesy of Framingham State and Westfield State Sports Information