WNE Eliminates Baseball from CCC Tournament

BEVERLY, Mass. – Suffolk baseball's bats never got going and the third seeded Rams were upset by fifth seed Western New England 12-2 Friday afternoon at North Field on the campus of Endicott College. The setback eliminated the blue-and-gold from the 2024 Commonwealth Coast Conference Tournament.                                                                    

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 2 | Western New England 12
RECORDS: Suffolk (26-17) | Western New England (23-19) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
A two-run double in the first frame off Cody Waterbury's bats gave the Golden Bears a 2-0 early edge.  

Two innings later, Sean Jamieson slugged a two-run shot to right to double the distance, 4-0.  

WNE lengthened its lead to five in the top of the fourth behind a one-run single up the middle by Ryan Montini.

Suffolk started to score in the bottom of the fifth when Harry Painter's double down the left field line plated Jonny Gilbride, who reached on a fielder's choice. 

The ground the Rams made up was quickly erased and then some as the Golden Bears put up four runs in the sixth to take a lopsided advantage 9-1.

In the home half of the sixth Suffolk ha d chance to make up some ground as the buses were chucked. Painter, who was 2-for-3 on the day up to that point, faced a full count with two outs. The junior first base swung at high pitch and was off the mark to keep all the ducks in the pond and the eight-run gap still.

Western New England continued to pile on the runs with a pair in the eighth to make it a double digit distance, 11-1. 

The teams traded one run over the next half innings for the 12-2 final. The Rams last run of the day and the season came on a productive ground out from Colin Flynn that plated Max Martin, who doubled.  

PITCHERS PICTURE

• Brett Bucklin took the loss on the hill after giving up eight runs on eight hits and two walks in 5.0 innings of work. He sat down two batters. 
• Cam Martin (1 H, 1 R, 2 BB), Jack Raimo (3.0 IP, 2 R, 4 H, 1 K) and Gregory Kaufmann (1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R) all came out of the pen for Suffolk. 
  Greg Nivison logged the win for the Golden Bears behind a one-run, three-hit, six-walk, one-strikeout effort in 5.0 frames of work. 
• Cam Heeman shoved 3.0 innings of relief. He let up one run on two hits and fanned one hitter. 
• Aidan Gowaski tossed 1.0 inning of scoreless, hitless relief with one punchout.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Painter led at the plate with a 2-for-5 effort with one double and one RBI.
• Flynn brought in one run and had one hit. 
• Max Martin added one hit, a double, and scored one run. 
• Gilbride scored one run. 
• Alex Sorenti-Burns had one hit.  

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk wrapped up its fourth trip and fourth in as many seasons to the CCC Tournament. is in the middle 
• Suffolk competed as the tournament's third seed in the CCC Tournament for the first time. 
• As the three seed, the blue-and-gold is 2-2 in the CCC playoffs. 
• Suffolk is now 4-8 in the CCC postseason. 
• In neutral site games, Suffolk sports a 1-1 record in the CCC postseason. 
• Suffolk battled WNE in the CCC postseason for the third time. 
• Every meeting between Suffolk and WNE in the CCC playoffs has come in an elimination game.