BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- Softball hosted Clark on Sunday in their third doubleheader in as many days. The Buccaneers lost the first game, 11-5, and the second game was suspended in the top of the second inning due to heavy rain on Taylor's Point.

The Basics

Final: Cougars 11, Buccaneers 5

Records: Maritime 6-5

               Clark 7-4

In the Circle

Maritime: Jennamarie Klemp (L, 4-3): 7 IP | 18 H | 11 R | 11 ER | 4 BB | 0 K

Clark: Brooke Buzzeo (W, 4-1): 7 IP | 8 H | 5 R | 4 ER | 4 BB | 15 K

Inside the Numbers

Maritime

• Reagan Kerecz, Hannah Burton, and Kelsey Booker all had two hits in the game. Carlee Hiddeman and Mikale Lemons each had one.
• Burton and Hiddeman recorded doubles in the loss.
• Booker drove in three runs, and Hiddeman knocked in two.
• Kerecz and Burton both scored twice, and Eva Warren scored the fifth Buccaneer run.
• Lemons stole two bases in the loss, and Kerecz stole one.

Clark

• Megan Dube and Merry Griffin each had four hits in the win. Avery Dillon added three, and Charlise Quigley and Jennifer Albano had two apiece. Three other Cougars recorded one hit.
• Dube had two doubles in the game for Clark.
• Dube and Griffin each drove in three runs. Felicia Salvati and Gricelda Castro drove in one.
• Dillon and Dube scored three times, and Quigley scored twice. Three other Clark base runners scored once.
• Dillon, Dube, and Griffin each stole a base in the win.

How It Happened

Clark scored five runs in the top of the first to jump out to a substantial lead before the Buccaneers even got to bat. In the bottom of the first, Booker singled in Kerecz and Burton to cut the deficit to three runs, 5-2. 

In the top of the second, Griffin made the score 7-2 when she singled in Dube and Dillon. 

The Cougars added a run in the top of the fourth on a Salvati groundout that brought in Dube. Clark led 8-2 after four. 

In the fifth, the Buccaneers got a run back on another RBI single for Booker that brought in Kerecz. 

Clark added three insurance runs in the top of the seventh inning with Albano scoring on a Buccaneer error and a Dube double that scored two more. Down 11-3, Hiddeman delivered a two-RBI double to left field in the bottom of the seventh, scoring Warren and Burton, but that was all the Bucs would get back as they fell to the Cougars, 11-5.

What's Next

The Bucs host Dean College on Wednesday, March 25th, at 4 pm in a non-conference doubleheader at Rollins Field.