No. 13 Boston College Faces Maine Tuesday in Brighton

Tuesday, March 9

Brighton, Mass.

3:00 PM

Boston College

Maine

Cody Morissette takes the field vs. Rhode Island

Photo by: John Quackenbos

No. 13 Boston College Faces Maine Tuesday in Brighton

March 08, 2021 | Baseball

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The Eagles moved up in the polls and return home to take on the Black Bears on ACCNX.

By: Athletic Communications

All home 2020-21 BC athletics events will be closed to the public due to Covid-19 protocols.

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- No. 13 Boston College hosts Maine for a midweek match-up at the Harrington Athletics Village on Tuesday at 3 p.m. The game will be streamed on ACCNX with Eric Gallanty and Josh Maurer on the call.

About the Eagles...
BC is 8-2 overall, 2-1 in the ACC and peaks in the national polls at No. 13 by Baseball America following a series win at No. 25 Auburn of the SEC. Junior center fielder Sal Frelick, the reigning ACC Player of the Week, is hitting a team-high .476 with 15 runs scored and four home runs. Sophomore second baseman Luke Gold is second at .366 with a team-leading 16 RBI and four home runs. Graduate left-handed pitcher Joey Walsh has made a team-high five appearances, including one spot-start. He is 1-0 with three saves, a 3.46 earned run average and 15 strikeouts in 13 innings.

Scouting the Black Bears...
Maine opened its season this past weekend by taking three of four from Merrimack. Third baseman Connor Goodman hit a team-best .500 (8-for-16) on the weekend with four runs scored. First baseman Joe Bramanti went 7-for-17 against the Warriors with a home run and three RBI. Right-hander Peter Kemble gets the start on Tuesday. He appeared in 16 games as a sophomore, including 10 starts, and went 3-7 with 31 strikeouts.

All-Time vs. Maine...
The Black Bears lead the all-time series, 15-10. The Eagles have one each of the last four match-ups, averaging 12.3 runs per game, in the last six years.

Last Time They Met...
In the highest scoring game in Harrington Athletics Village history, BC scored five unanswered runs in the last three innings for a 19-16 win over Maine, which led 11-5 with a 10-run top of the third. Joe Suozzi went 3-for-5 with four RBBI, two doubles and a triple. Lucas Stalman walked four times and scored five runs. Gian Martellini homered in a 2-for-5 effort for BC. Joe Bramanti went 3-for-6 with two RBI in Maine's clean-up spot. The game was played May 14, 2019 with a first pitch temperature of 45 degrees in Brighton.

Down to Their Last Strike...
The Eagles entered the ninth inning of the rubber-match at No. 25 Auburn trailing 9-1. With two outs, BC scratched across its first run since taking a brief 1-0 lead in the second. The Eagles scored again and then found themselves down to their last strike in three consecutive at-bats and all three reached base; trimming the deficit to five. Chris Galland kept the line moving with a two-run double and Sal Frelick, who led off the inning with a single, tied the game with a three-run home run. BC claimed victory, 11-9, behind a two-run home run off the bat of Luke Gold in the top of the 10th. The win marked the Eagles' first series victory in program history over a SEC opponent in four tries. It was also just the third comeback of eight runs or more in the entire NCAA since 2017 (Miami over Clemson, 2018; Florida A&M over ETSU, 2017).

Inside The Polls...
The Eagles are in the national polls for the second week in a row; ranking No. 13 in the Baseball America top-25. BC is ranked for the first time since peaking at No. 16 in the final ranking of 2016 following a Super Regional appearance. BC's ranking on March 1 marked just the second in-season ranking for the Eagles, who were No. 22 by Collegiate Baseball News on March 14, 2016 with a 12-3 record; the first ranking in program history. BC's current ranking is the highest in program history and the highest for a New England program since Connecticut (No. 14 - 2011 final poll).