In regular season baseball action last week, the Caribou Vikings finished on a good note with a 5-0 shutout win over Presque Isle Thursday.
The Vikes outhit the Wildcats, 11-6, to avenge an early-season loss to PI. Royce Landeen struck out six batters and did not allow a walk in seven innings of work to post the pitching victory.
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First baseman Garrett Jordan of the Vikings squeezes the ball in his glove to make a putout of a Wildcat baserunner during Thursday’s varsity baseball game in Presque Isle. Caribou won, 5-0.
Adam Chartier had two hits and an RBI, Garrett Jordan stroked a pair of run-scoring singles, Stephen St. Peter banged out two doubles and Matt Kamm chipped in with two singles to lead Caribou offensively.
Ryley Norton tripled and doubled for PI and Isaac LaJoie contributed two singles. Saul Nunez suffered the pitching loss, with Wilder York coming on in relief in the fifth inning.
Caribou finished at 5-11 and PI at 7-9. Both teams missed out on the EM Class B playoffs, finishing 15th and 14th, respectively. Only the top 10 qualified.
Limestone-MSSM dropped an 11-10 decision at Madawaska that afternoon. The Owls came back in the contest, scoring four times in the bottom of the seventh inning to force extra innings and then scoring three times in the bottom of the eighth after the Eagles had scored two in the top of the frame.
Bret Butler, Arron St. Pierre, Nate Tucker and Nick Whitehead had two hits apiece for Limestone-MSSM, which ended up with a 6-10 record, in 13th place in EM Class D and out of the post-season picture.
The Fort Fairfield Tigers (6-9) were edged out by just over 1/10th of a point for the ninth and final playoff position following last Wednesday’s 13-2 home loss to Central Aroostook.
Washburn beat East Grand in its final game of the season in Washburn last Tuesday. It was the Beavers’ third win of the year against 13 losses. Coach Ben Goodwin’s squad came in 15th place in the division.
The Limestone-MSSM softball team will get its “second season” under way as the quarterfinal round of the Eastern Maine Class D playoffs begin this week.
The Eagles are the top seed in the division with their 13-3 record. Coach Ryan O’Neal’s squad has been an offensive juggernaut throughout the campaign, averaging just over 18 runs per contest. The team had only three games where they scored less than 13 runs.
The team ended its season last Tuesday with a 17-9 victory at Madawaska. In the game, Chelsea Leighton spearheaded a 13-hit attack with three singles and three RBIs, with Daniele Pelkey also contributing three hits and Ashlyn Kelly two with a pair of RBIs. The Eagles actually trailed 8-2 before coming back in the later innings.
Limestone-MSSM’s first-round opponent will be Wisdom on Thursday at 4 p.m. in Limestone. The eighth-ranked Pioneers feature strong pitching, but when the two teams met for the only time during the regular season on May 23, the Eagles came away with a 13-4 victory.
Last Wednesday, Central Aroostook blanked Fort Fairfield in both teams’ regular season finale, 15-0. Alyssa Dougherty had both Tiger hits.
Also in regular season play, Washburn fell in a home game to East Grand, 18-12. Makayla Ronco had three hits and five RBIs and Carmen Bragg had two hits in the loss. The Beavers went 2-13 and finished 12th in the standings.
Presque Isle and Caribou met in a regular-season clincher Thursday in PI, with the Vikes shutting out the Wildcats 8-0 behind a two-hitter by junior ace pitcher Emily Staples.
Staples struck out eight and walked only one in the complete-game performance.
Kristin Plante and Rebecca McDougal had three hits each to lead Caribou’s 16-hit attack.
Caribou (9-7) grabbed the eighth seed in Eastern Maine Class B and hosted Belfast in a preliminary playoff contest yesterday afternoon at CHS. The winner will take on No. 1 Medomak Valley in Waldoboro in Thursday’s quarterfinal round.
