Bangor, ME - Husson Baseball fell to in-state foe University of Southern Maine Thursday afternoon in a late afternoon twist at the Winkin Complex. The Eagles allowed 8 runs in the top of the 7th including a grand slam by USM's Chris Bernard to round out the Husky scoring in the inning.

Tucker White put the first run on the board in the top of the first when he doubled down the left field line, plating Sam Dexter and moving Forrest Chadwick to third.

Two innings later Troy Thibodeau bunt singled to third scoring Nick Grady.

Pat Thibodeau singled up the middle in the bottom half, to score Cody McInnis. Brandon Gendreau advanced to second on the play but was stranded there. 

In the top of fourth Tucker White launched a three-run bomb to left center scoring Sam Dexter and Anthony Pisani. USM then led 5-1. 

The Eagles mounted a rally in the bottom of the fifth starting with a Brandon Gendreau double to left. Pat Thibodeau reached in the next at bat on an error, advancing Gendreau to third. JT Whitten flied out to left and the Huskies brought in Ryan Browner to toe the rubber. Kyle Bishop pinch hit for Husson's Brandon Campbell and chopped to second base. The Huskies tried to flip the double play but Pisani air-mailed the throw to first for the second out and everyone advanced. Thibodeau moved to third and scored on the throw as Husson cut the lead to 5-3 that inning.

The Huskies scored two more runs of their own the next inning on a Nick Grady tripe to right center scoring Forrest Chadwick and a Chris Bernard fly-out to center that Grady scored on.

The Eagles tacked on another run in the bottom of the sixth to make it 7-4 USM.

The Huskies put up an eight-spot to extend their lead in the top of the seventh, capped off by a Bernard grand slam to center to make the game 15-4.

Husson pushed four more across in the bottom of the eighth to pull within 7 at 15-8, but that was how the game ended, with both teams going scoreless in the ninth.

Manager Jason Harvey said of the afternoon: "We ran into a real hot team today that have been swinging the bats well. Our guys battled but just didn't enough. The nice thing about baseball is we get an opportunity to get back on the right track this weekend. We now have to [get rid of] this game and concentrate on this weekend"

The Eagles will take on Castleton state on 1:00 and 3:30pm Saturday and 12:00 and 2:30pm Sunday in an NAC battle.