GORHAM, Me. - Senior first baseman Joe Gambino (Stamford, Conn.) belted three hits and drove in a run. However, the Western Connecticut State University baseball team dropped both games of a doubleheader at Little East Conference nemesis Southern Maine on Saturday afternoon. The Wolves were held to just three hits in the opening 14-0 loss. Their bats heated up in the 8-4 loss in Game Two. 

WestConn faced a tough task in Game One. Southern Maine sophomore starting pitcher Clay Robbins (Auburn, Me.) tossed six solid innings while striking out three and surrendering just three hits. Junior Lucas Francis (Lisbon, Me.) tossed the final seventh inning to seal the win for the Huskies. 

Graduate student Jake Montas (Ellington, Conn.), senior Nick Lepere (Beacon, N.Y.) and junior Jesse Dunn (Bedford, N.Y.) each recorded hits for the visitors.

WestConn fell behind early in the nightcap, 3-0. But they trimmed it to 3-2 with runs in the second and third frames. Senior Cameron Bogli (Vernon, Conn.) knocked an RBI single up the middle. Shortly therafter, Gambino ripped a run scoring double to the right center gap. 

The hosts answered with four runs in the fifth before tacking another in the seventh, widening the lead to 8-2. Sophomore Nicholas Moeller (Mahopac, N.Y.) stepped to the plate with the bases loaded in the ninth and smacked a single up the middle, scoring two runners and rounding the game out at 8-4. 

With the pair of losses, WestConn dropped to 3-21 overall and 0-6 in LEC play, while Southern Maine improved to 8-12 and 4-2. The Wolves return to the diamond when they host cross-state archrival Eastern Connecticut on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.