This past weekend, the Colby baseball team came up short against the Trinity College Bantams, dropping all three contests in a three-game weekend series. The two teams first matched up on Friday evening, where the Bantams ended up taking the contest by a score of 7–4. The Bantam scoring began in the top of the first inning, where a Colby error led to Trinity’s Tyler Bernstein crossing the plate with the game’s first run. The Mules answered back in the bottom of the third inning, when Tony Silva `26 hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Patrick Shrake `27, drawing the score even. A pair of Trinity doubles put them back ahead by a run in the fourth, and they added two further runs to cushion their lead in the sixth, when Andrew Park hit a home run.
Another Colby error led to a pair of Trinity runs in the top of the seventh inning, expanding the lead to 6–1, but Shrake scored on a Myles Gythfeldt `28 hit to cut the deficit by a run. Park scored the final Bantam run of the game with another home run, and a late Mule rally led by Gythfeldt and Silva came up short, ending the game with a final score of 7–4.
In game two on Saturday morning, the two offenses showed less power, but the Bantams still snuck by with a win 4–3 in extra innings. Trinity again jumped out to a lead, scoring a run in each of the first two innings to go ahead 2–0, but Colby was quick to respond, as reigning NESCAC Player of the Week Will Burns `27 crushed a three-run home run to take the lead.
Trinity knotted the score on a sacrifice fly in the sixth, and the game entered extra innings tied at 3. It was Park who again played the hero for Trinity in the twelfth inning, doubling to bring home Timmy Domizio, and the Mules were unable to score in the bottom of the frame, giving the Bantams a second win.
In a repeat of the first two games, the third matchup saw Trinity take the lead early, this time in explosive fashion. Park got the offense started with an RBI single, and five Bantams crossed the plate before the Mules could escape the first inning. Shrake hit a sacrifice ground-out that plated a run for Colby, but the game entered the sixth inning with Trinity ahead 7–1. There, Colby’s Jeb Burkhart `29 continued his strong season at the plate with a two-run homer, and a Silva double the following inning scored one run as well. Ultimately, the offensive surge was too little, too late, and the game ended with a 7–4 Trinity win.
With the regular season rapidly drawing to a close, Colby looks to solidify their postseason seeding, as they are set to play four important games this week. They face off against Husson University at home on Wednesday, before squaring off against Bowdoin College for three games over the weekend. Both Bowdoin and Colby have won their series against Bates, so the winner of these three will be crowned the CBB Champion.
~ Matt Quealy `26
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