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Michael Maiocco delvers a pitch
Fran Ruchalski
Michael Maiocco tossed a four-hit shutout Friday night.
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Winner Flagler FLG 20-10, 8-2 PBC
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Francis Marion FMU 20-9, 4-6 PBC
Winner
Flagler FLG
20-10, 8-2 PBC
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Final
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Francis Marion FMU
20-9, 4-6 PBC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Flagler FLG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 0
Francis Marion FMU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1

W: Maiocco, Michael (7-1) L: Chance DuCharme (2-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Maiocco tosses four-hit shutout Friday night

FLORENCE, S.C. – Michael Maiocco (7-1) tossed a complete game four-hit shutout to help lead No. 24 (Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Division II Top 30) Flagler College to a 2-0 win over Francis Marion University in a Peach Belt Conference baseball game Friday night at Sparrow Stadium.

Flagler improved to 20-10 overall and 8-2 in the Peach Belt. The Saints won its eighth consecutive Friday night contest. The complete game shutout by Maiocco was the first for a Flagler pitcher since Mike O'Reilly did the same, nearly a year ago to the day (March 25, 2016) vs. Columbus State University. Francis Marion drops to 20-9 overall and 4-6 in conference play.

Maiocco retired the first seven batters he faced and only allowed two base runners to reach scoring position in the game. He scattered four hits, allowed one walk and struck out three batters. Maiocco forced 14 ground outs and eight fly outs.

The Saints would break up the scoreless tie in the top of the ninth inning. Sean Lawlor worked a lead-off walk and Ja'Kobi Dasher had a pinch hit single to right field. Dylan Jones sacrificed both runners up a base with a bunt. Adam Hornstra came on to pitch in relief and faced Ethan Crout. Crout hit a ground ball to shortstop, but the ball was mishandled as Zach Callahan saw that Lawlor was trying to score from third. Jake Hathaway drew a walk to load the bases. Cole Hinnant, playing his third position of the game after starting in center field, was brought in to end the inning. He struck out his first batter, but then uncorked a wild pitch allowing Dasher to score the second unearned run of the inning. Hinnant would get out of the inning two batters later.

In the home-half of the ninth, with two outs, Harris White was hit by a pitch, but Maiocco got William Robbins to ground out to second to end the game.

Crout had two of Flagler's three singles.

Chance DuCharme (2-2) was the hard-luck loser in the game. He retired 14-of-the-first 15 batters he faced. DuCharme tossed 8 1/3 innings and allowed just three hits and two unearned runs. He walked two and fanned six.

Reese Cooley, Logan Koch, Hinnant and Trey Chapman all hit a single for the Patriots.

The same two teams meet tomorrow (March 25) at 2 p.m.    
         
 
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