BALTIMORE, Md. – The eighth-ranked Salisbury University baseball team went yard three times en route to smashing the 13th-ranked Southern Maine Huskies, 17-3, on Saturday afternoon at Babb Field at Stromberg Stadium on the campus of Johns Hopkins University.

BOX SCORE

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Kavi Caster set the tone from the downbeat, leading off the game with a home run to straightaway center to put the Sea Gulls up 1-0.
• The Huskies answered with a bases-loaded walk to tie it in the bottom of the first inning, but Salisbury retook the lead for good in the top of the second as Jimmy Adkins brought home Scott Cameron with a sac fly to right that made it 2-1.
• The Sea Gulls busted the game open with a seven-run third. With the bases loaded and no out, Cameron Hyder brought home the first run with an RBI single. Cameron followed with a sac fly, then after a hit batsman loaded up the bases again, Luke Weddell hit a flyball to center that Cameron Slicer dropped, bringing in another run to make it 5-1.
• Adkins drew a bases-loaded walk to force in a run, then Caster hit an RBI groundout to plate another. Stephen Rice followed with the hammer, slashing a double down the left field line that scored both Weddell and Adkins to make it 9-1 Sea Gulls.
• Southern Maine got a run back in the home third on a Jonathan Wilson RBI double that made it 9-2.
• Dom Frigiola was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the top of the fourth, forcing in a run to push the Sea Gulls over double digits at 10-2.
• The teams traded a run each in the fifth. Cameron brought home Ben Anderson with a two-out RBI single for Salisbury, then Southern Maine scored on a Tom Vesosky sac fly to make it 11-3.
• Salisbury put together another big inning in the sixth. Frigiola led off with a double, then two batters later Adkins walked and Frigiola took third on a wild pitch. Frigiola came home on another wild pitch, and after Adkins stole second he advanced to third on yet another wild pitch. Caster came up next and singled Adkins home, then Rice pounded a two-run homer to left center, making it a four-run inning and 15-3 cushion.
• Caster punctuated the game in the eighth with a two-run blast to dead central, his second homer of the game, giving Salisbury the 17-3 it kept through the final out.

SALISBURY GAME NOTES

• Kavi Caster put together a monster day at the plate for the Sea Gulls, going 3-for-6 with two home runs, three runs scored and five RBIs from the leadoff slot.
• Stephen Rice brought the power batting right behind Caster, finishing 3-for-6 with a double, homer, two runs scored and four RBIs.
• Jimmy Adkins provided a spark at the bottom of the order, batting 1-for-2 with a pair of walks, three runs, two RBIs and a stolen base.
• Scott Cameron finished 1-for-2 with a pair of rib-eyes and a run scored, while Cameron Hyder went 2-for-5 with a double, run and RBI.
• Ben Anderson went 1-for-4 with three runs scored, and Dom Frigiola went 2-for-3 with a double, two runs and an RBI.
• Xavier Marmol (1-0) earned his first win of the season in relief, giving up just one hit over 3.1 scoreless frames with no walks and four strikeouts.
• Benji Thalheimer finished one out shy of qualifying for the victory, allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits in 4.2 innings with three walks and four punchouts.
• Brady Bash tossed a 1-2-3 ninth to finish the job for the Sea Gulls.

SOUTHERN MAINE GAME NOTES

• Jonathan Wilson finished 1-for-2 with an RBI double.
• Tom Vesosky and Jack Leblond also picked up RBIs for the Huskies.
• Clay Robbins (0-1) absorbed the loss, giving up four runs on three hits in two-plus innings.

UP NEXT

• The eighth-ranked Sea Gulls engage another tough opponent on Sunday, taking on fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins in a top-10 showdown.
• First pitch from Babb Field at Stromberg Stadium is set for 1 p.m., moved an hour back from its original 12 p.m. start time due to anticipated rainy weather.

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with the New Jersey Athletic Conference for football and the Metropolitan Swimming and Diving Conference for men's and women's swimming. With over 500 student-athletes in 21 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, and dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on-and-off the field. The Sea Gulls have celebrated 22 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 186 conference championships and 41 Academic All-Americans.

To learn more about the tradition of excellence with Sea Gull Athletics, visit www.SUSeaGulls.com or on social media @SUSeaGulls.