BRIDGEWATER – The Barnstable High baseball team saw its record fall to 1-3 Thursday afternoon with a 2-0 road loss to host Bridgewater-Raynham, in spite of a stellar complete-game effort from sophomore righty Ben Floren.
Barnstable High’s Ben Floren went the distance Thursday afternoon on the road against rival B-R, but took the hard-luck loss.
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Floren went six innings and scattered eight hits while striking out two. He allowed one walk and two earned runs, but that would prove to be all that the host Trojans would need to put this one away.
That’s chiefly because Notre Dame-bound senior captain Jack Connolly tossed a complete-game, three-hit shutout over the Red Raiders, and retired the side in succession in four out of the seven innings he threw. Connolly walked just two and hit a pair of Red Raider batsmen.
All totaled, the hard-throwing righty allowed just seven Barnstable hitters to reach base safely.
B-R’s hard-slugging outfielder Corey Wasylow led the Trojan offense with a 3-3 day at the plate and two stolen bases. Jon Livolsi also added a pair of hits and went 2-3 with a double and ended up scoring on a Wasylow basehit in the third that made it 2-0.
Barnstable never truly threatened to score in this affair, having a runner on second base just twice.
Nevertheless, Barnstable head coach Ryan Kinski was buoyed by his young pitcher’s performance.
“Floren pitched great today,” Kinski said.
It was Floren’s first-ever varsity complete game pitched.
Barnstable’s hits came off the bats of first baseman Jack Kennedy in the top of the seventh, Lukas Atsalis in the top of the fifth and Joel Carlson, also in the fifth frame.
Barnstable hopes to find an answer when it returns to action today against Duxbury at 4:30 pm at home.
— Sean Walsh is the sports editor for www.capecod.com. His email is [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @coachwalshccbm
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