BRIDGEWATER, Mass. – The Bridgewater State University baseball team split a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) with host Framingham State University on Friday afternoon at the New England Baseball Complex in Northborough. The visiting Bears won the opener, 2-1, while the Rams earned the split with a 4-1 victory in game two.

The Bears see their record go to 2-9 on the season and 1-3 in the MASCAC, while the Rams now stand at 5-5 overall and 1-3 in conference play.

Game One

David Kerns (East Cambridge, Mass.) tossed a complete game three-hitter to lead Bridgewater State to a 2-1 victory in game one of the doubleheader. Kerns (1-3) allowed just one earned run, walked one and fanned a season-high eight batters. He retired the final 12 batters he faced including six by strikeout.

The Bears, who finished with four hits in the contest, pushed across both of their runs in the top of the first inning. Luke Tamulevich (Whitman, Mass.) reached on an error to lead off the game, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch when Jay Wladkowski (Norwood, Mass.) walked, and scored on a passed ball. After a sacrifice bunt, Joey Molis (Cumberland, R.I.) ripped an RBI single into centerfield to plate Wladkowski with the second run of the frame.

The Rams got a run back in the bottom of the third on back-to-back doubles by Mike Ryan (Marlborough, Mass.) and Kyle Bolger (North Attleboro, Mass.).

The 2-1 score would hold up the rest of the way.

Anthony Panza (Watertown, Mass.) tossed five solid innings in the setback for the Rams. Panza (2-1) allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits with a pair of walks and three strikeouts. Jack DeCoste (East Sandwich, Mass.) retired five of the seven batters he faced in two scoreless innings of relief.

Game Two

Scott Nosky (Dedham, Mass.) allowed just one unearned run in the complete effort to lift the Rams to a 4-1 victory in game two and a split of the twinbill. Nosky (2-1) scattered five hits, did not issue a walk and fanned four.

And RBI double by Ryan Boyle (Arlington, Mass.) in the bottom of the third and an RBI double off the bat of Anthony Herman (Stratford, Conn.) in the fourth staked Framingham State to a 2-0 lead.

The Bears cut the deficit in half with a run in the top of the fifth on a bases loaded RBI single by Tamulevich. A base running mistake on the play, however, would prove costly as Nosky avoided any further damage in the frame.

A clutch two-out, two-run single by Robert Johnston (Watertown, Conn,) in the bottom of the sixth extended the Framingham lead to 4-1.

Colin Josselyn (Hanson, Mass.) went the distance on the mound in the setback for Bridgewater State. Josselyn (1-1) gave up four runs on eight hits over six innings with a walk and two strikeouts.

Boyle (2-3, 2B, RBI), Johnston (2-3, R, 2RBI) and Andrew Caulfield (Malden, Mass.) notched two hits apiece to pace the Rams' eight-hit attack. Caulfield went 2-for-3 and scored a run.

Tamulevich went 2-for-4 with a double and RBI to pace the BSU offense.

Up Next: The two teams will meet again tomorrow afternoon in a non-conference doubleheader at Bridgewater State. Game one of the twinbill is slated to get underway at noon.