BEL AIR, Md. - Sophomore righthander Mike Torres pitched a complete game shutout for the Harford baseball team (5-3) in the opening game of a doubleheader split with Niagara (3-3) on Tuesday. The Fighting Owls won the opener, 5-0, before falling in the nightcap, 9-6.

Harford 5, Niagara 0
Torres scattered six hits while striking out two in seven innings of work. He started the game allowing three-straight singles to load the bases, but a line-drive double play by first baseman Nick Freeberger gave Torres some breathing room, as the final batter of the frame flew out to right.

Torres then settled into a groove, throwing back-to-back 1-2-3 innings and holding the Thunderwolves hitless until the fifth inning. He worked out of another bases-loaded jam in that frame and allowed one hit in the six before a routine seventh.

Offensively, Harford scratched a run home in the first on a Norm Donkin single and then put together four straight hits in the second for a 5-0 lead. Jon McAllister was the lone Fighting Owl with two hits. He scored twice and knocked in another.

Niagara 9, Harford 6
The Thunderwoves scored early and often in the second game of the day, earning the victory, 9-6. Niagara scored twice in the second, third and fifth innings and put the game away with a three-spot in the sixth.

Leading 4-2 in the fifth, shortstop Kyle Craig produced a two-out seeing-eye single up the middle that scored two. Niagara scored three times on three hits in the sixth to take a 9-2 lead.

Harford would fight back with a two-run home run by Rob Koski, his second of the season, in the sixth and a pair of runs in the seventh with no outs, but could get no further.

Kyle Hurley fell to 1-1, allowing six runs, four earned, on eight hits in 4.2 innings. Koski and Donkin both had a pair of hits for Harford, while Koski knocked in three and Donkin two.

The Fighting Owls face Delaware County on Wednesday at 3 p.m.