BEL AIR, Md. - Harford earned a split with CCBC-Catonsville, blanking the Cardinals in game one before falling by five runs in game two.
The Fighting Owls sit at 17-3 on the year.
Game 1 (Harford 8, Catonsville 0)
Braedon Karpathios (2-0),
Austin Biddle, and
Joe Clancy combined to shutout Catonsville in the opener. Karpathios went four innings and struck out five while allowing just three hits. Biddle surrendered a quartet of hits but kept the Cardinals scoreless over two frames. Clancy kept a scoreless frame in the seventh to end the contest.
Blake Mayberry and
Andrew Sicinski led Harford at the dish with three hits each.
Quinn Madden homered as part of a two-hit effort, while Karpathios and
Joe Quelch also tallied two hits each.
Game 2 (Catonsville 14, Harford 9)
Catonsville plated six runs in the first two innings and eight in the final two, which proved to be enough to top the Fighting Owls in the second game.
Down 6-2 after the second, Harford fought back and tied the game on
John McNamee's three-run blast and a sacrifice fly by
Joe Quelch. After both teams went silent in the fifth, Harford were outscored 8-3 in the final two frames.
Quelch and
Ehi Okojie tallied two hits each, while five other harford battters earned one.
Frank Siano (1-1) was stuck with the loss.
Up Next
Harford travels to Hagerstown for two important games on Saturday, March 26 beginning at Noon.
