Baseball
MAINE vs. BOSTON COLLEGE
Time, site: 4 p.m. Tuesday, Pellagrini Diamond, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Records: Maine 18-31, Boston College 29-18
Series, last meeting: Maine leads 24-13, BC 12-0 on 5/12/15
Key players: Maine — 3B Danny Casals (.305, 3 home runs, 15 runs batted in, 12 stolen bases), LF Colin Ridley (.299-6-36), SS Jeremy Pena (.278-1-14, 10 SB), RF Tyler Schwanz (.274-5-23, 7 SB), 1B Brendan Geary (.260-2-15, 7 SB); Boston College — CF Michael Strem (.298-1-30), C Nick Sciortino (.283-2-15), SS Johnny Adams (.276-1-21), RF Logan Hoggarth (.276-2-20, 10 SB), 3B Joe Cronin (.275-3-30, 11 SB)
Possible pitching matchup: Maine — LH Connor Johnson (3-3, 3.73 earned run average, 31 strikeouts); BC — LH Jesse Adams (5-4, 4.42, 32 K)
Game notes: The Black Bears open what will be a four-game road trip with a nonconference contest against the Eagles. UMaine dropped two of three America East weekend games to Stony Brook and sits in sixth place, 9½ games behind first-place Binghamton. Boston College of the Atlantic Coast Conference, is seventh (last) in the Atlantic Division heading into a season-ending series at Georgia Tech that begins Thursday. The Black Bears will try to distribute the innings among a handful of pitchers as they start lining up the staff for next week’s America East tournament at Lowell, Massachusetts. The Eagles have won four in a row and eight of their last nine, topping Niagara 9-3 on Sunday. UMaine is batting only .249 as a team and has only one hitter (Casals) over .300. BC has a .261 team batting average. The Eagles pitching staff has put together a 3.59 ERA, holding opponents to a .232 batting mark.