WAREHAM, Mass. — It was a low-scoring, back-and-forth affair Friday night as the Braves travelled to Spillane Field to take on the Wareham Gatemen for the third time in 2025.
The Braves came out victorious in the home-and-home series over the Fourth of July weekend, in a two-game slate that featured the first one ending early due to thunderstorms and the second one at one point not being played with the power potentially not coming on in Wareham.
This time around, the weather and power cooperated on a chilly evening in Wareham, but the Braves didn’t get the result they wanted as they fell to Wareham for the first time this year in a 5-4 loss.
Folger Boaz (North Carolina) started his second straight away game against the Gatemen, coming off an outing on the Fourth of July where he went 3 ⅔ innings and gave up one run.
He doubled his allowed run total in the first inning this time around, as Chris McHugh (NC State) and Levi Clark (Tennessee) started the momentum by each walking. Hunter Carns (Florida State) got it going with a RBI sacrifice fly. Colby Turner (Michigan) then reached on a fielder's choice, where he then advanced to third following a steal and an infield single from Brayden Randle.
Caden McDonald (Florida) then ripped a one-base knock to make the score 2-0.
The Braves then scored the next time at the plate, as Kuhio Aloy (Arkansas) reached on a double then scored on an RBI single from Jon LeGrande (St. John’s) to have the scoreboard read 2-1, but Wareham tacked on another in the third as Turner scored on a wild pitch from Boaz after reaching via a hit-by-pitch and a Randle double down the right field line.
Bourne answered right back in the fourth, as Aloy knocked his second home run of the season on a shot to left-center field to cut the deficit to 3-2.
The score then became tied 3-3 in the seventh, as the bases went fully juiced for Ryan Cooney (Oregon), who scored Braden Holcomb (Vanderbilt) to even things up on a sacrifice fly.
Wareham took the lead right back in the bottom of the frame, as Clark singled, Carbs doubled, and then Clark scored on a wild pitch by Dominic Mauro (Cincinnati). An RBI single from McDonald made it a 5-3 game.
Kade Lewis (Wake Forest) reached third in the ninth and scored on an RBI single from Cooney. The Gatemen escaped unharmed with a 5-4 win.
Bourne Braves Player of the Game
Aloy went 2-for-4 with his second home run of the year as well as notching two runs.
Key moment
The two runs in the seventh for the Gatemen were the difference, taking the 5-3 lead late and not giving it up after stellar pitching to close it out.
A look ahead
Bourne (9-11-1, 19 points ) will return to Doran Park on Saturday to face the Cotuit Kettleers (8-12-1, 17 points). The last time the two teams met was at Lowell Park, where Cotuit came out victorious, 6-4, in eight innings.
First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
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