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The Swampbats have a fourteen game stretch with no breaks and they started it off with a loss.

With a strong start, the Mystic Schooners were able to coast to a victory behind ace Trey Mcloughlin. They avenge their 4-3 loss at Alumni just under two weeks ago.

McLoughlin, who had seven strikeouts, took the NECBL strikeout lead from Luke Albright with 38.

David Johnson, making his first start in under two weeks, started strong but left the game in frustration as he gave up eight runs, seven of them earned over 4 and 2/3 innings of work.

Keene looked primed to strike again in the first inning but with runners on first and second and one out, Randall Bednar grounded into a 5-4-3 double play, foiling the opportunity.

Johnson would start his night off by retiring the first two batters. However, after giving up two consecutive walks to Terry Bowens and Matthew Toke, Jerome Huntzinger then got an infield single with a lucky bounce off the third-base bag to load the bases.

Vincent Martin, Mystic’s right fielder, then hit a bases-clearing double down the left-field foul line and putting Mystic up 3-0. Tommy Joseph, playing left, nearly had the ball but it tipped off his glove, rolling into foul territory.

Martin struck again in the third when he ripped a single into left-center, scoring Matthew Toke and Huntzinger.

With Keene down 5-0, David Bedgood then bobbled a ground ball at second, scoring Martin and moving Keene’s deficit to six.

If Schooner starter Trey McLoughlin has someone to thank, it would be Vincent Martin. Martin, who was 2 for 3 with a walk, accounted for six of Mystic’s eleven runs, knocking in five and himself being the sixth. 

Keene would not leave without a fight as a two-RBI double down the right-field line scored Seth Caddell and Mitch Golden. After MacNeil scored on a David Bedgood single to right, the men in purple had cut their deficit in half, only down 6-3.

The Schooners then struck back with two the following half inning to let it be known they were not losing the game.

With David Johnson running on fumes, Isaiah Byars hit a two-RBI single to left, putting Mystic up 8-3 and officially ending Johnson’s night.

Crisitian Sanchez came in as relief and though he got out of the fifth, he walked two and hit Terry Bowens to load the bases with no one out in the bottom of the sixth.

Following a Jerome Huntzinger sac fly that scored David Beam, Terry Bowens scored on a passed ball and then another Isaiah Byars single to left scored Matthew Toke.

Down by eight, Will Wagner doubled to right-center in the eighth and then scored on a Ryan Hogan fielder’s choice.

With Mystic up 11-4, newly acquired pitcher Jordan Warrick closed the door on the final six outs of the Swampbats, ending Keene’s longest win streak of the season and dropping them to 14-8 on the season.

With their final game at Recreation field tomorrow night, Keene will need Zach Messinger to shut down a potent Vermont lineup for the second time this season to get back in the win column.