The Husson Eagles baseball season is down to the Wire. The Eagles are on the outside looking in towards the North Atlantic Conference playoffs and are barely making up any ground. Today (4/16) the Eagles split with conference rival U. Maine Farmington at the Winkin Complex at Husson. The Eagles won game 1 which started at noon by a final score of 2-1 and dropped the 2nd game 2-0 at the hands of Beavers' pitcher Dan Hemdal.

The Eagles were led by pitcher Keith Nason giving up only the one run on 4 hits in game one and hopes were high for game two. Hemdal managed a 2 hitter in 6 and 1/3 innings in the 2nd for the Beavers who improved to just 3-9 on the season as they do not travel to Florida or Arizona like most teams do to begin the season.

The Eagles will host a double header with Becker College of Massachusetts on Saturday with two crucial conference winds at stake. The Eagles will then turn around and play snow-buried U. Maine Presque Isle at home on Sunday for two games.

If the Eagles can take the two games from the Becker Hawks and take both from Presque Isle as confidence boosters for the playoffs (granted they get there) the Eagles would have themselves looking and feeling very good for a post-season push.

Reid Durost