SALEM, Va. – The Frostburg State baseball team earned a 3-0 shutout victory over Roanoke in the first game of FSU’s season-opening twinbill with the Maroons, Friday. The Bobcats lost the second game 1-0.

Box Scores -  Game 1 I Game  2

The Bobcats (1-1) plated solo runs in the first, fifth and seventh innings to slowly distance themselves from the host Maroons (2-3). Junior starting pitcher Austin Poretz threw all 7.0 innings and struckout four, while scattering just three hits for the victory.

Junior leadoff hitter Kevin Kean reached on an error in the top of the first and later scored what would prove to be the game winner when junior Dylan Shupe singled him home.

Kean, who finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, doubled to center field in the fifth inning that plated senior Garrett Price for the Bobcats’ second run. In the seventh, Frostburg added an insurance run when Kean doubled to right and scored when the next batter, senior Pat Sapp, doubled to left.

In the second contest, Roanoke squeaked out a 1-0 victory in cold and rainy conditions. The Maroons scored in the bottom of the sixth on a single to center field.

Junior Curtis Randall endured the loss allowing the game’s only run in just one inning of work. Senior starter Doug Politz tossed 5.0 innings and allowed just three hits, but didn’t factor in the decision.

Junior Danny Morris had the only hit for the Bobcats as the hosts outhit FSU 5-1 in the second game.

Frostburg State will face Roanoke in a single nine-inning contest tomorrow at noon.