By Jim Fenton

BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- The Bridgewater State University baseball team was limited to six hits in a 5-1 loss to Salem State University Saturday afternoon.

The second game of a scheduled Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at Alumni Park was postponed due to rain. The make-up date and time for game two has yet to be decided. 

BSU is now 9-8, including 3-2 in the MASCAC, while Salem State is 10-7, including 3-2 in the conference.

Winning pitcher Brock Pare (Lowell, Mass.) struck out seven and allowed just four hits in his six innings to improve to 2-2 while Jake Boucher (Wallingford, Conn.) pitched the final inning.

The Vikings took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first as Nolan Currier (Maynard, Mass.) delivered an RBI single to left after Boucher drew a two-out walk and advanced on a single by Owen Duggan (Billerica, Mass.).

BSU tied the game in the second inning when Steven Simon (Hanover, Mass.) led off with a double to left field and scored on an outfield error following a single to left by Mathew Pigeon (Canton, Mass.).

Salem State moved in front, 4-1, with a three-run fifth inning.

Mark Smith (East Haven, Conn.) and Boucher reached on infield hits and Duggan drove in a run with a single to right. Currier singled to right for a run and Aidan Lynch (North Andover, Mass.) added an RBI hit up the middle.

Duggan and Currier were both 2-for-4 with two RBI.

Pigeon, who extended his hitting streak to ten games, was the lone BSU player with two hits. The Bears did not have a base runner in the first, third and fourth innings.

They had three hits in the second inning, a two-out single by Joe Frechette (Plymouth, Mass.) in the fifth and singles by Pigeon and Cam James (Ipswich, Mass.) in the seventh.

Losing pitcher Trey Yesu (Monson, Mass.) fell to 2-2, striking out four in 4 1-3 innings.

The Bears are now 20-11 against Salem State at Alumni Park, which opened in 1996.

BSU has non-conference games on Monday at Curry College starting at 3 p.m. and Tuesday at home against Dean College at 3:30 p.m.

Salem State travels to MIT on Monday for a 3:30 p.m. non-conference matchup.