Bangor ends Mt. Ararat's postseason run with third-inning surge
Bangor's five-run third inning ended Mt. Ararat's season in Topsham, and Jake Morrell's two-run single was not enough to erase the damage.
Mt. Ararat’s season ended at home in Topsham when Bangor broke the game open with a five-run third inning and held on for a 5-2 win in the Class A North semifinals. The loss sent the Eagles out of the postseason one step short of the regional final, while Bangor moved on to its sixth straight Class A North final.
The turning point came in a third inning that changed the tone and the scoreboard all at once. Bangor started the rally with Ethan Sproul’s grounder to shortstop that drove in the first run, then Jacoby Harvey followed with an RBI single down the left-field line. Kyle Johnson delivered the blow that swung the game for good, launching a three-run homer to left center that put Bangor in command.
Mt. Ararat answered in the fourth, and for a moment the Eagles had a foothold again. Jake Morrell singled to shallow center to bring in both of Mt. Ararat’s runs, trimming the deficit and giving the home side a chance to settle the game down. But Bangor pitcher Lucas Rutherford and the Rams’ defense kept the pressure on from there, and Mt. Ararat could not turn that response into a sustained rally.
The Eagles’ best chance to extend the game came late, when they loaded the bases in the seventh but came away empty. That sequence summed up the final innings: Mt. Ararat put runners in scoring position and kept reaching, but Bangor made the pitches and the plays needed to protect the lead. The margin stayed at three runs, even as the Eagles tried to chip away.
For Mt. Ararat, the loss closed a postseason run that included a 4-1 quarterfinal win over Edward Little and a deep push into the North bracket. To get back to this stage next year, the Eagles will have to avoid the kind of one-inning collapse that decided Saturday’s game and find more consistent hitting when the pressure rises. Bangor matched them early, then separated with timely contact and a power swing, and that difference ended Mt. Ararat’s season in front of a Topsham crowd that had hoped for one more home win.
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