ORONO, Maine - Binghamton baseball (5-5, 5-5 America East) collected 18 hits and recorded 15 scoreless innings in a doubleheader sweep over host Maine (8-7, 3-4 AE) Saturday afternoon at Mahaney Diamond. Binghamton won the opener 5-0 and the nightcap 3-2 in 10 innings.

Senior catcher TJ Wegmann snapped a 2-2 tie with the game-winning hit in Game 2. He deposited a two-out, two-strike pitch into center field for an RBI single in the top of the 10th inning. Sophomore reliever Kyle Eskildsen (W, 1-0) then worked around a leadoff baserunner in the bottom of the frame, using a strikeout and a fly to center to lock down the extra-inning win. 

Eskildsen pitched the final 4.0 innings and allowed just two hits and a run with four strikeouts. He followed junior starter Josh Kopcza, who scattered seven hits and one run in 6.0 strong innings. Kopcza struck out four and lowered his season ERA to 1.64. 

The Bearcats put lead runners on in five of the last six innings but couldn't convert until first baseman Kevin Gsell reached in the 10th on an outfield error. Third baseman Justin Drpich moved him over with a sacrifice bunt and left fielder Tommy Reifer advanced him to third with a groundout, setting up Wegmann's go-ahead hit. 

The defense made two outstanding plays in the sixth inning to preserve BU's 2-1 lead. With one out, Maine singled to left center but in an attempt to stretch it into a double, the runner was thrown out on a relay from Reifler to shortstop Jake Evans to second baseman Alex Baratta. Then after a two-out double, Maine rapped a single to right and attempted to score the tying run. But right fielder Daniel Franchi fired home to Wegmann in plenty of time to tag out the runner and end the inning. 

Maine tied the game on a flare double and single in the eighth after BU used a two-run third inning to take the lead. 

Baratta went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Reifler also had two hits. 

In the opener, junior Jack Collins was in full command, pitching a complete-game, three-hit shutout. Collins (2-0) struck out seven and lowered his season ERA to 0.53.

The Bearcats stretched a 1-0 lead with four runs over the final two innings of the seven-inning game. 

In the sixth inning, a leadoff walk, two bunt singles and another Black Bears error gave BU its second run and another run scored on a wild pitch, making it 3-0. Gsell finished off the scoring with a 2-run single in the top of the seventh after singles by Franchi and center fielder Shane Marshall set the table. 

Drpich and Evans each went 2-for-4 and Marshall went 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Baratta had the RBI on a groundout in the first inning. 

Binghamton returns home to host Albany in a four-game set next weekend at Rumbletown Stadium.