WATERVILLE, Maine -- Bates junior shortstop Kevin Lucey hit a home run, and junior Bryan Gotti and first-year Noah Jankowski also drove in runs, as the Bobcats fell 12-4 in a nine-inning game at Colby on Sunday afternoon.

Bates (1-5) and Colby (10-10) will play another home-and-home set next weekend, with Colby hosting Bates on Saturday at 1pm and Bates hosting Colby Sunday at 1pm. Colby won 9-4 yesterday at Bates.

The Mules scored a pair of unearned runs off of Bates junior starting pitcher Ian Tolis (Waltham, Mass.) in the second inning. Tolis struck out the first two batters of the inning, then surrendered a walk to Ryan Hecht. Hecht stole second base and scored when Marcus Forrester reached on an error. Forrester stole both second and third bases before coming home on Colby's first hit of the game, a single by Brady O'Brien.

Lucey (Topsfield, Mass.) hit his second career home run and his first in this abbreviated season, off of Mules starter Nicholas Thompson to cut Colby's lead in half. But Colby struck for six runs in the fourth inning, on four hits, three walks and an error, to open up an 8-1 lead.

Bates got a run back in the fifth as sophomore Henry Jamieson (St. Simons Island, Ga.) led off with a single, and the Bobcats loaded the bases as junior Antonio Jareno (Marietta, Ga.) reached on an error and Lucey walked. Jankowski (Methuen, Mass.) delivered an RBI single to score Jamieson. Colby reliever Matthew Scibilio induced a double play to hold off any further damage by the Bobcats.

Colby added four runs to its lead on six hits in the seventh inning, putting Bates at a 12-2 disadvantage.

Bates got two runs closer in the eighth inning. Sophomore Tyler Attal (Los Angeles, Calif.) reached on an error and senior Colin Coyne (Falmouth, Maine) doubled to push him to third base. Senior Christian Beal (Flossmoor, Ill.) reached on an error as Attal scored, and Gotti (Westwood, Mass.) delivered a pinch single to left field to score Coyne.

Tolis (0-2) took the loss while Scibilio earned the win for Colby with 2.2 shutout innings of relief. 

Bates first-year righthander Luke Linnehan (Hingham, Mass.) blanked the Mules over the eighth and ninth innings, lowering his earned-run average to 2.25 over three relief appearances and 8.0 innings.