LISBON FALLS – The lesser of two evils prevailed in a Mountain Valley Conference baseball showdown Monday.

Livermore Falls served up a silver platter of walks by the baker’s dozen and lived to tell about it, in part because Lisbon countered with eight errors.

The Andies also pounded out 11 hits and squeezed six strikeouts out of sophomore closer Willie Brown to nail down an 8-3 road victory.

“Don’t tell me that. We walked 13 batters today?” asked an incredulous and relieved Livermore Falls coach Brian Dube. “That’s why we lost to Dirigo. The only time we have problems is when we walk people.”

For all its issues framing the ball inside that elusive, invisible rectangle, Livermore Falls (9-2) landed the outs that mattered most.

Starting hurler Jake Marceau, middle reliever Zach Keene and Brown limited Lisbon to one hit after the first inning. The Greyhounds (7-3) left the bases loaded in the third, fourth and fifth.

Brown entered the game and made Kyle Neagle admire strike three for the final out in the fifth. After two quick outs in the seventh, he served up free passes to Nick Jones and Marcus Bubar before fanning Neagle again, swinging, to end it.

“I was pretty nervous about it,” Brown said of his sudden transition from catcher to fireman while nursing a 5-3 lead in the fifth. “I might have come in before with runners on first and second, but not bases loaded, two outs and one of their best hitters up there.”

The second encounter with Neagle was slightly less stressful thanks to a three-run top of the seventh. Livermore Falls maximized consecutive singles by Keene, Josh Tainter and Ryan Jackson, a sacrifice fly from Brown and Lisbon’s last two errors of the afternoon.

Tainter was 3-for-4 for the Andies.

“This team wanted a chance to repeat (as MVC champions). Maybe now that that’s out of the way these guys can just relax and play the game,” said Lisbon coach Randy Ridley. “When this team is relaxed and just goes out and plays, they’re excellent.”

Both teams scored twice in a first inning that featured four total errors. Lisbon landed a 3-2 lead in the third on a pair of walks, a groundout and Andy Ouellette’s sacrifice fly.

Fielding gems by Frank Angelico at first base and Mike Unterkoefler at third seemed to have Lisbon in a groove to start the fourth. Chandler White’s triple and Caleb Baron’s single tied the game, however, and Baron scored the eventual winning run when Lisbon’s outfield booted another base hit by Kevin Gats.

“Early on we hit some line drives and they made some plays, and I told them not to get discouraged because they’d start to drop,” Dube said. “Our goal was to add on. We didn’t want to put too much pressure on our pitchers.”