By Randy Whitehouse,Staff Writer

AUBURN – Lewiston was less than 24 hours removed from a 13-8 win and Edward Little was only a day removed from a 3-2 loss when the two rivals hooked up Tuesday at Pettengill Park.

In baseball, though, momentum lasts only as long as the next day’s starting pitcher.

Lewiston pitchers yielded five balks, four walks, three hit batsmen and 10 runs in the first three innings. EL junior lefty Derek Doucette, meanwhile, allowed just two hits to a Blue Devil lineup that had rapped 16 the day before, and pitched the Red Eddies to a 10-1 win

“He came on as a sophomore last year and we told him You’re going to have some really good days and some bad ones, probably more bad than good, with the hope that by the time you’re a junior, you’re going to be looking really good,” EL coach Scott Annear said of Doucette. “He’s started the year off working hard and really focusing in. Now we have a nice lefty who’s able to go out there and throw strikes.”

Doucette fanned nine, walked two and hit two in six innings of work. Adam Redmun, another southpaw, worked a hitless seventh in relief.

“I think we probably hit four balls hard all day – three on a line to right field, one that (Brian Erickson) made a really nice play on and two that were right at him. The other one hit the pitcher and got knocked down and the kid got thrown out at first base. We didn’t get what we got yesterday,” Lewiston coach Don King said.

The Eddies (3-2) scored three runs on just one hit in each of the first two innings. Three walks, a wild pitch and two balks, plus an RBI double by Justin Ciszewski, chased Lewiston starter Ryan Dube with two outs in the first. Chad Guimond came on in relief and avoided further damage on a terrific diving catch in left-center by Andrew Boulanger.

“We didn’t get a good start off the hill and it kind of set the tone for the whole game,” said King, whose Blue Devils dropped to 1-4.

Guimond didn’t fare much better in the second inning, surrendering a bunt single to Robie Leighton (two hits), who stole second and then scored on an error by the first baseman to make it 4-0. Another walk and a balk led to Chad Merrill (two runs) and Kevin Pontbriand scoring on a ground out by Erickson (two RBIs) and a short sacrifice fly by Ciszewski that shortstop Eric Waite did a nice job on just to keep it from falling in for a hit.

The Eddies added four more in the third on hits by Leighton, Erickson and David Lutz, as well as a pair of hit batsmen, an error and another balk. Doucette, meanwhile, was cruising, retiring 10 in a row before an error at third and a balk of his own led to an RBI single by Mike Langlais in the fourth for Lewiston’s lone run.

“I was hitting my spots and working with (catcher) Matty Nadeau,” Doucette said. “My curve ball wasn’t working, but I threw my fastball and they just couldn’t hit it.”