BY MATT STOUT

There are two things the Pelham baseball team is doing more than any other team in Class I. One is actually playing games. The other is winning them.

Despite watching its comeback attempt fall short in a 4-3 loss to Milford on Monday, April 30, the Pythons owned a 6-2 record entering a date at Laconia on Wednesday, May 2.

Its eight games played and six wins are the highest totals of any team in the league, and the Milford loss – a game in which Ryan Robidoux homered in the seventh – followed a double-header sweep of Kennett on Sunday, April 29.

On Monday, James Mastone settled down after allowing four runs – two earned – in the first two innings to strike out five in a complete-game effort. But neither his 2-for-3, two-run effort or Robidoux’s heroics in the top of the final inning were enough to carry Pelham to its fifth straight win.

A day earlier, Pelham got more than enough, however, overcoming an 8-4 deficit in game one against Kennett for a 9-8 win before whipping the visitors, 11-1, in the back end of the doubleheader at Pelham High.

In the first contest, Mostone led the way, going 3-for-3 with three RBI, but he was not alone. Mark Catalano went 2-for-4 with three runs scored, Matt Levine drove in two runs in a 2-for-4 day, and Jamie Vaiknoras scored twice from the leadoff spot.

Grant Hebert went the distance, striking out five and giving up five earned runs, all coming in the first two innings.

In the second game, Levine walked none and struck out five in four innings of one-hit ball. Dan Lamont pitched a scoreless fifth in a mercy rule-shortened game. Levine also scored twice and drove in two while Ricky Costa, Hebert, Lamont, Catalano and Steve Rogers all recorded an RBI. Mastone, Catalano and Costa each scored twice as well.

Pelham’s next scheduled game is Friday, May 4, at St. Thomas Aquinas.