TROY, N.Y. — The Bates College men’s track and field team won its third consecutive ECAC Division III championship on Friday.

Junior David Pless maintained an unblemished record, and junior David Hardison won the decathlon.

Bates scored 61 points, 12 more than runner-up Rowan.

Pless won the shot put with a season-best mark of 17.80 meters, outdistancing the runner-up by 1.06 meters. Pless made it a clean sweep with a 51.26-meter effort in the discus throw, and 55.90 meters in the hammer throw.

Hardison won the ECAC title in the decathlon with a career-best 6,235 points, moving to third place on the Bates’ all-time list.

Entering the second day in third place, Hardison was first in the field in the first event of the day, the 110-meter hurdles. He finished up by outscoring the entire field in the javelin throw with 47.63 meters, and then taking second in the 1,500 event.

Baseball

Stony Brook sweeps Maine

ORONO — Stony Brook University swept a doubleheader from the University of Maine, 5-1 and 5-4, in America East baseball action Friday.

In the first game, Tanner Nivins tripled in a pair of runs in the top of the seventh to extend the Seawolves’ (1-11) lead to 5-0.

The Black Bears (26-24) got on the board in the bottom of the frame on a sacrifice fly from Alex Calbick for all of the scoring they would experience in the opener.

Maine kept pulling ahead in the second game, only to succumb to Stony Brook’s perseverance.

Stony Brook got a run back in the top of the seventh when Steven Goldstein homered to lead off the frame. The Seawolves tookt he lead in the top of the eighth with a pair of runs.

Maine threatened in the bottom of the eighth, but was unable to push across the tying run.

Women’s track

Kirkland earns honors

TROY, N.Y. — A pair of top-six performances fueled the Bates women’s track and field team on the final day of the ECAC Division III Outdoor Championships on Friday.

The Bobcats scored 12 team points, tying with Rochester Insitute of Technology for 25th place among 55 scoring teams.

Senior Juliana Kirkland of Greene finished eighth in the hammer throw, to earn All-ECAC honors and score a team point for Bates, with a career-best mark of 46.95 meters, lifting her into fifth place on Bates’ all-time performance list.

Senior Tina Tobin scored four of Bates’ points by placing fifth out of 18 competitors in the 400-meter hurdles, in 1:03.08.