Mt. Ararat baseball wakes up against Edward Little after weather delay

[ **Our Communities. Our Teams. Our Future. **We’re proud to make high school sports coverage free for everyone, because these moments matter. At Maine State Credit Union, we’re here for the people and places that make Maine strong. Let’s go! Learn more at **[mainestatecu.org](http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=7274124606&iu=/6119)**.   Mt. Ararat senior pitcher Eligh Imrie delivers a pitch during the Eagles’ 4-1 win over Edward Little in a Class A North quarterfinal on Thursday in Brunswick. (Cooper Sullivan/Staff Photographer) View 7 photos BRUNSWICK — When thunder and lightning forced the Mt. Ararat and Edward Little baseball teams to pause their Class A North quarterfinal Thursday at Bowdoin College with the score tied 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning, some players grabbed their phones before they trekked from Pickard Diamond to Farley Fieldhouse. Mt. Ararat starting pitcher Eligh Imrie was not one of them. “I don’t need it,” said the St. Joseph’s College commit. “Just want to lock in, you know?” Imrie stayed loose with some band work and light throwing, and despite an hour in between his trips to the mound, it looked as if the senior never even left the rubber. Imrie retired six of the next seven batters, including three strikeouts, and the second-seeded Eagles finally turned base runners into runs after the break to beat the seventh-seeded Red Eddies, 4-1. “I was feeling amazing …” Imrie said after his seven-strikeout, one-hit outing. “Everything was working. Mostly my fastball, though.” Advertisement Mt. Ararat (14-3) will play No. 3 Bangor (14-3) at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Mt. Ararat beat the Rams on April 29, and also in [last year’s regional final](https://www.pressherald.com/2025/06/17/mt-ararat-beats-bangor-for-a-north-title/). HOW IT HAPPENED • The game was scoreless through three innings, and both teams were protecting the plate in different ways. Imrie and the Eagles were perfect defensively, fielding well-hit grounders and tracking down fly balls, while Max Kimble and the Red Eddies kept escaping trouble with timely outs and quick throws from the outfield to prevent runners from tagging up. • Mt. Ararat scored with two out in the fourth inning a throwing error allowed Caiden Chase to cross home plate. EL tied it in the fifth when Dom Dumais smacked a double deep down the left-field line, took third on a sacrifice and had enough time to score while a rundown between first and second base occurred a couple at-bats later. • When the fifth-inning weather delay occurred, Mt. Ararat had one out and the bases loaded. After play resumed 47 minutes later, Kimble induced back-to-back outs before reaching his pitch count. Edward Little forced 12 stranded base runners. “I think it was just that resiliency and mental toughness piece of, ‘OK, this is where we’re at now, we just go make a play,'” said EL coach Dave Jordan. “… It wasn’t the result that we wanted, but to see them continuously get out of jams and stuff like that was fantastic.” • Mt. Ararat coach Brett Chase was not happy when the delay was called because he thought momentum was shifting his team’s way. But the Eagles loaded the bases again with one out in the sixth, and Jesse Bowker and Tyler Thibeault each drove in a run with a grounder between first and second, and Brady Hiltz scored the final run on a balk. “Our approach at the plate was OK,” Chase said. “We talked about hitting the ball the other way, which we didn’t do until the last inning, so we didn’t do a real good job from that end, but again, (Kimble) was great, and we just couldn’t get the big hit when we needed it early on.” STATISTICAL LEADERS Edward Little: Max Kimble (five innings, five hits, zero earned runs, four strikeouts, two walks), Dom Dumais (double, run; one inning pitched, four hits, three earned runs) Mt. Ararat: Eligh Imrie (seven innings pitched, one hit, one earned run, seven strikeouts, two walks), Daniel Beal (3 for 4, run), Will Davis (3 for 4, run), Jesse Bowker (2 for 4, run, RBI) Copy the Story Link Tagged: [edward little red eddies](https://www.pressherald.com/tag/edward-little-red-eddies/), [mt ararat eagles](https://www.pressherald.com/tag/mt-ararat-eagles/), [times record sports](https://www.pressherald.com/tag/times-record-sports/) [](https://www.pressherald.com/author/cooper-sullivan) [Cooper SullivanStaff Writer](https://www.pressherald.com/author/cooper-sullivan) Cooper Sullivan covers high school and collegiate sports in Brunswick and the surrounding communities. He is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he studied at Wake Forest University ('24) and held. [More by Cooper Sullivan](https://www.pressherald.com/author/cooper-sullivan)