BANGOR — The errors were the difference.

The Coastal All-stars of the Blue Hill-Deer Isle area lost two of three games to Scarborough in their bid for a Senior League state title at Mansfield Stadium last weekend.

In both losses, said Coastal coach Will Morey, “we had four errors and they had none.”

Morey said that while the team practiced hard for much of that time, there were no opponents available to face in real game situations.

That made a big difference in the tournament. “We looked like a team that had had a three-week layoff,” he said.

Coastal dropped the opening game on Friday as Scarborough rolled to an 8-1 win behind the pitching of Ryan Collins, who scattered seven hits over six innings.

Finn McMahon-Allwine doubled and six other Coastal players singled in that game, said Morey.

But on Saturday, Coastal rebounded to scratch out a 5-4 win in eight innings and force a second and deciding game.

Scarborough errors — three of them — contributed to a sixth inning rally in which Coastal snapped a 2-2 tie with two runs.

But Scarborough scored once in the bottom of the sixth and tied the game on a bizarre play in the bottom of the seventh.

With two outs and a 3-2 count on Scarborough batter Sean Getchell swung and missed on a pitch from Coastal reliever Mariner Cheney for what would have been a game-ending out.

But the low curve ball .struck the plate, then bounced up and off the mask of catcher Connor Morey and that enabled Scarborough’s Juan German to score from third with the tying run.

Coastal scored the game-winner in the top of the eighth on singles by Cooper Smallidge and Tyler Robbins and a Scarborough throwing error that allowed Smallidge to score.

Scarborough went on to claim the rubber game — and the state title — with an 8-6 win in the nightcap, even though Coastal had a 16-12 edge in hits.

Morey had four singles, Robbins had three singles, Anthony Bianco had a double and a single and Cheney and Smallidge each singled twice.

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