The Daniel Webster College baseball team is still seeking its first-ever NCAA Division III tournament win.

The Eagles, seeded eighth in the New England Regional, bowed to top seed Southern Maine University 5-0 on Wednesday afternoon at Whitehouse Field in Harwich, Mass.

DWC, now 28-11 overall, will try to stay alive in the losers bracket on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. against No. 7 MIT. MIT fell to Western New England 5-2 in the opening game of the tournament on Wednesday.

If the Eagles win, they play again on Friday at 1 p.m. If they lose vs. MIT (27-12, an at-large team), they will be eliminated in two games for the second straight year.

“I feel good,” Eagles coach J.P. Pyne said, adding he’ll send righty Ariel Ramos (4-1, 3.89) to the mound. “MIT is another good team. But if we get the effort out of our starter that we got (on Wednesday), I feel really good.”

Eagles starting pitcher Greg Dubela suffered his first loss of the season to fall to 8-1, pitching eight innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on eight hits, striking out two while not issuing a walk. Dubela threw 105 pitches, 71 for strikes.

“What Greg Dubela did to give us a chance was really special,” Pyne said. “He just competed really hard all day.”

But SMU’s lefty Logan Carman showed why he is 11-0 on the season, checking the Eagles on just three hits while tossing the complete game shutout. Carman walked two and struck out five. Carman didn’t quite have the control Dubela had, as he threw 101 pitches, 59 for strikes, and he hit two batters. But he was good enough.

“The thing that makes him good is his change-up,” Pyne said. “He kept our right-handed hitters off-balance all day.”

He escaped trouble twice, the worst of it in the fifth when the Eagles loaded the bases on base hits by Tyler Bonin and Rich Lizotte and a hit-by-pitch. But Carman got Josh Chasse to line out to end the threat, jamming him with a pitch.

“We had that one opportunity,” Pyne said. “When I heard it off the bat, I thought it was a hit. … It would’ve been real interesting to see how that game played out if we were to get a 2-1 lead right there. But give Carman credit.”

The Eagles left six men on overall. In the eighth, Kyle Brigham popped out with men on to end another threat.

Meanwhile, Forrest Chadwick had two hits and scored two runs to lead the 38-7 Huskies’ attack. He scored the game’s first run on designated hitter Chris Bernard’s RBI single in the fourth.

Dubela and the Eagles hung tough until the Huskies scored twice in the seventh. John Carey smacked an RBI double down the right field line to again plate Chadwick, and Matt Verrier singled in Carey to make it 3-0.

USM’s Tucker White tacked on two more in the eighth with a 375-foot, two-run homer to left center to give his team a commanding 5-0 lead. It was White’s team-leading 10th homer of the year.

It’s possible MIT will throw senior lefty Aric Dama (7-2, 2.18).

“We’ve been there before on the brink of elimination,” Pyne said. “It’s all hands on deck.”

Western NE and USM will square off Thursday at 4:30.

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