Ravens squander 9-3 lead after
five innings
EASTHAM, Mass. (March 10,
2002) - Keene State College scored nine runs in its last
two at-bats to rally for a 13-9 win over Franklin Pierce at the
2002 Cape Cod Classic at Nauset High School this afternoon.
Junior shortstop Justin Hickman
lined a two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning to put
Keene State up for good and the Owls added three more insurance
runs to post the comeback win.
Junior Travis Muckle batted
three-for-four and scored two runs to pace the Owls offense, while
Hickman finished 2-5, including the gamewinning double.
Freshman Patrick Austin earned his
first collegiate win (1-0) in relief of senior starter Andrew
Cuthbertson.
Franklin Pierce senior
Scott Loiseau (Worcester, Mass./St. Peter
Marian), playing in his school-record 130th
consecutive game, batted 2-5, to extend his record hitting streak
to 21 games (dating back to last season), scored two runs and added
an RBI.
Junior Paul McAuliffe
(Foxboro, Mass./Foxboro) hit 2-5 with two RBIs, while
seniorEric Burney (Rockville,
Conn./Rockville) was 2-3 with a double and two runs
scored. Junior Al Medeiros (New Bedford, Mass./New
Bedford) hit 2-4 and scored a run.
Junior reliever Dan
Close (Leominster, Mass./Leominster) suffered the
loss (0-1) on the mound for the Ravens.
Sophomore Dante
Blancarte (Amesbury, Mass./Amesbury) got Franklin
Pierce on the board with a solo homer in the first inning. Franklin
Pierce scored three more times in the third, sparked by an RBI
single by McAuliffe.
Keene State got those three runs
back in the bottom of the third with three unearned runs thanks to
a trio of Franklin Pierce errors.
The Ravens erupted for five runs in
the fifth inning as freshman Bear Dunn (Charlton,
Mass./Shepherd Hill) laced a two-run triple and
McAuliffe lined an RBI single. However, Keene State rallied with
ten runs over its final three at-bats, capped by the five run
eighth.
Franklin Pierce (2-1) returns to
action on Wednesday afternoon when it travels to Dowling College
for a non-conference battle at 3:30 p.m.
| Teams
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| R
| H
| E
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| FP
| 1
| 0
| 3
| 0
| 5
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 9
| 13
| 5
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| KSC
| 0
| 0
| 3
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 4
| 5
| X
| 13
| 10
| 2
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Batteries
FP: A.J. Hatton, Dante Blancarte (7th), Dan Close
(7th), Matt Weagle (8th) and Al Medeiros KSC:
Andrew Cuthbertson, Patrick Austin (4th), Ben Tyer (9th) and Doug
Morse
WP: Austin (1-0)
LP: Close (0-1)
HR: Blancarte (1)
