Greyhounds snap 11-game slide with
commanding win
RINDGE, N.H. (April 23,
2002) - Assumption College snapped an 11-game losing
streak as it posted a commanding 22-2 win over Franklin Pierce in
Northeast-10 Conference baseball action at Crystal Field this
afternoon.
Senior right-hander Corey Phillips
kept the Franklin Pierce offense at bay, while Assumption banged
out 24 hits to roll to the victory. Phillips (3-4) allowed just two
earned runs on six hits with a career-high 15 strikeouts and two
walks in seven innings of work.
Sophomore Tim Caouette hit
five-for-six with a double, a stolen base, two runs scored and four
RBIs to lead the Greyhounds.
Freshman Chris Colabello was 3-5
with a homerun, three runs scored and four RBIs, while classmate
Andy Morano was a perfect 4-4 with five runs scored and two RBIs.
Senior Pat Devine finished 4-5 with three runs scored and three
RBIs.
Assumption jumped out to a 6-0 lead
after two innings and broke the game open with four in the fifth to
take a 10-0 lead. Junior John Costello laced a two-run single to
plate a pair of unearned runs in the first.
In the second, Bertrand belted an
RBI double and Caouette added a run-scoring single to spark the
inning.
Morano sparked the four-run fifth
with a two-run single and sophomore Steve Muscatello added an RBI
double.
Franklin Pierce chipped into the
lead with a pair in the sixth inning. Sophomore Dante
Blancarte (Amesbury, Mass./Amesbury) led off the
frame with a double and scored on an RBI double from freshman
Eric Cavers (Otisfield, Maine/Oxford
Hills). Mike Callahan (Worcester, Mass./St. Peter
Marian) sandwiched a single between the two doubles and scored the
Ravens final run on a wild pitch.
Cavers and Blancarte each hit 2-3
for Franklin Pierce with a double apiece.
Junior Dan Close
(Leominster, Mass./Leominster) suffered the loss
(1-2) as he was touched for six runs, three earned, on six hits
with two strikeouts and two walks in 1.1 innings of work.
Franklin Pierce (19-15, 12-9 NE-10)
and Assumption (8-24, 5-17 NE-10) battle again tomorrow in
Worcester, Mass., at 3:30 p.m.
| Teams
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| R
| H
| E
|
| Assumption
| 3
| 3
| 0
| 0
| 4
| 0
| 2
| 6
| 4
| 22
| 24
| 1
|
| FP
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 6
| 3
|
Battery
AC -- Corey Phillips, Tim Halacy (8th) and Tim
Caouette and Jim Tomasetti
FP -- Dan Close, Gary Laasko (2nd), Dante
Blancarte (6th), Bryan Borowski (8th), Greg Basile (8th), Anthony
Leonelli (9th) and Eric Cavers and Al Medeiros.
HR: Colabello (2)
