Golden Knights rally for game one
victory; Weagle out-duels Jette in nightcap
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 13,
2003) - Franklin Pierce, ranked first in this week's NCAA
Division II Northeast Regional rankings, split a doubleheader with
College of Saint Rose in key Northeast-10 Conference baseball
action at Bleecker Stadium this afternoon. Saint Rose rallied for a
3-2 win in game one, before Franklin Pierce posted a 2-1 comeback
win in the nightcap.
In game one, Saint Rose rallied
from a run behind on two occasions in the late innings with single
runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth. Sophomore Jean-Francois
DuFour sparked the Golden Knights offense by hitting 2-for-4 with a
home run, while senior Erik Hoover was 3-3. Classmate Bob Timke
finished 2-4 with a run scored.
Junior Justin King earned the win
(3-0) with an inning with no-hit relief, striking out one.
Classmate Jason Rodriguez pinned down his second save of the season
with a no-hit ninth. Sophomore Leon Kruset pitched the first seven
innings, allowing two runs, just one earned, on five hits with five
strikeouts and three walks.
Senior Paul McAuliffe
(Foxboro, Mass./Foxboro) led the Franklin Pierce
offense by hitting 2-5 with a double. Freshman Elliott
Shea (Jaffrey, N.H./Conant) finished 2-3 with an RBI.
Freshman Tyler Cummings
(South Paris, Maine/Oxford Hills) was pinned with the
loss (2-2), allowing an unearned run despite not allowing a hit
with a walk and a strikeout in the eighth. Senior Jon
White (Medford, Mass./Arlington Catholic) pitched
seven innings, allowing two earned runs on nine hits with five
strikeouts and a walk.
The game was scoreless until
Franklin Pierce broke through with a run in the fourth. Shea
registered an RBI single to center that scored senior
Josh Coughlin (Keene, N.H./Keene) who had
walked.
Saint Rose knotted the score in the
sixth thanks to DuFour's fourth home run of the season to left
field. Franklin Pierce forged back ahead in the seventh as junior
Dante Blancarte (Amesbury,
Mass./Amesbury) singled in sophomore Eric
Cavers (Otisfield, Maine/Oxford Hills).
The Golden Knights knotted the
score again in the bottom half of the inning when Timke scored on a
fielder's choice, then took the lead in the eighth when sophomore
Paul Greco scored when Timke reached on an error.
Shea drew a lead-off walk in the
ninth for the Ravens, but was left stranded at second after being
advanced with a sacrifice bunt.
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BOX
SCORE
Battery
FP: Jon White, Tyler Cummings (9) and Eric
Cavers
CSR: Leon Kruset, Justin King (8), Jason Rodriguez (9) and
Chris Burdo
WP: King
(3-0)
LP: Cummings (2-2)
SV: Rodriguez (2)
HR: Dufour
In the nightcap, Franklin Pierce
junior right-hander Matt Weagle (Charlton, Mass./Shephard
Hill) out-dueled Saint Rose senior Kevin Jette (Amsterdam,
N.Y./Amsterdam) for the victory.
Weagle allowed just one earned run
on three hits with nine strikeouts and no walks in the complete
game victory to improve to 4-0 this spring. The win marked Weagle's
eighth-straight winning decision dating back to last season,
setting a new program record.
McAuliffe paced the offense again,
hitting 2-4 with a home run, while Cavers was 1-3 with an RBI. Shea
and fellow freshman Shawn Hayes (Charlton, Mass./Holy
Name) also chipped in hits for the Ravens.
Jette was pinned with the loss
(1-1) as he yielded two earned runs on six hits with ten strikeouts
and three walks in going the distance. Timke provided the Saint
Rose offense, hitting 1-2 with a solo home run in the fourth that
gave the Golden Knights the early lead.
After the Timke homer, Franklin
Pierce answered in the bottom of the fifth, as Cavers singled up
the middle to score freshman Mike Chambers (Londonderry,
N.H./Londonderry), who led off the frame with a walk.
The Ravens took the lead for good
in the eighth when McAuliffe belted his second home run of the
season and the team's first of the spring with the
Conference-mandated wood bats to left field.
Weagle set the side down in order
in the ninth with a pair of groundouts and a fly ball to right to
nail down the win in the ninth.
Franklin Pierce (11-6, 4-2 NE-10)
returns to action on Tuesday when it travels to Worcester, Mass.,
to face Assumption College at 3:30 p.m. Saint Rose (14-6, 4-2
NE-10) hosts Southern Connecticut State University on Wednesday for
a doubleheader beginning at 1:30 p.m.
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BOX
SCORE
Battery
FP: Matt Weagle and Eric Cavers
CSR: Kevin Jette and Joe Mariano
WP: Weagle (4-0)
LP: Jette (1-1)
HR:
CSR -- Timke
FP -- McAuliffe
