Bulldogs make the most of five hits, four Ravens errors
RINDGE, N.H. (April 25,
2003) - Bryant College made the most of a five-hit
offensive attack in posting a 5-3 victory over Franklin Pierce,
ranked fourth in this week's New England Intercollegiate Baseball
Association (NEIBA) Division II poll, in game one of a three-game
Northeast-10 Conference Markey Division weekend series at Crystal
Field this afternoon.
Freshman right-hander Michael
Bonelli kept the Franklin Pierce bats at bay for the majority of
the afternoon for Bryant to improve to 4-2 for the spring. Bonelli
yielded three earned runs, scattering eight hits and three walks
with six strikeouts in 7.1 innings of work. Senior Paul Gately
entered with runners on the corners and just one out in the eighth
and allowed just one inherited runner to score on a sac fly as he
fanned three in 1.2 innings of no-hit relief to pick up his second
save of the season.
No Bulldog batters had multiple
hits on the afternoon. Freshman Paul Novakowski was 1-for-3 with a
double and two RBI, while junior B.J. Gagnon also ripped a double,
scored a run an added an RBI. Senior Chris Dwyer also drove in a
run.
Junior Dante Blancarte
(Amesbury, Mass./Amesbury) led the Ravens eight hit
attack by batting 2-3 with a double and two RBI. Sophomore
Eric Cavers (Otisfield, Maine/Oxford
Hills) extended his team season-high hitting streak
to 11 games as he finished 2-3 with two runs scored.
Freshman Tyler Cummings
(South Paris, Maine/Oxford Hills) suffered the loss
(3-4) as he allowed four runs, three earned, on four hits with a
season-low four strikeouts and three walks in seven innings of
work. Freshman Jake Tenney (Surry,
N.H./Monadnock) allowed an unearned run on one hit in
two innings of relief.
Bryant struck first with an
unearned run in the second inning. Senior David Lee singled up the
middle, but advanced to third when it got by the Franklin Pierce
centerfielder. He scored a batter later when sophomore Mickey Ryan
followed with a perfect sacrifice fly to center.
The Bulldogs took a 4-0 lead in the
third. Freshman Daryle Crowley laced a one-out single through the
left side to start the rally. After Cummings hit a batter,
Novanowski followed with a double to left center that scored two
runs. Gagnon followed two batters later with a double of his own to
right center to score Novanowski with two away.
Franklin Pierce got a run back in
the bottom of the frame when Cavers led off with a double and later
scored on a sac fly from Blancarte. The Ravens closed to within one
in the bottom of the eighth. Freshman Elliott Shea
(Jaffrey, N.H./Conant) and Cavers opened the inning
with back-to-back singles. After Bonelli got a strikeout, Blancarte
looped a single down the rightfield line to score Shea and chase
Bonelli. Gately got Ravens senior Dan Close
(Leominster, Mass./Leominster) to pop the ball up
into foul territory, but it was just far enough to score Cavers on
a close play at the plate. Gatley then closed out the rally with a
ground ball to second.
The Bulldogs tacked on an unearned
insurance run in the ninth and Gately fanned the side in order to
end the game.
Franklin Pierce (17-10, 10-6 NE-10)
and Bryant (19-19-1, 9-11 NE-10) are scheduled to play game two of
the weekend series tomorrow afternoon in Smithfield, R.I., at 1
p.m. Should the game get rained out two teams with play at
doubleheader on Sunday in Rindge at 1 p.m., unless Crystal Field is
unplayable when the games will be moved to Bryant. The final
decisions will be made on gameday morning.
| Teams
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| R
| H
| E
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| BRY
| 0
| 1
| 3
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 5
| 5
| 0
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| FPC
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 3
| 8
| 4
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BOX
SCORE
Battery
FP: Tyler Cummings, Jake Tenney (8) and Eric
Cavers
BRY: Michael Bonelli, Paul Gately (8) and Jim Collins
WP: Bonelli (4-2)
LP: Cummings (3-4)
SV: Gately (2)
