Ravens hold off Bison in game one; blow doors open in
nightcap
FORT MYERS, Fla. (March 12,
2004) - Franklin Pierce, receiving votes in both the
National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America (NCBWA) and
Collegiate Baseball magazine Division II polls this week,
got its spring break trip off to a good start by sweeping a
non-conference doubleheader with North Dakota State University at
the Gene Cusic Classic in Fort Myers, Fla., this evening. Franklin
Pierce held on for a 5-4 victory in game one before posting a 13-5
triumph in the nightcap.
In game one, Franklin Pierce led
5-2 after five innings and held back North Dakota State for its
second-straight win. Junior Eric Cavers (Otisfield,
Maine/Oxford Hills) and sophomore Mike
Chambers (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) each belted
homers for the Ravens to spark the victory.
Junior Ryan Bowling
(Cedar Springs, Mich./Muskegon CC) picked up his
first win in a Ravens uniform as he allowed four runs, just one
earned, on nine hits with four strikeouts and a walk over 6.1
innings of work. Sophomore Mike Farrell (Russell,
Mass./Gateway) earned the first save of his career by
retiring the only two batters he faced in the seventh.
Senior Dante Blancarte
(Amesbury, Mass./Amesbury) hit 2-for-2 for the Ravens
with a run scored. Sophomore Mike Feetham (Quincy,
Mass./North Quincy) and freshman Garrett
Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford Hills) both hit 2-3 with
a double and a run scored.
Chambers gave Franklin Pierce a 2-0
lead when his two-run bomb in the bottom of the first scored
Blancarte, who had singled. The Ravens added a run in the fourth,
after NDSU had knotted the score with single runs in the second and
third, as freshman Kim Hart (Gorham,
Maine/Gorham) singled to drive in Feetham who had
doubled. After Cavers led off the fifth with his first homer of the
season, sophomore Shawn Hayes (Charlton, Mass./Holy
Name) singled in classmate Elliott Shea
(Jaffrey, N.H./Conant) with what proved to be the
winning run.
| Teams
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| R
| H
| E
|
| NDSU
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 4
| 9
| 2
|
| FP
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 2
| 0
| X
| 5
| 12
| 5
|
BOX
SCORE & PLAY-BY-PLAY
Batteries:
NDSU - Jarrod Asmus, Josh Lambert (4), Neil Wagner (6) and
Chris Baso.
FP - Ryan Bowling, Mike Farrell and Eric Cavers.
WP: Bowling
(1-1)
LP: Asmus (1-2)
SV: Farrell (1)
HR: Cavers (1), Chambers (1)
In the nightcap, Franklin Pierce
sent 13 batters to the plate and erased an early 2-0 deficit with
11 runs in the top of the third inning and never looked back to
post its third-straight victory and complete the doubleheader
sweep.
Olson continued to swing a hot bat
by going 3-4 with two runs scored, an RBI and stolen base.
Classmate Vinnie Pennell (Spencer, Mass./David
Prouty) was 2-3 with four RBI, a double and two runs
scored. Shea was 2-3 with two runs scored and an RBI, while Cavers
finished 2-4 with two RBI.
Junior Keith Brouillard
(Westport, Mass./Somerset) picked up the win (1-0) as
he allowed five earned runs while scattering 13 hits and a walk
with eight strikeouts over six innings of work.
Chambers sparked the 11-run third
with a two-run single. Hayes, Olson, Feetham and Shea each added
RBI singles before Pennell capped the framed with a two-run single
of his own.
| Teams
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| R
| H
| E
|
| FP
| 0
| 0
| 11
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 13
| 15
| 0
|
| NDSU
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 5
| 13
| 4
|
BOX
SCORE & PLAY-BY-PLAY
Batteries:
FP - Keith Brouillard, Matt Fisher (7) and Eric
Cavers.
NDSU - Matt Erzar, Brandon Goltz (3), Derek Ford
(4), Pat Thielke (6) and Mike Baso.
WP: Brouillard
(1-0)
LP: Erzar (0-1)
HR: Jeremiah Piepkorn
Franklin Pierce (3-3) returns to
action tomorrow for a doubleheader with Wayne State (Mich.)
University beginning at 9 a.m. North Dakota State (2-7) faces
Ashland University Saturday at 3 p.m.
