Ravens win record eighth-straight with 16-run, 16-hit
attack
MANCHESTER, N.H. (April 21,
2004) - Franklin Pierce, ranked sixth in this week's
National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division
II Northeast Region poll, scored 15 runs over the first five
innings and coasted to a 16-6 victory over Southern New Hampshire
University at Penmen Field this afternoon.
Franklin Pierce, which extended its
program record winning streak to eight, matched a season-high with
16 hits - 12 over the first five innings in building up a 15-4
lead. Freshman Kim Hart (Gorham,
Maine/Gorham) led the Ravens as he finished 3-for-5
with a double, his first career home-run and a season-best four
RBI. Classmate Vinny Pennell (Spencer, Mass./David
Prouty) was also 3-5 with a double, stolen base, two
runs scored and three RBI. Junior Eric Cavers
(Otisfield, Maine/Oxford Hills) finished 2-4 with a
pair of doubles and three RBI, while freshman Garrett
Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford Hills) was 2-4 with a
double, RBI and
steal.
Freshman right-hander
Neil Cacciola (North Andover,
Mass./Wakefield) picked up the win in relief (2-2),
allowing two runs, one earned, on just one hit with five strikeouts
and a walk in four innings of work. Classmate Stephen
Minor (Worcester, Mass./Holy Name) went the first
four in his first collegiate start and yielded three runs, two
earned, on three hits and three walks with four strikeouts.
Senior Ron Demers
(Berlin, N.H./Berlin) led Southern New Hampshire, as
he was 2-5 with two RBI. Classmate Jason Woodward
(Mystic, Conn./Stonington) hit 2-4 with a run scored,
while junior Chris Hart (Waterville,
Maine/Waterville) finished 1-3 and scored a run.
Sophomore Joe Johnson
(Pelham, N.H./UMass Lowell) suffered the loss (1-6),
as he was touched for seven earned runs on eight hits and four
walks with four strikeouts in three-plus innings of work.
Franklin Pierce struck early as
sophomore Elliott Shea (Jaffrey,
N.H./Conant) smacked a solo home run down the
leftfield line in a two-run first. The Ravens scored a run in the
second on back-to-back doubles by Pennell and Cavers and two in the
third as Olson was hit by a pitch for the 13th time this
season followed by Hart's first career home run.
The Ravens added two more in the
fourth, sparked by a two-run single up the middle by Pennell with
two out, then busted the game open with a seven-run fifth as they
sent 11 batters to the plate. Cavers and Hart both belted two-run
doubles in the game-breaking frame.
SNHU scored two runs in the fourth
and fifth with the benefit of just one hit, an RBI single up the
middle by Demers in the fifth and trailed just 8-3 heading into the
fifth.
Franklin Pierce (21-16, 16-4 NE-10)
and Southern New Hampshire (15-16, 8-13 NE-10) round out their
three-game midweek series tomorrow afternoon in Rindge at 3:30 p.m.
BOXSCORE
& PLAY-BY-PLAY
