Red-hot Ravens win record ninth-straight with season high
run and hit totals
RINDGE, N.H. (April 22,
2004) - Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 6 in this week's
National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division
II Northeast Region poll, finished off a three-game series sweep of
Southern New Hampshire University with a 19-5 triumph in
Northeast-10 Conference baseball action at Crystal Field this
afternoon.
Franklin Pierce has now won a
record nine-straight as well as 11 in a row at home dating back to
last season. The Ravens posted season-high run and hit totals in
today's victory.
Five Ravens registered multiple
hits on the afternoon, led by junior Eric Cavers
(Otisfield, Maine/Oxford Hills) who finished 3-for-6
with a double, home run, three runs scored and three RBI. Sophomore
Mike Chambers (Londonderry,
N.H./Londonderry) was 3-6 with a double, while
freshman Kim Hart (Gorham, Maine/Gorham)
batted 2-4 with a double and three RBI. Classmate
Garrett Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford
Hills) hit 2-5 with an RBI and Vinny
Pennell (Spencer, Mass./David Prouty) was 2-3 with
three runs scored.
Freshman Daniel
Fournier (Worcester, Mass./Holy Name) improved to 5-1
in his first collegiate season as he went the first five and
allowed five runs, three earned, on five hits and two walks with
five strikeouts. Redshirt freshman Matt Fisher (Athol,
Mass./Athol) went the final two and was perfect with
five strikeouts.
Junior Chris Hart
(Waterville, Maine/Waterville) was the lone Southern
New Hampshire batter with multiple hits as he was 2-3 with a run
scored. Classmate Mike Bernard (Derry,
N.H./Pinkerton) was 1-3 with a run scored, while
senior Jamie Rouleau (Barrington,
N.H./Dover) registered a double.
Senior Jason Paul
(Henniker, N.H./John Stark) suffered the loss (2-4)
as he was touched for eight runs, just one earned, on five hits and
five walks with two strikeouts in 1.2 innings.
Southern New Hampshire took an
early lead with a single run in the second when junior
John Babcock (Auburn, N.H./Pinkerton)
singled, advanced to third on consecutive Fournier balks, then
scored on a wild pitch.
Franklin Pierce answered with eight
runs in the bottom of the second. Hart and sophomore
Randy Fenton (Worcester, Mass./Doherty)
both registered two-run singles to spark the rally as 12 Ravens
went to the plate in the inning.
Franklin Pierce (22-16, 17-4 NE-10)
returns to action on Saturday when it opens a huge weekend series
with Stonehill College, ranked fourth in the region, at home with a
doubleheader beginning at noon. Southern New Hampshire (15-17, 8-14
NE-10) visits Stonehill tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.
BOXSCORE
& PLAY-BY-PLAY
