Hayes' eighth inning RBI triple puts Ravens up for good,
Duplissie belts eighth homer
RINDGE, N.H. (April 14,
2005) - Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 29 in this week's
Collegiate Baseball magazine Division II poll, rallied
from a 4-2 deficit and collected a 6-5 victory over Assumption
College in Northeast-10 Conference baseball action at Dr. Arthur
and Martha Pappas Field this afternoon.
Junior Bryan Duplissie
(East Swanzey, N.H./Monadnock Regional) led the
Franklin Pierce offense as he hit 2-for-4, including his
Conference-leading eighth home run of the season as the three-run
blast put the Ravens up 5-4 in the sixth. Classmate
Elliott Shea (Jaffrey, N.H./Conant) was
2-4 with a homer, stolen base and two RBI, while sophomore
Vinny Pennell (Spencer, Mass./David
Prouty) was 2-4.
Sophomore Garrett Olson
(Norway, Maine/Oxford Hills) finished 1-2 with a walk
and two runs scored to extend his hitting streak to 17 games. He
was also hit by his seventh pitch of the season, which was also the
22nd of his career, matching the program's career mark.
Junior Mike Chambers (Londonderry,
N.H./Londonderry) was held hitless for the first time
this season, ending his single-season record hitting streak at 19
games.
Sophomore reliever Matt
Fisher (Athol, Mass./Athol) picked up his second win
of the season (2-1) with 2.1 innings of shutout relief, allowing
two hits and a walk with one strikeout.
Senior Chris Colabello
(Milford, Mass./Milford) finished 3-for-4 at the
plate for Assumption with a double and RBI. Freshman
Brian Quaglieri (Shrewsbury, Mass./St.
John's) was 1-4 with a home run and two runs scored,
while sophomore Matt Butcaris (Beacon Falls,
Conn./Seymour) was 2-2 after entering the game as a
pinch hitter in the seventh.
Junior Nick Andrade
(East Providence, R.I./East Providence) suffered the
loss, yielding just an unearned run and a hit in two innings of
relief for the Greyhounds. Classmate Matt Anderson
(Hopkinton, Mass./Hopkinton) started and allowed five
earned runs on seven hits with five strikeouts and a walk over the
first seven.
Anderson settled down after
yielding a pair of runs on three hits in the first and faced the
minimum over the next four, retiring 11 of the 12 batters he faced
in that span, before Olson led off the sixth with a single.
Franklin Pierce struck first with a
pair of runs as Olson drew a leadoff walk, followed by Shea's third
home run of the season to left. It marked the 12th time
the Ravens have scored in the first inning (9-3 record in those
games) and the fifth time over the last six games (three
straight).
Assumption rallied for three in the
second to take its first lead of the game. Quaglieri led off with
his team's first home run of the season and the first homer by an
opposing player at Dr. Pappas Field. Freshman Steve
Zarembka (East Providence, R.I./East Providence)
doubled and scored on Colabello's double with two down. Colabello
advanced to third on a wild pitch, then scored on a wild ball four
to senior Brandon Brower (Middleboro,
Mass./Coyle-Cassidy).
The Greyhounds loaded the bases
with a pair of walks and a hit batter in the fifth before junior
Tyler Vivian (Ashland, Mass./Marian)
scored on a wild pitch on a swinging strikeout.
Franklin Pierce's bats awoke in the
sixth as Olson and Shea singled to set up Duplissie's three-run
bomb to left with two out. The Greyhounds knotted the score in the
seventh as Quaglieri reached on a fielder's choice and later scored
on a wild pitch.
Chambers reached on an error with
two out in the eighth, before Hayes pushed him across with what
would prove to be the winning run with a triple to left center.
Franklin Pierce (13-7, 7-4 NE-10)
is back in action tomorrow when it hosts Granite State rivals
Southern New Hampshire University at 3:30 p.m. Assumption (3-18,
2-9 NE-10) hosts Merrimack College at St. John's High School for a
doubleheader on Saturday beginning at noon.
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