Ravens clinch first round bye in next week's NE-10
Championships
RINDGE, N.H. (May 4, 2005)
- Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 30 in Collegiate
Baseball magazine's Division II poll, banged out a season-high
20 hits en route to posting a commanding 15-0 victory over American
International College in Northeast-10 Conference baseball action at
Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas Field this afternoon.
The win clinches a first round bye
in next week's Northeast-10 Championships in Lowell, Mass. The
Ravens, who will be the No. 2 seed behind regular season champion
Southern Connecticut State, will move directly into the
double-elimination final four the weekend of May 13-15 at UMass
Lowell's LeLachuer
Park.
Four Franklin Pierce pitchers
combined for four-hit shutout work today, led by sophomore starter
Clay Jenkins (Easton, N.H./Profile) who
scattered four hits and four walks with a strikeout in six
scoreless innings of work to improve to 2-1 on the year.
Sophomore Neil Cacciola
(Wakefield, Mass./Wakefield), freshman
Kyle Graham (Westboro, Mass./Westboro)
and sophomore Matt Fisher (Athol,
Mass./Athol) combined for three innings of perfect
relief. Fisher fanned the side in order in the ninth.
Junior Randy Fenton
(Worcester, Mass./Doherty) led a Ravens offensive
attack which saw every batter on the day collect a hit as he was
3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a stolen base, two RBI and two runs
scored. Sophomore Garrett Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford
Hills) was also 3-5 with a steal, run scored and two
RBI, while classmate Kim Hart (Gorham,
Maine/Gorham) hit 3-4 with an RBI.
Junior Mike Chambers
(Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) finished 2-for-4 with
a double, three runs scored and two RBI. The double was his
Conference-leading 17th of the season matching former
teammate Eric Cavers' single-season record at the
College.
Seniors Eric Boissy
(Enfield, Conn./Enfield) and Jon Ferry
(Thorndike, Mass./Palmer) both finished 1-for-2 at
the plate for American International.
Sophomore right-hander
Terry Loh (Milford, Conn./Foran) suffered
the loss (1-6) for the Yellow Jackets as he surrendered nine runs,
seven earned, on ten hits over four innings.
Loh faced the minimum through the
first two, allowing just a leadoff hit to Olson in the first,
before Franklin Pierce scored six in the third. Chambers roped a
two-run double, while Fenton scored on a double-steal with Olson,
who registered an RBI single along with junior Shawn
Hayes (Charlton, Mass./Holy Name), while junior
Bryan Duplissie (East Swanzey, N.H./Monadnock
Regional) drove in a run with a sac fly.
The Ravens added three more in the
fourth, sparked by an RBI double from Fenton, then added a single
run in the fifth and two in the sixth to open a 12-0 advantage.
Franklin Pierce (26-12, 20-9 NE-10)
closes out its regular season tomorrow with a Conference match up
with the College of Saint Rose at Dr. Pappas Field at 3:30 p.m.
American International (7-26, 3-21 NE-10) hosts UMass Lowell
tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.
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