Mather strikes out career-high 14 over eight innings,
Duplissie drives in three
RINDGE, N.H. (April 12,
2006) - Franklin Pierce, ranked 18th in this
week's National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA)
Division II poll and 22nd in Collegiate
Baseball magazine's poll, rebounded from Tuesday's tough loss
at UMass Lowell with a 6-1 victory over Merrimack College in
Northeast-10 Conference baseball action at Dr. Arthur and Martha
Pappas Field this afternoon.
Junior right-hander
Arric Mather (Danville, N.H./Winnacunnet)
struck out a career-high 14 Merrimack batters over eight innings to
pick up his fifth win of the season (5-1). He yielded just the one
earned run, while scattering five hits and a walk. Junior
Nate Berberian (Northborough,
Mass./Algonquin) closed the game out with a perfect
ninth.
Senior All-American
Bryan Duplissie (East Swanzey, N.H./Monadnock
Regional) led the Ravens offense as he hit 3-for-4
with a stolen base and three RBI. Senior Mike Chambers
(Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) was 2-4 with an RBI
and runs scored, while sophomore Matt Anderson
(Medford, Mass./Medford) hit 1-4 with an RBI.
Freshman Jeff Bercume
(Worcester, Mass./St. John's of Shrewsbury) led
Merrimack as he hit 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and an RBI.
Freshman Bob McCarthy (Chelmsford,
Mass./Burlington) was 1-3 with a run scored.
Junior Brian DeMasse
(Reading, Mass./Reading) took the loss (2-3),
yielding six runs, three earned, on nine hits with three strikeouts
and two walks. Junior Eric Malinowski (Newington,
Conn./Kingswood-Oxford) was perfect in two innings of
relief.
Franklin Pierce took advantage of
two Merrimack errors in the first for three unearned runs, marking
the 23rd time in 31 games this season the Ravens have
scored in their first at bat. Senior Elliott Shea
(Jaffrey, N.H./Conant) reached on an error to lead
off the inning, stole second and then scored on an RBI single from
Chambers. Junior All-American Garrett Olson (Norway,
Maine/Oxford Hills) reached and advanced to second on
a dropped fly ball to second, before Duplissie followed with a
two-run single to left center.
The Ravens added a single run in
the third after DeMasse retired the first two batters of the
inning, as Olson doubled and scored when Duplissie singled.
Franklin Pierce added another run in the fourth as Pennell led off
with a walk, stole second, and later scored on an Anderson single
just past the Merrimack third baseman.
Merrimack scored its run in the
fifth as McCarthy led off with a bloop single down the rightfield
line and later scored on a two-out single from Bercume. The Ravens
rounded out the scoring in the sixth as Shea singled with two out
and advanced to third on a Chambers single. Chambers then drew a
pickoff throw from DeMasse, and Shea to scored before Chambers was
tagged for the third out of the inning.
Franklin Pierce (23-8, 8-4 NE-10)
is back in action tomorrow when it hosts No. 30 UMass Lowell in a
key Conference contest at 3:30 p.m. Merrimack (9-15, 5-8 NE-10)
visits Assumption College tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.
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