Ravens reach 30-win
plateau for fifth-straight year in record time
RINDGE, N.H. (April 20,
2006) - Franklin Pierce, ranked 15th in both
this week's Collegiate Baseball magazine and National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II polls,
reached the 30-win plateau for the fifth-straight year with a 7-1
victory over American International College in Northeast-10
Conference baseball action at AIC Park this afternoon.
Franklin Pierce reaches the 30-win
mark in the fewest amount of games in program history after
breaking open a 2-1 game with five runs in the seventh. Senior
right-hander Tyler Cummings (South Paris, Maine/Oxford
Hills) picked up his sixth win of the season (6-1),
allowing an earned run, while scattering eight hits to go with
seven strikeouts and no walks in a complete game effort.
Junior All-American
Garrett Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford
Hills) paced the Ravens offense as he hit 2-for-5
with a double, triple, stolen base and four RBI. Senior
Mike Chambers (Londonderry,
N.H./Londonderry) was 2-5 with a double
(school-record 20th of the season) and two runs scored,
while classmate Randy Fenton (Worcester,
Mass./Doherty) was 2-4 with a pair of doubles to
extend his team-leading hitting streak to 11 games. Senior
Elliott Shea (Jaffrey, N.H./Conant) stole
two bases to pull within one of teammate Vinny
Pennell's (Spencer, Mass./David Prouty) single-season
record of 24 set last
spring.
Seniors Neal Quesnel
(South Hadley, Mass./South Hadley) and
Jon Ferry (Thorndike, Mass./Palmer) each
hit 2-for-4 for American International. Freshman Kevin
Farrell (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug) was 1-3 with an
RBI.
Junior right-hander
Bryan Soltis (Plantsville,
Conn./Southington) suffered the loss for the Yellow
Jackets (3-1) as he was touched for six runs, five earned, on eight
hits with five strikeouts and two walks over 6.2 innings.
Franklin Pierce grabbed a 2-0 lead
with single runs in the second and third. Freshman
Scott Savastano (Plymouth, Mass./Plymouth
North) reached on an error to lead off the second and
later scored as result of an outfield error on a single from
sophomore Matt Anderson (Medford,
Mass./Medford). Back-to-back doubles from Chambers
and Olson with one out resulted in the Ravens run in the third.
AIC cut the lead in half in the
sixth as junior Tyler Cooke (Brattleboro,
Vt./Brattleboro) led off with a single and later
scored on Farrell's one-out single. Franklin Pierce broke the game
open with five in the seventh. An error and two singles loaded the
bases for Olson, who emptied them with a two-out triple. Senior
All-American Bryan Duplissie (East Swanzey,
N.H./Monadnock) followed with an RBI double and later
scored on a Savastano single.
Franklin Pierce (30-9, 15-5 NE-10)
opens a three-game weekend series with Granite State rivals
Southern New Hampshire University with a doubleheader at Dr. Arthur
and Martha Pappas Field on Saturday at noon. American International
(9-19, 5-15 NE-10) visits UMass Lowell on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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