Presutti tosses second-straight shutout as Ravens win
record 33rd game of season, posting third-straight shutout
MANCHESTER, N.H. (April 25,
2006) - Franklin Pierce, ranked 13th in this
week's National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA)
poll and 16th in this week's Collegiate
Baseball magazine Division II poll, won its program record
33rd game of the year with a 3-0 victory over Saint
Anselm College at Sullivan Park this afternoon.
Franklin Pierce, in addition to
establishing a new single-season win record, has won four-straight
(three-straight shutouts), 11 of 12 and 16 of 18 with today's
victory. The Ravens pitching staff has not allowed a run over their
last 30 innings of work, with five of their last seven wins coming
by way of shutout.
Junior right-hander
Shane Presutti (Southbridge,
Mass./Southbridge) picked up his second-straight
shutout victory to earn his eighth win of the season (8-0).
Presutti scattered three hits over his complete-game effort this
afternoon and set a new program record for consecutive shutout
innings with 18, surpassing Keith Brouillard's mark of 17.2 shutout
innings set in 2004, which was matched by senior Tyler
Cummings (South Paris, Maine/Oxford Hills) earlier
this season. Presutti also finished the contest with ten
strikeouts, marking his third double-digit strikeout performance of
the season, and just two
walks.
Senior Mike Chambers
(Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) hit 2-for-5 for the
Ravens with a stolen base and an RBI. Junior Kim Hart
(Gorham, Maine/Gorham) was 2-3 with a pair of stolen
bases, while senior Elliot Shea (Jaffrey,
N.H./Conant) and junior Vinny Pennell
(Spencer, Mass./David Prouty) were both 2-4 with a
run scored. Pennell also stole two bases, while Shea stole his
Conference-leading 24th base of the season to match
Pennell's single-season record set last spring.
Senior Ryan Call
(Hopkinton, Mass.) and junior Wayne
MacKay (Melrose, Mass.) both hit 1-for-3 to lead
Saint Anselm. Junior left-hander Jeff Keefe (Cambridge,
Mass.) suffered the loss (1-6) on the mound for the
Hawks, yielding three earned runs on ten hits with two walks and no
strikeouts in a complete game effort.
Franklin Pierce got on the board
with a run in the third as senior Randy Fenton
(Worcester, Mass./Doherty) led off with a single down
the right field line, reached second on a sacrifice and scored on a
Chambers single down the leftfield line. Pennell stole home to
score the Ravens second run in the fourth after he reached with a
single and advanced to third on a Hart single.
Franklin Pierce added another
insurance run in the seventh as Shea reached on an infield single
and later scored on a sacrifice fly from junior All-American
Garrett Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford
Hills) after Chambers moved him to third with an
single through the right side.
Franklin Pierce (33-9, 18-5 NE-10)
and Saint Anselm (19-21, 11-10 NE-10) complete their two-game
midweek series on Thursday at Dr. Pappas Field at 3:30 p.m. The
Ravens also host Pace University tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.
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