Top-seeded Ravens crush #4 Southern Connecticut, 21-1, for
second Northeast Regional title in four years
RINDGE, N.H. (May 22, 2006)
- Top-seeded and No. 12-ranked Franklin Pierce captured
its second NCAA Division II Northeast Regional Championship in four
years with a convincing 21-1 victory over fourth-seeded and
reigning regional champion Southern Connecticut State University at
Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas Field this afternoon.
Franklin Pierce (44-11) advances to
the 2006 NCAA Division II Baseball Championships in Montgomery,
Ala., May 27 through June 4. The Ravens will face Central Region
champs Ashland University (46-15) on Sunday, May 28, at 2 p.m.
(EST), in their first game. Franklin Pierce also captured a
regional title in 2003, advancing to the semifinal round of the
World Series. Southern Connecticut State sees its season come to an
end with a 36-19 mark.
Senior All-American
Bryan Duplissie (East Swanzey, N.H./Monadnock
Regional) was named the Northeast Regional's Most
Outstanding Player as he rounded out the week with a complete-game
effort on the mound to collect his sixth win of the season (6-1).
Duplissie allowed just the one earned run on seven hits with seven
strikeouts and a walk. He also sparked the Ravens at the plate,
hitting 3-for-6 with a pair of doubles and two
RBI.
Junior All-American
Garrett Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford
Hills) was 4-for-5 with a pair of homers, a double,
three runs scored and six RBI. Sophomore Matt Anderson
(Medford, Mass./Medford) was 4-6 with a double, grand
slam, three runs scored and five RBI, while senior Mike
Chambers (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) hit 3-5 with
a double, his fifth home run of the regional, three runs scored and
three RBI. Senior Randy Fenton (Worcester,
Mass./Doherty) was 2-3 with an RBI, two stolen bases
and four runs scored.
No Southern batters registered
multiple hits as it was led by freshmen Kevin Bowermen
(West Haven, Conn./West Haven) and Mo
Davidson (Winsted, Conn./Northwest Regional) with
1-for-2 efforts. Freshman Michael Diaz (Monroe,
Conn./Masuk) was responsible for the Owls lone run
with a solo home run with two outs in the third.
Senior Joe Vingo
(Harrison, N.Y./Lakeland) suffered the loss (5-5) as
he was hit for five earned runs on six hits and a walk with no
strikeouts in an inning plus of work.
Franklin Pierce hit an impressive
.402 as a team over its five regional games, blasting 22 home runs
(two more than the other five teams combined) and 15 doubles, while
scoring 60 runs (12/gm).
Franklin Pierce wasted no time
jumping in front, jumping on the scoreboard in the first on
Chambers two-run home run to left center. The Ravens expanded their
lead to 6-0 with four in the second as Fenton and Olson notched RBI
singles, before Duplissie helped his cause with a two-run double
down the leftfield line.
Southern Connecticut got on the
board with Diaz's solo shot to right in the third, but Franklin
Pierce answered back with two in the home-half. Senior
Mike Feetham (Quincy, Mass./North Quincy)
led off with a home run, before Chambers registered an RBI double.
Leading 9-1, the Ravens broke the
game open with seven in the sixth. Olson started the onslaught with
an RBI double, before freshman Scott Savastano
(Plymouth, Mass./Plymouth North) added an RBI single.
Junior Kim Hart (Gorham, Maine/Gorham)
had an RBI double, before Anderson rounded out the frame with his
first career grand slam.
Olson led off the seventh with a
homer, before the Ravens rounded out their scoring with four in the
eighth. Anderson had an RBI single and Olson added a three-run
homer to left-center.
Joining Duplissie on the Regional
All-Tournament team were Anderson, Chambers, Olson and Savastano
(the entire Ravens infield) from Franklin Pierce. Senior
Joe Pagan (Bridgeport, Conn./Central) and
junior Josh Terletzky (Plainfield,
Conn./Plainfield) were named to the team from
Southern Connecticut. The entire All-Tournament team is listed
below.
Olson hit .560 (14-for-25) for the
regional with 11 runs scored, two doubles, five home runs and 10
RBI. In addition to today's complete game effort, Duplissie hit
.480 (12-25) with five runs scored, three doubles, three homers and
six RBI. Anderson finished with a .476 (10-21) with seven runs
scored, three homers and eight RBI.
Boxscore
& Play-by-Play
2006 NCAA Division II
Northeast Regional
All-Tournament Team
Most Outstanding
Player: Bryan Duplissie, Franklin Pierce
C: Matt Anderson,
Franklin Pierce
1B: Bryan Duplissie, Franklin Pierce
2B: Mike Chambers, Franklin Pierce
SS: Garrett Olson, Franklin Pierce
3B: Scott Savastano, Franklin Pierce
OF: Sean Brown, Dominican
OF: Steve Paddock, UMass Lowell
OF: Mike Zani, Dominican
DH: Joe Pagan, Southern Connecticut State
P: Josh Terletzky, Southern Connecticut State
P: Richard Barry, Dowling
