Knights plate eight runs in last two at bats to snap Ravens
record-matching win streak at 12
BOCA RATON, Fla. (March 20,
2007) - Franklin Pierce, ranked 10th in this
week's National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA)
Division II poll and 12th in the Collegiate
Baseball magazine rankings, saw its program-record matching
winning streak halted at 12 games as Lynn University, among teams
receiving votes in the Collegiate Baseball poll, notched a
14-6 victory at the McCusker Sportsplex this afternoon. The game
was delayed 1:15 at the outset because of rain.
Lynn scored eight runs over its
last two at bats after Franklin Pierce had forced a 6-6 tie with a
single run in the seventh. The loss snaps the Ravens win streak at
12 games, matching the program record accomplished two other times,
including once in 2006. The Knights have now won their last eight.
Franklin Pierce junior captain Matt Anderson (Medford,
Mass./Medford) saw his school record streak of
102-straight games started behind the plate end as he was given the
day off for sophomore Jacob Ferreira (Westport,
Mass./Bishop Stang).
Sophomore Jason Ten Eyck
(Miramar, Fla.) led a Lynn offense which hit five Franklin
Pierce pitchers for 14 hits, going 4-for-5 at the plate with a pair
of doubles, a stolen base, three runs scored and an RBI. Senior
Nicolas Boisvert (Laval, Quebec) hit 3-5 with a
double, home run, stolen base, four runs scored and RBI, while
freshman Kyle Holloway (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) was
2-4 with two doubles, a run scored and four RBI. Junior Joe
Arminio (Point Pleasant, N.J.) finished 3-4 with a stolen
base, two runs scored and an RBI.
Junior righthander Craig
Sheets (Hollywood, Fla.) picked up the win (2-1) in
relief, allowing just a hit with one walk over the final 2.2
innings. Knights junior righthander Chris Snow (Boca Raton,
Fla.) went the first five innings and yielded five runs,
four earned, on five hits with three strikeouts and a
walk.
Sophomore Cliff Hicks
(Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack) led Franklin Pierce, hitting
3-for-5 with a double, home run and RBI. Junior Kevin
Renaud (Southbridge, Mass./Southbridge) was 1-2 with a
pair of walks and three RBI, homering in his third-straight game.
Senior Cory Shepherd (Worcester, Mass./Burncoat)
finished 1-3 with an RBI.
Freshman Tyler Sykes
(Sterling, Mass./St. Peter-Marian) suffered the loss (0-1)
in relief, allowing five runs, four earned, on three hits and three
walks over two innings. Sophomore lefthander Jeff Paulsen
(Framingham, Mass./Framingham), making his second start in
three days, yielded five earned runs on five hits with two walks
and no strikeouts in 2.2 innings.
After Franklin Pierce knotted the
score at 6-6 with a single run in the top of the seventh, Lynn
answered with five in the home half to regain the lead and break
the game open. With one out and runners on second and third, the
Ravens intentionally walked Arminio to set up a force at every
base. Sophomore Gabe MacDougall (Oak Run, Calif.)
drew a controversial bases loaded walk to bring in the go-ahead
run. Holloway followed with a two-run double to chase Sykes, and
the Knights would add two more runs on a passed ball and a
sacrifice fly. The latter coming when Kevin Renaud pulled what
would have been a three-run homer by sophomore Steven
Somers (Lauderhill, Fla.) back from behind the fence.
Lynn added some insurance with
three more in the eighth as Boisvert and Ten Eyck led off the
inning with back-to-back doubles. Ten Eyck later scored when junior
Dan Rovetto (Davie, Fla.) reached on an error.
Rovetto later scored on a sac fly from MacDougall to round out the
scoring.
Franklin Pierce put Lynn in a 4-0
hole after an inning and a half with a pair of runs in each of the
Ravens first two at bats. Junior Keith Renaud (Southbridge,
Mass./Southbridge) placed a two-out single through the
left side, before twin brother Kevin followed with his fourth home
run of the season to left in the first. In the second, senior
Jake Christman (Newton, Mass./Newton South)
singled and Ferreira followed with a double. Christman scored on a
sacrifice fly by Shepherd and Ferreira scored when senior
Vinny Pennell (Spencer, Mass./David Prouty)
reached on an error.
Lynn answered with a single run in
the home half of the second as MacDougall led off with a double and
later scored on a sac fly foul out by sophomore Ricardo
Gerena (Coral Springs, Fla.). The Knights took their first
lead with four in the third, sparked by an RBI double down the
right field line by Arminio and capped by a two-run double to left
center by Holloway.
Franklin Pierce squandered a big
scoring chance as it came away with just a single run after loading
the bases with none out in the top of the seventh. After Keith
Renaud struck out for the first out, Kevin Renaud drew a
bases-loaded walk. Sheets entered for the Knights and escaped the
jam by getting a fielder's choice, knocking down a run at the
plate, and foul pop out.
Franklin Pierce (13-2, 0-0 NE-10)
is right back in action tomorrow night when it visits No. 7/15 Nova
Southeastern University at 6 p.m. Lynn (19-11) opens a three-game
Sunshine State Conference series at Barry University on Friday at 6
p.m.
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