Simmons,
Savastano RINDGE,
N.H. (March 20, 2006) –
Two Franklin Pierce freshmen were recognized for their efforts by the
Northeast-10 Conference on Monday. Dixon
Simmons (Narragansett, R.I./Bishop Hendricken)
was named the NE-10’s Player and Freshman of the Week for men’s
tennis, while Scott
Savastano (Plymouth, Mass./Plymouth North)
earned Freshman of the Week honors in baseball.
Simmons, who earns his first Player of the Week honor and second
Freshman of the Week award, led Franklin Pierce to an 8-1 victory over
Saint Anselm College in its lone match of the week. Simmons notched a
6-1, 6-0 victory at No. 1 singles after teaming with sophomore Austin
Gardella (Norwalk, Conn./Norwalk)
for an 8-4 win at No. 1 doubles.
Simmons is a perfect combined 4-0 through Franklin Pierce’s
first two matches of the season. He has collected two wins at No. 1
singles and teamed with Gardella for two doubles victories. Franklin Pierce (1-1, 1-1 NE-10) is back in action on Saturday when it visits Southern New Hampshire University at 10 a.m.
Savastano
earns his fourth Freshman of the Week honor of the season after leading
the No. 7-ranked Franklin Pierce baseball team to a pair of doubleheader
sweeps over the weekend. He hit a combined 9-for-15 (.600) over the four
games with five runs scored, two doubles, a triple, stolen base and five
RBI. He slugged .867 for the weekend, posted a .625 on-base percentage
and was error free in seven chances at third base.
Savastano was 3-for-5 with a stolen base in game one of the
Ravens doubleheader sweep of Molloy, then hit 3-3 with a double, three
RBI and three runs scored in the nightcap. In the Ravens sweep of
Caldwell on Sunday, he was 1-for-3 with a double, RBI, stolen base and
run scored in game one, then hit 2-4 with a triple, RBI and run scored
in the nightcap.
Savastano, a 33rd round draft pick of the Chicago
White Sox out of high school last June, leads Franklin Pierce with a
.548 (23-for-42) batting average through the first 13 games of his
collegiate career. He has also scored 19 runs and totaled a team-high
six doubles to go with two triples, a home run and ten RBI.
Savastano is slugging a team-high .857 to go with a team-best
.620 on-base percentage and has committed just one error in 24 chances
at third base. He has stolen three bases (on four attempts), recorded
eight multi-hit games (second on the team) and two multi-RBI outings. He
carries a seven-game hitting streak into Tuesday night’s match up with
No. 1 University of Tampa. Savastano is hitting a team-best .542
(13-for-24) with runners on base, over 100 points better then his
closest teammate, and has totaled six two-out RBI (2nd on
team). Franklin Pierce (12-1, 0-0 NE-10), winners of a school-record matching 12-straight and off to its best start in program history, is ranked No. 7 in this week’s Collegiate Baseball magazine Division II poll – its highest regular season ranking in program history. The Ravens are back in action on Tuesday night with a big non-conference battle at No. 1-ranked Tampa at 7 p.m. |
