Junior Dan Close went
4-6 with two homeruns, three runs scored and a season-high
six RBIs to lead the Ravens
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FP
Rallies from
Early Deficit to Defeat Greyhounds,
19-12
Ravens use ten-straight unearned runs
to erase early 6-0 lead
RINDGE, N.H. (April 17, 2002)
- Franklin Pierce University
used ten-straight unearned runs
in the fourth and fifth innings to help erase an early 6-0
deficit and go on to post a 19-12 victory over Assumption
College in a Northeast-10 Conference baseball slugfest at
Crystal Field this afternoon.
The top four batters in the Franklin
Pierce lineup led the offense as they hit a combined 15-for-23
with four homeruns, three doubles, 16 runs scored and 17
RBIs in the contest. Junior rightfielder Dan Close
(Leominster, Mass./Leominster) led the way with
a 4-6 effort, two homers, three runs scored and a season-high
six RBIs. Classmate Paul McAuliffe (Foxboro, Mass./Foxboro)
continues to swing a hot bat as he finished 4-6 with two
doubles, three runs scored and five RBIs.
Senior shortstop Scott Loiseau
(Worcester, Mass./St. Peter Marian) was 3-5 with
a homer, five runs scored and four RBIs from the leadoff
spot, while sophomore Dante Blancarte (Amesbury, Mass./Amesbury)
was 4-6 with a double, a homer, two runs scored and two
RBIs.
Sophomore Greg Basile
earned his second win of the season in relief
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Sophomore Greg Basile (Suffield,
Conn./Suffield) earned his second win of the season
(2-0) in relief as he held FP
in the game, allowing three earned runs on five hits
with two strikeouts and a walk in three innings of work.
Freshman Neil Harrington led Assumption
with a 4-5 effort at the plate, including a homerun, three
runs scored and three RBIs. Junior Mike Prior hit 3-5 with
his first homerun of the season, two runs scored and four
RBIs.
Senior Jay Laganelli suffered the
loss as he yielded nine runs, just three earned, on 11 hits
with three strikeouts and a walk in 3.1 innings.
Assumption jumped on FP
starter
Matt Weagle (Charlton, Mass./Shepherd Hill)
for six runs in the second inning, with Prior belting a
three-run homer to spark the frame. Senior Bill Bertrand
chipped in an RBI double.
FP
closed the gap to 6-3 with a
single run in the second as Blancarte doubled, advanced
to third and later scored on two wild pitches. Things could
have been worse in the third as the Ravens loaded the bases,
but came away with just a pair. McAuliffe singled in senior
Eric Burney (Rockville, Conn./Rockville),
who led off the frame with a single. Blancarte hit into
a rally-killing double play with no outs that scored one
run.
The Ravens erupted in the fourth
with six unearned runs as FP
loaded the bases on two errors
and a walk after Laganelli retired the leadoff batter. Loiseau
and McAuliffe each laced two run singles and Close capped
the inning off with a two-run homer.
After Assumption closed the gap to
9-8 in the top of the fifth, FP
scored four more unearned
runs off reliever Joe Sposato in the bottom of the frame.
McAuliffe laced an RBI double to spark the inning, Close
added an RBI single and Blancarte capped the frame with
a two-run homer.
The Ravens broke the game open in
the seventh with four runs with three coming off Close’s
second homerun of the afternoon.
FP
(15-13, 9-7 NE-10) returns to
action tomorrow afternoon when it hosts Fitchburg State
College in a non-conference battle at 3:30 p.m. Assumption
(7-20, 4-13 NE-10) hosts Bryant College on Friday at 3:30
p.m.