Shank and Loiseau
to Represent FP
at Fenway Park
Ravens to participate in 28th annual
NEIBCA All-Star Game
RINDGE, N.H. (May 28, 2002)
- Two members of the 2002 ECAC Division II Champion Franklin Pierce University
baseball team will participate in the 28th
annual New England Intercollegiate Baseball Coaches Association
(NEIBCA) College All-Star Game at historic Fenway Park,
in Boston, on Thursday.
Senior shortstop Scott Loiseau
(Worcester, Mass./St. Peter Marian) and junior right-hander
Chris Shank (Westminster, Mass./Oakmont Regional)
will represent FP
as part of the College Division (Divisions
II & III) All-Star team that will battle the University
Division (Division I) All-Stars.
Senior Scott Loiseau has
been named to the All-Star game for the first time
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Loiseau, who earned second-team All-Northeast
Region and first team All-Northeast-10 honors this season,
has been named to the All-Star game for the first time.
He finished his senior year with a .351 (66-188) batting
average, 46 runs scored, 11 doubles, three triples, 11 homeruns
(T-10th NE-10), 20 multi-hit games and 30 RBIs. Loiseau’s
hit total is good for third all-time and he ranks third
in runs, second in at bats and fifth in homers on the program’s
single season lists.
Loiseau has his named etched all
over the FP
record books. He holds the school’s career
records for games played (171 of a possible 175), at bats
(703), hits (246), runs scored (195) and stolen bases (32).
Loiseau’s string of 133 consecutive games played is also
a school record as is his 21-game hitting streak dating
back to last season that was extended earlier this spring.
His 18 career homers is good for fifth all-time, his nine
career triples ranks second as does his 37 career doubles,
while his 104 career RBIs is tied for second all-time.
Junior Chris Shank will
also be making his first NEIBCA All-Star game appearance |
Shank, the Northeast-10 Conference’s
Pitcher of the Year and All-Region and All-Conference first
team pick, will also be making his first NEIBCA All-Star
game appearance. The junior right-hander ranks first in
the Conference with 108 strikeouts, a .205 opponent batting
average and 93.1 innings pitched this spring - all of which
are new single-season records at the school.
Shank posted a 9-2 record this spring
with a 2.60 ERA to go along with the 108 strikeouts and
just 25 walks in 93.1 innings. He ranks second among Conference
leaders in wins, is third in ERA and fifth with four pickoffs.
Shank also ranks among NCAA Division II leaders with 10.41
strikeouts per nine innings and ERA.
Shank, named NE-10 Pitcher of the
Week three times this year and Player of the Week once,
was also named Most Outstanding Player at the 2002 ECAC
Championship last week. He opened the spring by throwing
the first season-opening no-hitter in program history (second
overall) against Framingham State College on March 9. This
season, Shank became the all-time leader at the College
in wins (20), complete games (17) and innings (243.2) to
go along with a school-record 3.58 career earned run average.
His 235 strikeouts matched the program record set by former
Ravens left-hander Justin Blood from 1999-2001.
Shank also posted a .286 batting
average (24-84) with 20 runs scored, three doubles, seven
homeruns and 23 RBIs at the plate.
FP
(31-17, 22-10 NE-10) wrapped
up the regular season with the second-best record in the
Northeast-10 Conference, establishing new school records
for overall and Conference victories and captured its first
ECAC Championship in program history.