Cavers, Brouillard Earn 
NE-10 Honors
Raven battery-mates collect Player, 
Pitcher of the Week accolades

RINDGE, N.H. (April 26, 2004) – Franklin Pierce juniors Eric Cavers (Otisfield, Maine/Oxford Hills) and Keith Brouillard (Westport, Mass./Somerset) have earned weekly baseball honors by the Northeast-10 Conference this afternoon.

            Cavers was named the Northeast-10 Player of the Week, while Brouillard collected NE-10 Pitcher of the Week accolades.            

Cavers, who is named Player of the Week for the first time this season (third career), led the Ravens to an 8-0 week as he batted a team-best .543 (19-35) with team-high totals of 13 runs scored, seven doubles, two triples, two home runs and 11 RBI to go with five stolen bases on as many attempts. He also posted a 1.029 slugging and .610 on-base percentages for the week. Behind the plate, Cavers was error-free in 66 chances, gunned down four of ten potential base-stealers and picked off three other base runners for the week.

            Cavers hit .500 (6-12) with four runs scored, a double, triple, home run, two steals and two RBI in a key three-game weekend series sweep of Stonehill College. In Saturday’s doubleheader sweep of the Chieftains, he hit for the cycle on the afternoon, as he was a combined 5-for-8 with a double, triple, home run and two RBI. He was 1-4 in Sunday’s 1-0 victory at Stonehill and held on to the ball in a collision at the plate for a game-ending double play.

            In the Ravens three-game midweek series sweep of Southern New Hampshire, Cavers hit .615 (8-13) with seven runs scored, five doubles, a home run, three stolen bases and seven RBI. He was also a combined 5-for-10 with a double, homer, two runs scored and two RBI in a doubleheader sweep of Merrimack to open the week.

            Cavers’ current team season-best 12-game hitting streak coincides with Franklin Pierce’s program-record 12-game winning streak. Over that stretch, Cavers is hitting .528 (28-53) with 17 runs scored, ten doubles, two triples, two home runs, five stolen bases and 14 RBI. He is also slugging .906 with a .590 on-base percentage.

            Cavers has taken over the Northeast-10 Conference lead with a .390 (60-154) batting average, .623 slugging percentage, .475 on-base percentage, 43 runs scored and 60 hits. He ranks second in the NE-10 in doubles (13) and triples (4) while ranking fourth in home runs (5), sixth in stolen bases (16) and tenth in RBI (29) this season.

            Cavers’ 60 hits are currently good for eighth on the program’s single-season list, while his .390 batting average, .623 slugging percentage and 43 runs scored rank seventh, his four triples fourth and his 16 steals third.

            Among career leaders at the College, Cavers ranks first with 51 career stolen bases and 40 doubles, third with seven triples, fifth with 123 runs scored, sixth with 173 hits, eighth with 13 home runs and ninth with 88 RBI. He has also played a record 138 consecutive games, with all but 20 of those games at catcher, including a streak of 92-straight behind the plate.            

Brouillard earned the first Pitcher of the Week award of his career after posting a pair of complete-game victories for the Ravens last week. Brouillard was 2-0 with a 1.00 ERA and 13 strikeouts while limiting opposing batters to a .145 batting average.

            Brouillard matched a program record with his eighth-straight winning decision as he fired a three-hit shutout with seven strikeouts to lead the Ravens to a 1-0 victory at Stonehill on Sunday. He became the first pitcher in program history to open a season 7-0 with a complete-game win over Southern New Hampshire on Tuesday as he allowed just two earned runs on six hits with six strikeouts while pitching on three days rest.

            Brouillard has stepped up as a prominent piece of the Franklin Pierce rotation this season and leads the staff with an 8-0 record, a save, a 1.91 ERA and five complete games to go with 51 strikeouts and just 12 walks over 66 innings of work over 11 appearances (seven starts). Opposing batters are hitting a mere .195 against him this season. He leads the Northeast-10 in wins, ranks fourth in opposing batting average, fifth in ERA, sixth in innings pitched and seventh in fewest walks allowed.

            Among single-season leaders at the College, Brouillard is on pace to set a new ERA mark, while his win total is tied for fourth and his five complete games are tied for ninth all-time.

            Franklin Pierce (25-16, 20-4 NE-10) crept back into the national scene this week as it is ranked No. 25 in this week’s National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II poll and 30^th in this week’s Collegiate Baseball magazine Division II rankings. The Ravens return to action tomorrow afternoon when it begins a key home-and-home series with No. 21 Bryant College in Smithfield, R.I., at 3:30 p.m. The two teams will play in Rindge on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.