#12
Franklin Pierce Blanks MANCHESTER,
N.H. (May 1, 2006) –
Franklin Pierce, ranked 12th in this week’s Collegiate
Baseball magazine Division II coaches poll, posted a 3-0 victory
over Southern New Hampshire University in Northeast-10 Conference
baseball action at Penmen Field this afternoon.
Junior right-hander Arric
Mather (Danville, N.H./Winnacunnet)
tossed a one-hit shutout, striking out ten and walking just one to
collect his eighth win of the season (8-1). Mather yielded a one-out
single in the bottom of the first, and then held Southern New
Hampshire hitless the rest of the way, allowing just two base runners
the rest of the way.
Sophomore Matt
Anderson (Medford, Mass./Medford)
sparked the offense as he hit 2-for-3 with a run scored. Senior Mike
Chambers (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry)
was 2-5 with a run scored, while freshman Scott
Savastano (Plymouth, Mass./Plymouth North)
finished 2-4 with a stolen base. Junior Rob Hennessey (Westford, Mass./Westford Academy) suffered his first loss of the spring (4-1), allowing two earned runs on nine hits and three walks with five strikeouts over 7.1 innings of work. He allowed just one hit over the first four innings.
Senior
Tony
Aucoin (Southbridge, Mass./Southbridge)
had SNHU’s lone hit of the afternoon, finishing 1-for-4.
The game was scoreless until Franklin Pierce broke the deadlock
in the fifth. Junior Vinny
Pennell (Spencer, Mass./David Prouty)
drew a one-out walk, stole second and then scored on a double down the
leftfield line by junior Kim
Hart (Gorham, Maine/Gorham).
The Ravens added an insurance run in the eighth as Chambers led
off with a single, was sacrificed to second and reached third on a
wild pitch before coming home on a single through the left side by
senior All-American Bryan
Duplissie (East Swanzey, N.H./Monadnock Regional)
with one out. Franklin Pierce rounded out the scoring in the ninth as
Anderson led off with a single and later scored on a wild pitch with
one out.
Franklin Pierce (39-9, 24-5 NE-10) is back in action tomorrow
when it resumes its originally forfeited contest at the College of
Saint Rose from Friday. The Golden Knights led 5-2 in the top of the
second when the game was called after the umpires ruled Ravens ejected
head coach Jayson
King
and their starting catcher did not left the field in a timely fashion.
Franklin Pierce appealed the ruling and the game decision was
overturned. The game will be resumed where it left off on Friday. Southern New Hampshire (19-21, 10-18 NE-10) visits Bentley College tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. |
