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Franklin Pierce Drops RINDGE,
N.H. (April 13, 2006) –
Franklin Pierce, ranked 18th in this week’s National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II poll and
22nd in Collegiate Baseball magazine’s poll,
answered Tuesday’s 5-2 setback at 30th-ranked UMass
Lowell with a resounding 13-5 victory over the River Hawks in
Northeast-10 Conference baseball action at Dr. Arthur and Martha
Pappas Field this afternoon.
Franklin Pierce trailed 3-0 after a half inning and 4-3 in the
middle of the fifth before taking its first lead with four runs in the
bottom of the fifth. The Ravens banged out 13 hits, including five for
extra bases and two home runs. Freshman Scott Savastano (Plymouth, Mass./Plymouth North) led the Ravens offense as he hit 4-for-4 with a home run, stolen base, two runs scored and two RBI. Senior All-American Bryan Duplissie (East Swanzey, N.H./Monadnock Regional) was 2-3 with a double, homer, two RBI and three runs scored, while classmate Mike Chambers (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) was 1-3 with a stolen base and three RBI. Sophomore Matt Anderson (Medford, Mass./Medford) chipped in by going 1-4 with two RBI.
Junior
right-hander Shane Presutti (Southbridge, Mass./Southbridge)
picked up his sixth win of the season (6-0), allowing five runs, three
earned, on five hits with nine strikeouts and four walks over eight
innings.
Junior Erik Willett (Salisbury, Mass./Triton Regional)
suffered the loss (0-2), surrendering four earned runs on two hits and
two walks in two-thirds of an inning of work in relief of starter Joe
Malzone (Leominster, Mass./Leominster). Malzone allowed three
runs, two earned, on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks
over the first 3.2 innings.
Junior Patrick Wilson (Dracut, Mass./Bishop Guertin)
was 1-for-3 at the plate for the River Hawks with a double and RBI.
Junior Steve Paddock (Milford, Mass./Milford) was 1-5
with a home run, stolen base and two runs scored.
UMass Lowell opened the scoring with three in the first as
Wilson followed a one-out single by sophomore Tim Manton
(Swansea, Mass./Joseph Case) with an RBI double off the wall
in the left center. With runners on second and third, a passed ball
allowed Wilson to score and Anderson’s throw went past the pitcher
covering home to allow the third run to score. Franklin Pierce knotted the score in the second. Duplissie was hit by a Malzone pitch to leadoff the inning, and later scored on a throwing error after Pennell reached with a bunt single to load the bases. A sacrifice fly brought home a second run, before the tying run scored on a ground out.
The
River Hawks forged ahead again in the fifth as junior Sean Patno
(Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) singled to lead off the inning
and later scored on an error. The Ravens erupted with four in the home
half to take the lead for good. Willett walked the first two batters
of the inning before Chambers belted a double to the gap in left
center to drive them in. Duplissie followed with a bloop double down
the line in right to score Chambers, before Savastano greeted UML’s
third reliever with an RBI single up the middle.
Duplissie and Savastano smacked back-to-back homers with two
out in the seventh to give Franklin Pierce some more breathing room
(9-4). Paddock homered for UML in the eighth to pull a run back, but
the Ravens scored four more in the home half to put the game away.
Anderson and senior Elliott Shea (Jaffrey, N.H./Conant)
notched RBI singles, while Chambers and junior Garrett Olson
(Norway, Maine/Oxford Hills) each added sacrifice flies. |
