Fournier
Named Fournier has been named a Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week and has also collected Pitcher of the Week honors from the Northeast-10. He the only non-Division I player among the five selected by Collegiate Baseball magazine for national honors and has earned NE-10 Pitcher of the Week honors for the second time this season.
Fournier
tossed the fourth no-hitter in program history to lead Franklin Pierce
to a key 8-1 victory over Southern Connecticut State University last
Tuesday. He struck out a career-best 18 Southern Connecticut batters,
just two shy of the program record of 20 strikeouts set by Justin
Blood in April 2001, and allowed just two balls out of the infield all
afternoon. Fournier’s no-hitter is Franklin Pierce’s first since
Chris Shank’s season-opening no-hitter on March 9, 2002. It also
marks the first no-hitter for a Ravens pitcher against a Division II
opponent in program history.
Fournier is 3-1 this spring with a 2.67 ERA, a Conference-best
45 strikeouts and 15 walks in 27.0 innings over five appearances, four
starts, for Franklin Pierce. Opposing batters are hitting a mere .114
against him this spring. Fournier has posted a 13-5 career record with
a 2.94 ERA, 165 strikeouts (5th in program history) and 84
walks in 131.2 career innings pitched. Franklin Pierce (17-7, 2-3 NE-10), ranked No. 25 in this week’s Collegiate Baseball magazine Division II poll, is back in action tomorrow afternoon when it visits Bryant University at 3:30 p.m. Fournier is slated to make the start in that contest. The Ravens return home on Thursday when it hosts Bryant at 3:30 p.m. |
