Ingui Named NE-10 Freshman of the Week
Sterling, Mass., native hit .429 with a homer and four RBI as the Ravens went 3-1

RINDGE, N.H. (March 24, 2008) – Freshman Derek Ingui (Sterling, Mass./University of Tampa) of the Franklin Pierce University baseball team was named the Northeast-10 Conference Freshman of the Week, the conference announced on Monday afternoon.

Ingui hit a combined .429 (9-for-21) with four runs scored, a home run and four runs batted in as the Ravens won three of their four games last week. He began the week with a 3-for-6 effort against Lynn University, then followed up with his first collegiate home run in a win over Nova Southeastern University on Wednesday.

Ingui then hit .500 (5-for-10) in his final two games of the week, a two-day sweep of Palm Beach Atlantic University  The designated hitter went 2-for-6 in Thursday’s win and 3-for-4 in Friday’s win, while adding a run scored and an RBI in each game.

Franklin Pierce (13-2, 0-0 NE-10), ranked fifth in this week’s pingbaseball.com Div. II poll, sixth in the latest NCBWA rankings and eighth in this week’s Collegiate Baseball magazine poll, begins its Northeast-10 Conference schedule this week, as the Ravens start a three-game series with Southern Connecticut State University today at 3:30 p.m. in New Haven, Conn.