Three Franklin Pierce Student-Athletes Earn NE-10 Weekly Honors

Baillargeon earns Player and Freshman of the Week honors in women’s lacrosse
Renaud named Player of the Week, Maloney Pitcher of the Week for baseball

RINDGE, N.H. (April 15, 2008) – Three Franklin Pierce student-athletes have earned weekly honors from the Northeast-10 Conference.

Franklin Pierce freshman Jordan Baillargeon (Westfield, Mass./Westfield) earned Player and Freshman of the Week for women’s lacrosse, while senior Kevin Renaud (Southbridge, Mass./ Southbridge) was named Player of the Week and sophomore Brian Maloney (Brockton, Mass./Brockton) collected Pitcher of the Week honors in baseball.

Baillargeon more than doubled her season totals by netting 15 goals and assisting on four for 19 points in three games for Franklin Pierce last week. She enjoyed a record-setting performance in Thursday’s 25-20 win over Norwich University, as Baillargeon scored ten goals and added three assists for 13 points. Her point total set a new school record for points in a game, surpassing the 12 points of Jami Ladakakos ’99 against Castleton State College on April 21, 1999, and also matched the fifth highest single-game total in NCAA Division II history. The ten goals are the second-highest single-game total in program history and are tied for fourth all-time in DII, only two behind the national-record 12 goals Ladakakos recorded against Castleton.

Baillargeon also scored three goals against Saint Anselm College on Tuesday and ended the week with two goals and an assist at 9^th-ranked University of New Haven on Saturday.

In ten starts this season, Baillargeon currently ranks second on the team in both goals and points with her 27 goals and four assists for 31 points. She has greatly increased her production as of late, as 21 of her goals and all four of her assists have come in the last team’s five matches.

Franklin Pierce (2-9, 0-6 NE-10) returns to action on Wednesday evening, as the Ravens welcome conference foe Merrimack College to Sodexho Field at 6 p.m.

RENAUD

Renaud earns Player of the Week honors for the first time this season (third career) after batting .407 (11-for-27) with seven runs scored, three doubles, two home runs and nine RBI in a 4-3 week for Franklin Pierce’s nationally-ranked baseball team. He slugged .741, posted a .452 on-base percentage and was successful on all three stolen base attempts for the week.

Renaud started the week by hitting 3-for-4 with a double, two stolen bases, two runs scored and three RBI in Franklin Pierce’s 8-3 win over Merrimack College. In Tuesday’s 10-2 victory over UMass Lowell, he was 2-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored and two RBI. Renaud finished the week by batting a combined 5-for-10 with two doubles, a home run, stolen base, three runs scored and three RBI in the Ravens three-game weekend series with Bentley College. In Sunday’s 5-2 win, he hit 2-for-4 with a double, run scored and RBI.

Renaud, an All-Region outfielder as a junior for Franklin Pierce, has started all 31 games for the Ravens in his senior season. He is batting .339 (7^th NE-10) with 27 runs scored, nine doubles (6^th), two triples, two home runs, a team-best 14 stolen bases (5^th) and 30 RBI (1^st). He is slugging .509 (7^th) to go with a .419 on-base percentage (9^th) and leads the team with 13 multiple-hit games.

In two seasons at Franklin Pierce since transferring from Becker College with twin brother Keith Renaud, a tenth round draft choice of the Seattle Mariners last June, Kevin Renaud has started all 91 games and posted a .353 batting average, 80 runs scored, 31 doubles, eight triples, 12 home runs, 95 RBI and 29 stolen bases.

Maloney has earned Pitcher of the Week honors from the NE-10 for the first time after posting a 2-0 record and 2.08 ERA with 16 strikeouts in 13 innings of work over two starts for Franklin Pierce last week, holding opposing batters to just six hits (.143 average). He allowed two earned runs on four hits with seven strikeouts and two walks over six innings in Tuesday’s 10-2 win over UMass Lowell. He yielded two runs, just one earned, while scattering two hits over seven innings with nine strikeouts in Sunday’s 5-2 victory at Bentley.

Maloney, a transfer from UMass Dartmouth, has made eight appearances, six starts, in his first season at Franklin Pierce. He is 5-0 (3^rd NE-10 with a 2.68 earned run average, 52 strikeouts (2^nd) and 19 walks over 40.1 innings, holding opposing batters to a .186 average (7^th). Maloney made six starts at UMD in 2007 and posted a 2-3 record and 3.63 ERA with 37 strikeouts in 34.2 innings pitched.

Franklin Pierce (24-7, 9-5 NE-10), ranked eighth in this week’s pingbaseball.com NCAA Division II poll and 16^th in the Collegiate Baseball magazine rankings, is back in action this afternoon at American International College at 3:30 p.m. The Ravens next home game is Thursday, when they host AIC at 3:30 p.m.