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Sweeps Franklin Pierce SMITHFIELD, R.I. (April 12, 2003) - The Franklin Pierce softball team suffered back-to-back losses, falling to Bryant College 8-1 and 2-0, in Northeast-10 Conference softball action at the Bryant Softball Complex this afternoon. The win is the seventh straight for the Bulldogs. Sophomore Deirdre Kittredge led the Bulldogs hitting 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI. Junior Katie Kelley went 2-3 with two runs scored and an RBI, while freshman Jordan Dargon hit 2-2 with a run and RBI. Franklin Pierce junior Michelle Derochers (Billerica, Mass./Billerica) scored the Ravens lone run and finished hitting 1-3. Classmate Lauren Chenausky (Athol, Mass./Athol) went 1-2 with an RBI. Kittredge helped the Bulldogs take the early lead as she knocked an RBI double and scored Kelley in her first at bat. Junior Nicole Keene scored moments later when she was singled in by Dargon to help the Bulldogs go up by two. The Ravens responded with their only run of the game in the top of the fourth as Chenausky doubled to left and scored Derochers to cut the Bryant lead in half. The Bulldogs put away the game for good in the bottom of the frame as they capitalized on three Franklin Pierce errors to go up by three runs. Bryant went on to score three more runs in the final two innings to clinch the 8-1 win in game one. Sophomore Diane Cummings improved to 4-4 on the season as she allowed just one earned run on five hits, walked one and struck out six in a complete game effort. Sophomore Christine Boutiette (Cumberland, R.I./Cumberland) suffered the loss as she allowed five earned runs on 11 hits, walked seven and struck out two in six innings of work.
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Boutiette (2-1) Keene, last week's Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Week, fired a three-hit shutout to lead the Bulldogs to a 2-0 win in game two. Keene allowed no runs, walked one and struck out three to record her fifth win of the season. Sophomore Carly Muise went 2-3 with an RBI to lead the Bulldog offense. Senior Lindsay Schoolcraft also hit 2-3, while junior Katie Slack hit 1-3 with a pair of runs scored. Kelley opened up the scoring in the bottom of the second as she drove in what would prove to be the gamewinning run after grounding out and bring home Slack to give the Bulldogs the one run lead. Muise scored the insurance run two innings later, singling in Slack to make the final Bryant 2, Franklin Pierce 0. Sophomore Courtney Lemoie (Lincoln, R.I./Lincoln) took the loss, allowing two runs, both earned, on six hits, walking two and striking out one.
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Keene (5-3) Franklin Pierce (8-8-1, 0-3-1 NE-10) returns to action tomorrow afternoon, as it travels to Merrimack College for a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader starting at noon. Bryant (9-7, 7-1 NE-10) next hosts Saint Anselm College tomorrow in a Conference doubleheader at 1 p.m. |
