#30 Franklin Pierce Rolls Past Saint Rose, 12-2
Ravens round out regular season with second-straight commanding win, next up NE-10 Championships
RINDGE, N.H. (May 5, 2005) - Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 30 in Collegiate Baseball magazine's Division II poll, scored double-figure runs for the third time in four games as it rounded out the regular season with a commanding 12-2 victory over the College of Saint Rose in Northeast-10 Conference baseball action at Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas Field this afternoon.
Franklin Pierce (27-12, 21-9 NE-10) is now off until next Friday, May 13, when the Northeast-10 Baseball Championships open at LeLachuer Park in Lowell, Mass. The Ravens have sewn up the No. 2 seed and will play the winner of a first round game on Wednesday between two teams to be determined based on regular season action over the weekend. Saint Rose (23-23, 14-13 NE-10) continues its quest to lock up one of six playoff spots when it travels to Merrimack College tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Sophomore third baseman Garrett Olson (Norway, Maine/Oxford Hills) matched a pair of school records as he belted a pair of home runs and totaled six RBI in a 2-for-5 afternoon at the plate for Franklin Pierce, which followed up a 20-hit outing yesterday with 16 hits today.
Sophomore Vinny Pennell (Spencer, Mass./David Prouty) was 3-5 with a pair of doubles and three RBI for the Ravens, while junior Shawn Hayes (Charlton, Mass./Holy Name) hit 4-5 with a pair of stolen bases and three runs scored. Freshman Matt Anderson (Medford, Mass./Medford) was 2-3 with two RBI, while sophomore Kim Hart (Gorham, Maine/Gorham) finished 2-3 with a double and RBI.
Senior right-hander Bryan Borowski (Clarksburg, Mass./Drury) earned the win (6-1) on the mound for Franklin Pierce in the final regular season home start of his career. He allowed just the two earned runs on six hits with eight strikeouts and four walks over 7.1 innings of work.
Senior David Stringham (Schenectady, N.Y./Schenectady) was the lone Saint Rose batter with multiple hits, going 2-for-4 with a double and run scored. Classmate Jean-Francois DuFour (Beauharnois, Quebec) was 1-3 with an RBI, while freshman Casey Deuel (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury) finished 1-2 after entering the game as a reserve.
Freshman right-hander Jeremiah St. Louis (Tupper Lake, N.Y./Tupper Lake) was handed just his second loss of the season (6-2) as he was hit for five runs, four earned, on five hits with a strikeout and a walk over four and two-thirds innings.
Franklin Pierce opened the scoring with a single run in the second as Hayes singled to center, stole second and advanced to third on a groundout before scoring on Hart's double to right center. The Ravens doubled their advantage in the fourth as Hayes again singled and stole second before scoring on a Pennell double to left center.
Olson's first three-run homer of the day, down the leftfield line, put Franklin Pierce up 5-0 before Saint Rose got on the board in the sixth. The Golden Knights loaded the bases with one out, but scored just twice as Borowski escaped the jam with minimal damage. DuFour collected an RBI single through the left side before senior Anthony DiTroia (Queens, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.
Franklin Pierce quickly responded by scoring a run in the home half of the sixth as Pennell singled and scored on an Anderson hit up the middle. The Ravens broke the game open with six in the seventh, sparked by Olson's second three-run homer of the day (9th HR of the season) to right center. Pennell collected a two-run double and Anderson registered his second RBI single of the day in the frame as well.