#6/8 Franklin Pierce Rolls Past Nova Southeastern, 13-0
Adams, Rivers and Anderson
power Ravens past Sharks
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (March 19, 2008) – Franklin
Pierce University, ranked fourth in this week’s
pingbaseball.com Division II poll, sixth in the National Collegiate
Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) poll and eighth in the
Collegiate Baseball magazine rankings, rebounded from a
tough loss on Tuesday with a 13-0 victory over Nova Southeastern
University at NSU Sports Complex tonight.
Eight of Franklin Pierce’s 14 hits went for extra bases,
including three home runs on the night. The Ravens were led by
senior Matt Anderson (Medford, Mass./Medford), who
hit 4-for-5 with a double, home run, three runs scored and two RBI.
Sophomore Kevin Rivers (Bristol, Conn./Bristol
Eastern) was 4-5 with a double, two runs scored and three
RBI, while senior Kevin Renaud (Southbridge,
Mass./Southbridge) finished 2-4 with a triple and two runs
scored. Junior Cliff Hicks (Merrimack,
N.H./Merrimack) and freshman Derek Ingui
(Sterling, Mass.) each added a home run for the
Ravens.
Junior Mike Adams (Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard
Park) improved to 3-0 on the season with seven innings of
four-hit shutout work, striking out five and walking two.
Freshman David Robinson (Bunnell, Fla.) was the lone Nova
Southeastern batter with multiple hits, finishing 2-for-3. Freshman
Ryan Whelan (Boca Raton, Fla.) suffered the loss for the Sharks,
yielding six earned runs on six hits with two walks and six
strikeouts over 3.2 innings.
Franklin Pierce struck with four runs in the first inning, with
the big hit a three run home run by Hicks. The Ravens added solo
runs in the third and fourth innings before scoring two more on a
two run homer by Anderson in the top of the seventh. The scoring
continued with an RBI triple by Jake Christman (Newton,
Mass./Newton South) and a two run homer by Ingui, before
Rivers closed out the six-run frame with an RBI single by Rivers.
Franklin Pierce tacked on an insurance run in the top of the eighth
inning.
Franklin Pierce (11-2, 0-0 NE-10) is back in action tomorrow when
it opens a two game set against Palm Beach Atlantic University at 7
p.m. Nova Southeastern (16-11, 3-1 SSC) hosts Lynn University on
Friday at 6 p.m.