#6/8 Franklin Pierce Completes Palm Beach Atlantic Sweep, 14-5
Renaud leads Ravens 18-hit
attack with three hits and four RBI
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (March 21, 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, completed a two-game sweep of Palm
Beach Atlantic University with a 14-5 victory to complete their
spring break trip tonight.
Senior Kevin Renaud (Southbridge,
Mass./Southbridge) led Franklin Pierce’s 18-hit
attack, going 3-for-4 with a double, three runs scored and four
RBI. Freshman Derek Ingui (Sterling, Mass.) also
hit 3-for-4 with an RBI and run scored, while sophomore
Kevin Rivers (Bristol, Conn./Bristol Eastern) was
2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI. Junior Steve Carr
(Nahant, Mass.) chipped in two doubles and an RBI, while
freshman Kyle Cabral (New Bedford, Mass./New
Bedford) was 2-4 with two runs scored.
Sophomore Brian Maloney (Brockton, Mass.) picked
up the win, allowing three earned runs on six hits with seven
strikeouts and two walks over 6.1 innings.
Senior Zach Grau (Kalamazoo, Mich.) was the lone Palm Beach
Atlantic batter with multiple hits, finishing 2-for-4 with two
stolen bases, an RBI and run scored. Grau did suffer the loss on
the mound for the Sailfish, yielding 12 runs, eight earned, on 14
hits with a strikeout and two walks over 5.1 innings. Sophomore
Scott Urbanek (Weston, Fla.) was 1-3 with two runs scored.
Franklin Pierce made quick work of Palm Beach Atlantic, scoring
five times in the top of the first. Renaud opened the scoring with
an RBI single, while junior Cliff Hicks (Merrimack,
N.H./Merrimack) delivered a two-run single and senior
Matt Anderson (Medford, Mass./Medford) drove in a
runner as well. Carr capped the scoring in the frame with an RBI
double.
PBA got a run back in the home half of the first with an RBI
single from sophomore Tony Livelsberger (Hanover, Pa.), but
Franklin Pierce broke the game open with seven runs in the middle
innings. Ingui collected an RBI single in the fourth, while the
Ravens scored twice as a result of three Sailfish errors in the
fifth.
Franklin Pierce plated four runs in the sixth. Renaud had a
two-run double and Rivers notched a two-run single in the inning.
The Ravens capped their scoring with two more in the seventh on an
RBI single by sophomore Matt Skeffington (Auburn,
N.H./Pendleton) and a sacrifice fly from Renaud.
Franklin Pierce (13-2, 0-0 NE-10) opens its Northeast-10
Conference schedule on Tuesday, March 25, at Southern Connecticut
State University at 3:30 p.m. The Ravens home opener is slated for
Thursday, March 27, against Southern Connecticut at 3:30 p.m. Palm
Beach Atlantic (8-22) hosts Lynn University on Tuesday at 6 p.m.