Lerud Three-Run Blast Leads Baseball To 5-2 Victory At Stonehill
Cote strikes out eight over seven innings
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Steve Carr went 3-for-4 with a triple and scored a run at Stonehill
on Tuesday afternoon.EASTON, Mass. (April 28, 2009) –
Senior left fielder Ted Lerud
(Hampden, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) clubbed a three-run
home run in the third inning which proved to be the difference on
Tuesday afternoon as the Franklin Pierce University baseball team
posted a 5-2 victory over Stonehill in Northeast-10 Conference play
at Lou Gorman Field.
Franklin Pierce opened the scoring with three runs in the top of
the first inning and took a lead it would never relinquish.
Sophomore designated hitter Derek
Ingui (Sterling, Mass./Wachusett Regional) led off the game,
worked a walk and moved to second on a single to center field by
freshman catcher Mike Dowd (East
Bridgewater, Mass./Cardinal Spellman). Both runners would
score two batters later on the three-run blast down the left-field
line by Lerud, who picked up his fifth home run of the season.
Stonehill got one run back in the bottom half of the first to cut
the lead to 3-1. Junior shortstop Mitch Davis (Bow, N.H./Bow) led
off with a walk and came all the way around to score on an RBI
double into the left-center field gap by sophomore second baseman
Scott Hackett (Bangor, Maine/Bangor).
Franklin Pierce regained the three-run lead at 4-1 with a run in
the top of the second inning. Junior second baseman Cody Kauffman (Blue Bell, Pa./Univ. of
Massachusetts) led off with a walk, moved to second on a
passed ball and scored two batters later on a double to left field
by Ingui.
The Ravens pushed the lead as high as 5-1 with a run in the top of
the fourth inning. Senior first baseman Steve Carr (Nahant, Mass./Lake City CC)
led off, belted a triple to right field and scored when Kauffman
followed with an RBI single to left.
Stonehill created the 5-2 final with a run in the home half of the
fourth. Sophomore first baseman Angelo Bruno (Norwalk,
Conn./Norwalk) led off with a double to center field, moved to
third on a groundout and scored on an RBI single through the left
side of the infield by freshman right fielder Kyle Shepard
(Boxford, Mass./Masconomet).
Senior left-hander Tom Cote
(Swanzey, N.H./Univ. of Massachusetts) started, threw seven
innings and picked up the win (8-2) on the mound for Franklin
Pierce. He allowed two runs on six hits, walked two and struck out
eight. In the first inning, Cote had a scoreless streak of 30.1
innings snapped. Sophomore right-hander Rob Nicholas (Northboro, Mass./Algonquin
Regional) came in with one out and a runner on first in the
ninth, induced a double-play ball and struck out the next batter to
pick up his seventh save of the season.
Freshman left-hander Eric Haughn (Pembroke, Mass./Pembroke) started
and took the loss (2-4) for Stonehill. In 6.1 innings on the hill,
he surrendered five runs on eight hits, walked three and struck out
four.
The Ravens (29-15, 20-6 Northeast-10) return to the field on
Thursday, April 30, when they return home to host Stonehill in a
Northeast-10 Conference contest. First pitch is scheduled for 7
p.m. at Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas Field in Rindge, N.H., and the
game will be broadcast on WEEI 93.5 FM Keene. Stonehill (21-20,
11-14 Northeast-10) returns to action on April 29 at Merrimack.