RINDGE, N.H. (May 6, 2021) -- For the second time in nine days, Saint Michael's traveled to Franklin Pierce University for a baseball doubleheader. For the second time in nine days, the Ravens scored a somewhere in the neighborhood of three dozen runs before the Purple Knights headed back home. Just over a week after scoring 45 runs in a doubleheader against Saint Michael's, Franklin Pierce plated 35 more at Pappas Field on Thursday afternoon, to cruise to a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader sweep, 14-6 and 21-1.

With the wins, Franklin Pierce improves to 17-7 (14-6 NE10), while Saint Michael's falls to 1-22 (1-21 NE10). The Ravens swept the four-game series against the Purple Knights by a combined score of 80-15. Franklin Pierce will close out the regular season on Saturday, with a noon doubleheader at Saint Anselm.

Game 1: Franklin Pierce 14, Saint Michael's 6

Thursday's first game was a seven-inning affair, and Franklin Pierce was held off the board only in the fourth. The Ravens jumped out front immediately, with a five-spot in the bottom of the first, which included a pair of home runs.

With one out, one on and a run already in, senior Jonel Ozuna (New York, N.Y.) turned on a 1-2 pitch and deposited it onto the adjacent Sodexo Field, beyond the right-field fence. Ozuna's team-leading seventh home run of the season was estimated at 385 feet. Two batters later, junior Jake Miller (Waltham, Mass.) went the other way and drove his first career home run an estimated 350 feet to narrowly clear the fence in right-center for the frame's second two-run homer.

The Ravens would go on to add three in the second, as well as two each in the third, fifth and sixth, while Saint Michael's picked up one in the fourth, and then four in the sixth and one in the seventh off the bullpen. Graduate student James Boria (Massapequa, N.Y.) provided Franklin Pierce's third home run of the game in the third, as he clubbed a two-run shot an estimated 360 feet to straightaway left, his third of the season.

Sophomore right-hander Andres Auffant (Center Moriches, N.Y.) took the ball and threw 79 pitches (52 strikes) over the first five innings to pick up the win (4-1). He allowed one run on five hits, walked one, hit two batters and struck out six.

On the other side of the ledger, freshman right-hander Jared Duquette (1-3) gave up a dozen runs (10 earned) on 11 hits over five innings and 117 pitches (64 strikes). He walked four and struck out three.

Game 2: Franklin Pierce 21, Saint Michael's 1

As the first game had, the second game started with five runs in the bottom of the first. Boria provided the inning's key hit, as he went the other way for a two-run double to right-center. Also in the frame, Ozuna roped an RBI double to right, Miller picked up an RBI with a bases-loaded walk and junior Graham Smith (Wilmington, Mass.) dropped down a bunt single to drive in a run.

The Ravens took a 6-0 game and blew it wide open with eight runs in the last of the fourth. Junior Joel Lara (Boston, Mass.) provide the keynote, as he lashed a two-run triple down the right-field line and into the corner. Senior Dylan Jones (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) drilled a two-run double over the head of the center fielder in the inning as well, while sophomore Ian Battipaglia (Cheshire, Conn.) clubbed Franklin Pierce's fourth two-run homer of the day. His third of the season went an estimated 345 feet and slipped over the fence in right.

Franklin Pierce tacked on one in the fifth, four in the sixth and one each in the seventh and eighth to win going away, 21-1. In the sixth, Miller, unsatisfied with just his first career homer, hit his second, another two-run shot of an estimated 325 feet down the left-field line.

Saint Michael's scored its lone run of the second game in the top of the sixth, on an RBI groundout by senior Dante Moran.

Freshman right-hander Sean Foody (Tappan, N.Y.) used 99 pitches (55 strikes) to get through six innings and pick up the win (2-0) for the Ravens. He surrendered one run on five hits, walked three and struck out three.

Junior right-hander Ozzie Rodriguez (0-6) lasted just 1.2 innings on the hill for Saint Michael's. He allowed six runs on four hits, walked five and hit two batters.