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Baseball Drops Two at Keene State

4/15/2006

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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Keene State got a pair of strong pitching performances and swept a Little East Conference doubleheader from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's baseball team, winning 5-1 and 8-4 at the Owl Athletic Complex Saturday afternoon.

The Corsairs, who scored their only run of the first game on a fifth-inning solo home run by junior catcher Mike Maclean (Spencer, MA/David Prouty HS), got an RBI double from Maclean and a sacrifice fly from senior first baseman Dan Mancini (Marlboro, MA/Marlboro HS) to cut the Owls' lead to 7-4 in the top of the eighth inning. But Mike Wiseman relieved starter Jon Young and retired the side, and Greg Ford pitched a scoreless ninth inning to allow Keene State to hold on.

Junior left fielder Evan Britto's (Rochester, MA/Old Rochester HS) sacrifice fly allowed UMass Dartmouth to tie the score at 1-1 in the second inning, and an RBI single by freshman third baseman Dave McGuire (Plainville, MA/King Philip Regional HS) tied it at 2-2 in the fifth. Keene State broke the tie in the fifth on sacrifice flies by John Granger and Josh Watkins, then added three more runs in the bottom of the sixth on home runs by Grainger and Ford.

Young earned the victory and improved to 4-0, while Corsair senior starter Lee Marques (Fall River, MA/Diman Regional HS) took the loss and fell to 0-2.

In the opener, Grainger drove in two runs with a single, while Jeremy Schilling and James Chevalier each had run-scoring hits after Maclean's solo homer gave UMD a 1-0 lead in the top of the fifth. Rick Stromgren scattered seven hits, pitched a complete game and earned the win, improving to 3-1. UMass Dartmouth junior lefthander Will Mahoney (Mattapoisett, MA/Old Rochester Regional HS) took the loss, despite pitching a complete game, walking no one and striking out 10. H's record dropped to 2-1.

"We played a couple of pretty good ballgames," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Bob Curran. "We played better defense, and we were in them right down to the end. We left a few too many people on base."

UMass Dartmouth fell to 5-18, 2-6 in Little East Conference play with the defeat, while Keene State improved to 20-9 and 6-1. The Corsairs will return to action when they visit Brandeis in a non-conference game Monday afternoon.

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