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NEC Baseball 2004 NECNECNEC BASEBALLBASEBALLBASEBALL NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 200 Cottontail Lane, Vantage Court North, Somerset, NJ 08873 Baseball Contact: Ron Ratner, Associate Commissioner Phone: 732-469-0440/Fax: 732-469-0744 E-Mail: [email protected] Central Connecticut State • Fairleigh Dickinson • Long Island • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary’s Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis (NY) • St. Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Baseball Northeast Conference Baseball Facts & Figures (Week 7 - April 26, 2004) This Week’s Schedule School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral 1. Quinnipiac* 16-4 .800 21-14 .600 W2 15-5 6-9 0-0 Tuesday, April 27 Thursday, April 29 (cont.) Brown at Sacred Heart Mt. St. Mary’s at Georgetown 2. Central Conn. St. 14-4 .778 29-10-1 .738 W6 13-5 16-5-1 0-0 Quinnipiac at UMass Army at Sacred Heart 3. Monmouth 11-5 .688 19-20-1 .488 W1 10-8 8-8-1 1-4 Long Island at Pace St. Francis (NY) at Iona 4. Fairleigh Dickinson 10-6 .625 11-19 .367 L1 5-5 5-10 1-4 Rider at Monmouth Monmouth at Rutgers 5. Wagner 6-9 .400 11-23 .324 W1 2-9 7-13 2-1 Lehigh at Wagner Wagner at Seton Hall 6. Mount St. Mary's 6-10 .375 20-14 .588 L1 8-4 6-9 6-1 Stony Brook at St. Francis (NY) Saturday, May 1 7. Sacred Heart 4-10 .286 6-30 .167 W1 5-11 1-11 0-8 Wednesday, April 28 Wagner at St. Francis (NY) (DH) 8. Long Island 5-13 .278 7-25 .219 L1 3-8 3-13 1-4 Monmouth at Wagner Monmouth at CCSU (DH) 9. St. Francis (NY) 1-12 .077 4-23 .148 L2 0-9 3-11 1-3 St. Francis (NY) at Long Island Mt. St. Mary’s at FDU (DH) Sacred Heart at FDU Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart (DH) * Clinched NEC Tournament Berth Rhode Island at Quinnipiac The top four teams based on conference winning percentage qualify for the NEC Tournament. Towson at Mt. St. Mary’s Sunday, May 2 Wagner at St. Francis (NY) Player of the Week Thursday, April 29 Monmouth at CCSU Keith Stegbauer, Central Connecticut State FDU at Long Island Mt. St. Mary’s at FDU CCSU at Albany Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart Sr., SS, R/R, 6-1, 190 lbs., Seminole, FL/St. Petersburg JC Stegbauer, the NEC’s leading hitter, becomes the fourth Central Connecticut State player to corral NEC Player of For starting times, see Schudule/Results page. the Week honors this season after leading the Blue Devils to a 6-1 week. Stegbauer batted .500 over the seven NEC games in italics. contests, rapping out 16 hits in 32 at-bats. He had five multiple hit games, swatted two homers, scored 12 runs and drove in 13 more. After plating two runners as CCSU salvaged a split with a 19-6 win over Quinnipiac in the NEC Player of the Week second game of a doubleheader on Wednesday, Stegbauer went 6-10 with a grand slam and six RBI in a Mar. 15 Rob Hosgood, CCSU Apr. 19 Rob Hosgood, CCSU doubleheader sweep of Rhode Island on Thursday and 8-12 with six runs and five RBI as the Blue Devils took three Mar. 22 Tim D’Aquila, CCSU Apr. 26 Keith Stegbauer, CCSU straight from Pace over the weekend. In the process, the Seminole, FL native established a new school record for Mar. 29 Albert Marano, QU runs (57) and tied a school mark for hits (79). Stegbauer, who has hit safely in 38 of 40 games this season, is Apr. 5 Matt Born, FDU batting .465 in 2004. He also leads the NEC in hits, runs and on-base percentage (.503). In the most recent NCAA Apr. 12 Tom Pezzello, CCSU statistics report, Stegbauer ranked fourth nationally in batting average and sixth in runs scored. NEC Pitcher of the Week Pitcher of the Week Mar. 15 Chris Skrypack, CCSU Apr. 19 Jesse Anziano, FDU Chris Della Rocco, Monmouth Mar. 22 Glen Keeton, MU Apr. 26 Chris Della Rocco, MU Sr., RHP, 6-2, 195 lbs., Wilmington, DE/Gloucester Catholic Mar. 29 Patrick Egan, QU Della Rocco was nearly flawless last week in picking up a win and a save for Monmouth, which has moved into Apr. 5 Patrick Egan, QU third place in the NEC standings with an 11-5 league mark. In 10.0 innings pitched for the week, Della Rocco Apr. 12 Patrick Egan, QU registered a perfect 0.00 ERA, permitted just five hits and held opposing batters to a .152 average, while fanning NEC Rookie of the Week eight. In a 6-1 win over Wagner on Wednesday, the Wilmington, DE product threw a complete game three-hitter, Mar. 15 Dustin Pease, MSM Apr. 19 Robert Rowen, LIU allowing just one unearned run. He came up big in a key spot on Sunday, tossing three innings of scoreless relief Mar. 22 Dustin Pease, MSM Apr. 26 Robert Rowen, LIU to earn his first career save as the Hawks rallied to beat Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-5, in the rubber game of a three- Mar. 29 Wilson Matos, QU game set. Della Rocco scattered two hits and struck out three. On the season, the senior rightander is 3-3 and Apr. 5 Bucky Kosyk, MSM ranks tenth in the conference with a 3.81 ERA. He has yielded just one home run in 52.0 innings pitched. Apr. 12 Dustin Pease, MSM Rookie of the Week NEC Baseball Tournament Robert Rowen, Long Island May 21-23 Fr., SS, 6-2, 195 lbs., Rosendale, NY/Rondout Valley at FirstEnergy Park, Lakewood, New Jersey Rowen makes it back-to-back NEC Rookie of the Week honors as the Blackbirds come off their finest week of the season, winning four of six outings. Rowen batted .500 (13-26) with three doubles, seven runs scored and four Four team, double-elimination tournament RBI. After a 3-5 effort with a double and two runs in an 8-7 setback to St. Peter’s on Tuesday, he collected three hits and an RBI in a doubleheader sweep of St. Francis (NY) on Wednesday. Rowen went on a tear over the NEC Website weekend, going 7-13 with five runs and three RBI as the Blackbirds took two out of three from Sacred Heart. In For all the latest news, scores, statistics and notes, visit Saturday’s doubleheader sweep of the Pioneers, he was 5-8, including a two-run double in game two that helped the NEC website at www.northeastconference.org cement the win. A Rosendale, NY native, Rowen is batting .426 (23-54) during a team season-best 13-game hitting Standings are updated daily; statistics are updated weekly. streak with at least two hits in eight of those contests. On the season, he leads LIU with a .350 average, .400 on- base percentage and .510 slugging percentage. 2004 NEC Baseball Schedule/Results Schedule Subject To Change. All times are local. Central Connecticut State Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island (29-10-1, 14-4 NEC) (11-19, 10-6 NEC) (7-25, 5-13 NEC) M 4 at UMES (DH) W 11-3, T 2-2 (8 inn.) F 28 at VCU L 5-6, L 0-9 M 6 at Charleston (DH) L 6-11, L 1-14 M 5 at Virginia L 1-17 F 29 at VCU L 2-29 M 7 at Charleston L 2-19 M 6 at Virginia L 0-10 M 6 at Lafayette Cancelled at Rollins Baseball Week, Winter, Park, FL M 7 at Virginia L 4-9 M 7 Lafayette (DH) L 0-4, L 0-3 M 10 vs. Georgetown L 1-5 M 10 Hartford W 22-1 M 10 at Rollins L 2-6 M 13 Bridgeport W 11-4 Games in Bradenton, FL M 11 vs. Penn W 8-5 M 14 Boston College (DH) W 8-7, W 14-7 M 13 vs. Army L 0-6 M 12 vs. Georgetown L 2-7 M 17 Saint Peter's Postponed M 14 vs. Eastern Kentucky L 1-14 M 12 at Rollins L 3-4 (10) M 18 at Holy Cross Postponed M 20 at Mount St. Mary's W 4-2 M 15 vs. Yale W 11-9 M 13 vs. Penn L 3-6 M 21 at Mount St. Mary's (DH) L 3-8, W 21-8 M 17 vs. Dartmouth L 9-23 M 14 vs. Penn L 7-10 M 24 at Fairfield W 9-5 M 18 vs. Northern Iowa L 2-7 M 19 Coppin State Postponed M 25 Vermont (DH) W 13-5, L 6-7 M 21 at St. John's (DH) L 5-9, L 3-6 M 21 Monmouth (DH) L 3-7, L 0-5 M 27 Long Island (DH) W 2-0, W 7-6 (8) M 24 Rutgers L 0-27 (7) M 24 Siena W 2-1 M 28 Long Island W 9-4 M 25 Albany Postponed M 30 Fairfield L 4-7 M 27 Wagner (DH) L 1-5, W 4-1 M 27 at Central Conn. St. (DH) L 0-2, L 6-7 (8) A 1 at Marist Postponed M 28 Wagner W 6-5 (12) M 28 at Central Conn. St. L 4-9 A 3 Wagner (DH) W 16-2, L 3-4 M 31 at St. Peter's Postponed M 30 Hofstra L 5-7 A 4 Wagner W 13-1 A 3 at Long Island (DH) W 11-2, W 8-0 M 31 Lafayette Postponed A 6 Maine (DH) W 9-8, L 3-8 A 7 Binghamton L 5-6 A 3 Fairleigh Dickinson (DH) L 2-11, L 0-8 A 9 at Sacred Heart (DH) W 7-2, W 8-3 A 9 St.
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