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201020102010 NECNECNEC BASEBALLBASEBALLBASEBALL NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 399 Campus Drive, First Floor, Somerset, NJ 08873 Baseball Contact: Ralph Ventre, Asst. Dir. Comm. 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 12, 2010) Recent Results School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral Saturday, April 10 1. Wagner 8-4 .667 12-13 .480 W2 5-0 6-13 1-0 BRYANT 3, CENTRAL CONN. ST. 2 (10) CENTRAL CONN. ST. 5, BRYANT 1 2. Bryant 5-3 .625 13-15 .464 W2 4-3 9-9 0-3 FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 9, WAGNER 8 3. Mount St. Mary's 7-5 .583 12-16 .429 W1 4-2 7-14 1-0 WAGNER 11, FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 9 4. Central Conn. St. 6-6 .500 10-11 .476 L2 5-2 3-9 2-0 SACRED HEART 6, LONG ISLAND 5 LONG ISLAND 8, SACRED HEART 5 Monmouth 6-6 .500 10-14 .417 L1 6-4 3-9 1-1 MONMOUTH 8, MOUNT ST. MARY’S 7 (15) Sacred Heart 4-4 .500 12-16 .429 W1 3-4 6-8 3-4 MONMOUTH 4, MOUNT ST. MARY’S 0 7. Long Island 5-7 .417 8-20 .286 L1 6-4 0-9 2-7 Fairfield 7, QUINNIPIAC 2 8. Quinnipiac 3-5 .375 3-21 .125 L4 1-6 2-15 0-0 Sunday, April 11 9. Fairleigh Dickinson 4-8 .333 5-20 .200 L2 3-6 1-12 1-2 BRYANT 6, CENTRAL CONN. ST. 5 BRYANT 10, CENTRAL CONN. ST. 9 The top four teams based on conference winning percentage qualify for the NEC Tournament. WAGNER 14, FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 4 SACRED HEART 9, LONG ISLAND 2 MONMOUTH 6, MOUNT ST. MARY’S 4 Akadema NEC Player of the Week MOUNT ST. MARY’S 8, MONMOUTH 5 Seth Boyd, Wagner Fairfield 7, QUINNIPIAC 3 Jr., 2B, L/R, 6-1, 180 lbs., Perth Amboy, NJ/Perth Amboy Underlined Team is home. No underline indicates neutral site. Boyd did a bit of everything last week. Helping Wagner win four of five games, the junior second baseman hit for a high average (.579), drove in 10 runs, and stole four bases. Safely hitting his way on base in all Akadema/NEC Player of the Week five contests, Boyd went 11-for-19 at the plate with eight runs scored, two doubles and two home runs. He Mar. 1 Vin Avella, Wagner slugged 1.000 and posted a .619 on-base percentage. After accounting for a hit and a stolen base in Mar. 8 Tommy Meade, Central Connecticut State Wagner’s mid-week win over Big East member St. John’s, Boyd posted a .667 (10-for-15) batting average Mar. 15 Damian Csakai, Wagner during a four-game NEC series at Fairleigh Dickinson. He hit a solo homer and scored twice in Wagner’s Mar. 22 Vin Avella, Wagner series-opening 3-1 win. Boyd blasted another long ball and drove in four runs as part of perfect 5-for-5 Mar. 29 Sean Allaire, Central Connecticut State Apr. 5 Tommy Meade, Central Connecticut State showing in the series finale, a 14-4 victory. Seven of his 10 hits during the weekend series resulted in a Akadema/NEC Pitcher of the Week RBI. The Perth Amboy, NJ product has reached base safely in his last eight plate appearances. Mar. 1 Matt Watson, Wagner Akadema NEC Pitcher of the Week Mar. 8 Mike Matta, Mount St. Mary’s Mar. 15 Kyle Breese, Monmouth Troy Scribner, Sacred Heart Mar. 22 Nick Meyers, Monmouth Fr., RHP, 6-1, 165 lbs., Washington Depot, CT/Shepaug Valley Mar. 29 Kent Worthington, Mount St. Mary’s Scribner was in control throughout Sacred Heart’s 9-2 triumph over Northeast Conference foe Long Apr. 5 Alex Russow, Quinnipiac Island. The freshman right-hander struck out nine batters and walked none over 8.0 innings of winning Akadema/NEC Rookie of the Week baseball. Notching his first collegiate victory, which earned the Pioneers a split of their four-game NEC Mar. 1 Justin Topa, Long Island series, Scribner scattered seven hits and allowed only one earned run. He worked around two early Mar. 8 Troy Scribner, Sacred Heart Mar. 15 Peter Kelich, Bryant throwing errors by his defense in limiting LIU to one unearned run in the first inning. Getting stronger as Mar. 22 Gaby Ramirez, Wagner the game wore on, Scribner held the Blackbirds scoreless and allowed only two hits over his final 4.0 Mar. 29 Kevin Brown, Wagner frames of work. The rookie right threw 115 pitches while lowering his season earned-run average to 3.77. Apr. 5 Alex Russow, Quinnipiac Akadema NEC Rookie of the Week Gaby Ramirez, Wagner Fr., C, R/R, 5-10, 190 lbs., San Juan, Puerto Rico/Perkiomen (PA) Ramirez contributed to Wagner’s winning week from behind the plate and in the batter’s box. The freshman catcher threw out 50 percent (4-of-8) of attempting base-stealers and hit .389 over a five-game sample. Ramirez went 7-for-18 at the plate with five runs scored, four RBI, two doubles, and a home run. He opened the week by doubling and scoring a run in Wagner’s 5-2 victory over St. John’s. The starting backstop for all four games of the Seahawks’ weekend NEC series at Fairleigh Dickinson, Ramirez recorded six hits, four runs, and four RBI to help Wagner reclaim first place in the league standings. He enjoyed a career day by going 4-for-5 with a homer, three runs, and three RBI in the series finale, a 14-4 AkademaPro.com Wagner win. Ramirez was right in the middle of Wagner’s six-run sixth-inning rally in Game 3, singling and scoring the tying run of an eventual 11-9 triumph. ping three of four games to Bryant over the weekend. All three losses came by one run. … The third NEC Baseball Notes and final loss came when the Blue Devils allowed five unearned runs in the bottom of the ninth inning of the series finale. CCSU held a 9-5 advantage with Bryant down to its final three outs. … The Sacred Heart Senior Goes Deep in Three Straight Blue Devils hit .305 for the week, and held opponents to a .263 batting average. … CCSU defeated Sacred Heart senior outfielder Mike Drowne (S. Hadley, MA/S. Hadley) had homered only Iona, 12-5, at home in a mid-week contest. Central is 5-2 at home this season and has won three once in the season's first 25 games before teeing off in three consecutive contests. After an 0-for-2 straight on their recently-refurbished field. The Blue Devils are just 3-9 on the road this year, showing in Sacred Heart's series opener at Long Island, Drowne hit home runs in each of the next including 3-5 in NEC road action. … Senior Sean Allaire (Bristol, CT/Bristol Eastern) had three games. The power surge was part of an extremely productive week for the outfielder. Drowne another strong week at the plate for the Blue Devils, batting .450 with nine hits in 20 at-bats. He had batted .409 (9-for-22) and posted a .516 on-base percentage over a six-game sample. He drove in two doubles and a triple and drove in seven runs. … Junior Sean Miller-Jones (Centerville, eight runs and scored a team-high 11. Drowne was perfect on the base paths with four steals and MA/Barnstable) was 8-for-18 at the plate and has raised his batting average to .382 on the flawless in the field with nine putouts and an assist. The assist came throwing out a runner trying to season, third best on the team. Allaire leads the way batting .434 with a team-best 36 hits, 12 of them score from second on a single in the final game against LIU on Sunday. for extra-bases. … Junior Pat Epps (Waterford, CT/Waterford) is batting .329 on the year and is third on the team with 21 RBI. Epps has hit safely in 15 straight games for the Blue Devils, Late-Game Dramatics Earn Bryant Series Victory the longest streak of the season for Central. … Allaire leads the Blue Devils with 30 RBI on the It was better late than never for Bryant this past weekend. The Bulldogs posted three victories over season, followed closely behind by senior Tommy Meade (Pearl River, NY/Pearl River) NEC rival Central Connecticut State, all in their final at-bat. Sophomore Jamie Skagerlind (Holden, who has driven in 28. Meade has six of the Blue Devils' 19 home runs on the season. … Junior MA/ Wachusett) delivered the big blow in each of the first two victories. With the series opener lefty Dave Kasnowiecki (Cranston, RI/CCRI) earned his team-best third win of the season knotted at 2-2 in the bottom of the 10th inning, Skagerlind belted one over the right field fence for a on Saturday. He pitched seven innings allowing seven hits while striking out four in a 5-1 victory. walk-off home run. He repeated the feat in Game 3. After CCSU scored three runs to tie the game in Krasnowiecki is 3-1 on the season with a 4.59 ERA. He has struck out a team-best 25 batters this the top half of the seventh inning, Skagerlind sent the Bulldogs to a 6-5 win by blasting a one-out season.