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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 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. bomb to right. Bryant continued the late-game dramatics in t he second half of Sunday's double- header. Trailing 9-5 heading into their final at-bat, the Bulldogs plated five runs on three hits and two Fairleigh Dickinson (5-20, 4-8 NEC) errors to take the series. Coming through in the clutch, sophomore David Soltis (Plainville, Fairleigh Dickinson dropped four of five games played last week. The Knights came up one run shy CT/Plainville) lined a two-out, two-run single to left field to cap the 10-9 victory. in a mid-week contest against Garden State rival Seton Hall before falling thrice in its four-game weekend NEC series against Wagner. … The Knights received a strong pitching performance from Dombrowski Logs Lots of Time Behind Dish senior lefty Terry Lydecker (Pompton Lakes, NJ/Pompton Lakes) who made his third Monmouth's Bobby Dombrowski (Denville, NJ/Seton Hall) received an awful lot of pitches career start in the 6-5 setback to Seton Hall. He pitched 5.1 innings of no-hit baseball, allowing only last week. The senior catcher was behind the plate for all 38 innings of the Hawks' NEC series against one run and striking out five before being lifted. The Knights no-hit the Pirates through the first six Mount St. Mary's, including all 15 frames of Monmouth's marathon win in the opener. The wear and innings before finally allowing a hit in the seventh. FDU held a 5-2 lead in the eighth before allowing tear of catching didn't affect Dombrowski's offensive production in the slightest. The heavy hitter led four runs and losing 6-5. … Sophomores Ryan Kresky (Freehold, NJ/Freehold) and Monmouth with his .375 batting average on the week. Dombrowski went 6-for-16 with two doubles Mike Eliasen (Swedesboro, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) each had two hits against the Hall. and five RBI, while drawing two walks, being hit by a pitch three times and not striking out. Eliasen also had two RBI's as did freshman Ben Mersky (Hershey, PA/Hershey). … In the series opener versus Wagner, senior righty Mike Strachman (Roslyn Heights, NY/Roslyn) Over-powering Polvani Puzzles Opposing Hitters yielded hree runs in 7.0 innings of work as he scattered eight hits, while only issuing only one walk Bryant senior hurler Eric Polvani (Wallingford, CT/Sheehan) struck out 17 batters over and striking out three. Strachman has gone at least 6.1 innings in his last three starts and has an 14.0 innings of work last week. The veteran right-hander started twice, earning a 5-0 victory over ERA of 3.13 over that span. … Down 8-1 versus Wagner in the second game of the series, game Harvard and no-decision in a 6-5 triumph over Central Connecticut State. The 6-foot-2 Polvani one of Saturday's doubleheader, the Knights scored eight times over the final three innings to win fanned four in 7.2 innings against Harvard before striking out a career-high 13 batters in 6.1 frames 9-8. With the Knights trailing 8-7 going into their last at bat, FDU scored twice and plated the winning against CCSU. He allowed five runs against the Blue Devils, but only three were earned. Displaying run on a walk-off single up the middle by junior Steven LaForge (Garfield, NJ/St. Mary). impeccable control, Polvani walked only two all week. Sophomore Matt Holsman (Coral Springs, FL/Stoneman Douglas) tied a season high with four hits and scored three times in the comeback victory, while LaForge collected three hits and Topa Finishes What He Started drove in two runs. … The Knights' bullpen held the Seahawks to no runs and three hits over the Long Island rookie right-hander Justin Topa (Binghamton, NH/Chenango Valley) has final four innings of the Game 2 win. … Junior Brian Dillon (Sarasota, FL/Cardinal Mooney) gone the distance in each of his past three starts. His most-recent complete-game performance came went 3-for-4 at the plate in Game 3 to bust out of a 4-for-23 slump. … Junior Joe Martino against Northeast Conference rival Sacred Heart. Topa tossed 7.0 innings of six-hit ball and finished (Westbury, NY/W.T. Clarke) hit his second home run of the season and scored two runs in the on the winning side of LIU's 8-5 triumph. He struck out a career-high 10 in what was the second half second half of Saturday's doubleheader, an 11-9 setback. … Kresky scored three times and hit his of Saturday's doubleheader. Topa also saw some work in relief last week. He came into a bases- second homer of the season in the series finale. loaded, two-out jam in the ninth inning against Saint Peter's and preserved a 3-2 lead for his first career . For the year, Topa is owns a 3-3 record and the NEC's sixth-lowest ERA (3.86). Long Island (8-20, 5-7 NEC) Long Island went 3-2 for the second consecutive week. … After defeating Saint Peter's, 3-2, on April Team-by-Team Notes 7, the Blackbirds got a strong outing from senior Kenny Cedel (Staten Island, NY/ Bryant (13-15, 5-3 NEC) Tottenville) in a 10-4 win in the series opener against Sacred Heart two days later. Cedel fanned Bryant picked up its seventh straight win by opening last week with a 5-0 blanking of Harvard, but nine Pioneers over 8.0 innings, allowing only two runs. … The win over Sacred Heart extended saw its streak come to an end with an 11-3 loss at Boston College. The Bulldogs rebounded over the Blackbirds' winning streak to four games. That streak was snapped in the first game of Saturday's the weekend, taking three of four against Central Connecticut in a home NEC series. … Junior doubleheader, a 6-5 Sacred Heart win. … Junior centerfielder Sam Sciamarelli's (Brick, NJ/ Zakary Cianciolo (Prospect, CT/ Woodland Regional) hit .429 for the week with nine hits Point Beach) nine-game hitting streak was also halted in the first half of Saturday's double dip, - four of which were doubles. … Senior pitcher Eric Polvani (Wallingford, CT/Sheehan) but he went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs in the nightcap, an 8-5 win for Long Island. … Taking picked up his second win of the year with a five-hit, four- performance against Harvard. the ball for Game 3 against Sacred Heart, freshman Justin Topa (Binghamton, NY/Chenango Polvani kept the K's coming during his weekend start against CCSU, striking out a career-high 13 Valley) threw his third complete game in as many starts. After coming into a bases-loaded, two-out batters in 6.1 innings of work against the Blue Devils. The Bulldogs beat Central, 6-5, but Polvani pickle in the ninth inning of Long Island's 3-2 win over Saint Peter's on April 7 and earning his first received a no-decision. … Bryant won each opening game of Saturday and Sunday's doublehead- career save, Topa struck out a season-high 10 without allowing a walk over seven innings of ers on walk-off home runs by sophomore Jamie Skagerlind (Holden, MA/ Wachusett). … winning baseball against the Pioneers. … Sacred Heart earned a series split with a 9-2 win in the In the Sunday's final game, Bryant scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth to pull out a dramatic finale. … Senior third baseman Greg DeSantis (Bridgewater, NJ/Bridgewater-Raritan) 10-9 win. Sophomore David Soltis (Plainville, CT/ Plainville) lined a two-out, two-run played in his 168th career game in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, setting a new Long single to left to win it. … Senior Nick Campbell (Raynham, MA/Bridgewater-Raynham) Island record for games played as he passed Robby Rowen. enters Wednesday's non-conference game at Rhode Island with 290 career hits and 51 career doubles. ... Senior Jeff Vigurs (South Windsor, CT /South Windsor) drove in three runs Monmouth (10-14, 6-6 NEC) this past week to help him move into second all-time in school history with 153 career RBIs. ... Monmouth won three out of five games played last week, all coming at home. The Hawks bounced Polvani, who holds a team-best 3.32 ERA, has 50 and 15 walks this season. back from a 6-5 mid-week loss to Lafayette by taking three of four from NEC foe Mount St. Mary's. … Monmouth's 15 inning game against Mount St. Mary's on Saturday, an 8-7 win, was the Hawks' Central Connecticut State (10-11, 6-6 NEC) longest game since playing 16 innings at UCF in 2008. … Head coach Dean Ehehalt now has 438 The Blue Devils' win percentage fell to an even .500 (6-6) in Northeast Conference play after drop- career wins at the helm of the Monmouth program, and 233 wins in NEC play. … Four Hawks starters batted over .300 on the week, led by a .375 average from senior catcher Bobby Dombrowski Wagner (12-13, 8-4 NEC) (Denville, NJ/Seton Hall). A week after batting .529, Dombrowski went 6-for-16 with two doubles NEC preseason favorite Wagner reclaimed first place in the NEC standings by taking three of four games and five RBI. Freshman Danny Avella (Matwan, NJ/CBA), who tied for the team-lead with seven from Fairleigh Dickinson this past weekend. The Seahawks also posted a mid-week win over St. John's. hits, hit .368 with two doubles and two home runs. Upperclassmen Mike Casale (Toms River, NJ/ … The victory over the Red Storm was the Seahawks 11-straight win at home, dating back to last TR North) (.318) and Cal Costanzo (Edison, NJ/Edison) (.316) rounded out the foursome. season and is tied with Charlotte and Texas State for the fifth-best active streak in the NCAA. The Green Casale tied Avella with a team-best seven hits. … As a team, Monmouth had 13 doubles on the week. … & White are 5-0 at home this season and 38-13 all-time at Richmond County Bank Ballpark (2008). The pitching staff registered a 4.02 ERA on the weekend, as Kyle Breese (Monmouth Junction, ... The win over the St. Johns was the second in the last three years, having previously lost 13-straight NJ/South Brunswick), Pat Light (Colts Neck, NJ/CBA) and Jonathan Shippee (Waterford, to the Red Storm Wagner has defeated a Big East team in each of the last three years, going 4-4 during NY/Shenendehowa) each posted wins. Both Light and Shippee recorded their first career wins. that time. … Against St. John's, The top four Seahawk hitters went 2-for-15 (.133) while the No. 5-No. 9 hitters combined to go 8-for-19 (.421). Sophomore Tommy Higgins (Port Monmouth, NJ/ Mount St. Mary's (12-16, 7-5 NEC) Red Bank Catholic) energized a 10-hit attack, going 3-for-4 with a double. … Freshman Chris- The Mount dropped three of four games at Monmouth after earning an 11-9 mid-week win over Mary- tian Rautenstrauch (Charlotte, NC/Providence Day) collected his first collegiate win, work- land-Eastern Shore. … In the opening game at Monmouth, the Mountaineers let a pair of extra-inning ing 5.0 innings against the Red Storm. … The Green & White then made it two in a row with a 3-1 Game leads slip away in an 8-7, 15-inning marathon loss. … The Mount relinquished a 4-0 sixth-inning lead 1 victory over FDU. … Sophomore RHP Ryan Van Spronsen (Brantford, Ontario/Assump- slip away in a 6-4 loss the following day. … Junior outfielder Shane Eyler (Taneytown, MD/ tion College) improved to 2-3 on the year, striking out four while not walking a batter and allowing Francis Scott Key) has picked up his offense in NEC games, hitting .395 with 10 runs scored over one run on five hits over 7.0 innings. He threw just 98 pitches, 66 strikes, while recording four perfect 12 NEC games this season. … Sophomore second baseman Michael Foster (Easton, MD/Easton) frames in the series opener. … Junior Ian Karlsson (Brooklyn, NY/Xaverian) entered in the is hitting .378 in league games for the Mount. … On the mound, senior Kent Worthington bottom of the eighth inning of the FDU series opener and promptly retired all six hitters he faced for (Hagerstown, MD/North Hagerstown) is 2-0 with a 0.84 ERA in three starts in NEC play this year. his third save of the season. The Brooklyn native needed just 18 pitches in his 2.0 innings of work. He … Freshman outfielder Sam Nott (Harrisburg, PA/Central Dauphin) hit safely in all three had not yielded a run over the previous six games while recording three saves, eight strikeouts and games he played last week. He went 5-for-9 at the plate with two RBI, both of which came in the series allowing just four base-runners (3 hits, 1 walk) over 7.0 innings. ... The teams split a doubleheader finale against Monmouth. … The Mount visits Georgetown on April 13 for a mid-week game before on Saturday with FDU taking game one by a 9-8 count and Wagner winning the second game 11-9 in hosting Bryant for four games this weekend. come-from-behind fashion. Higgins led the way in the doubleheader split, reaching base safely in all eight trips to the plate (4 hits, 3 walks, 1 HBP) with three RBI. … Junior Seth Boyd (Perth Amboy, Quinnipiac (3-21, 3-5 NEC) NJ/Perth Amboy) then led the Green & White to a win in the series finale by going 5-for-5 in Sundays In four games last week, Chris Migani (Orange, CT/Amity) and Joe Poletsky (Riverside, CT/ 14-4 romp. Helping the Seahawks to a season-best 14 runs on a season-high 16 hits, Boyd drove in Greenwich) both batted .500 (8-for-16). … Migani connected for his first homerun of the season, a four, scored twice and hit his second home run of the weekend. Boyd has now reached base safely two-run shot, against Brown in a mid-week affair. He entered the week hitting .156 in 14 games played in each of his last eight trips to the plate (7 hits, 1 HBP). On the week, he hit safely in all five games while and was mired in a 1-for-18 slump heading into the Brown game. The sophomore infielder broke out posting an impressive .579 average (11-for-19), including .667 (10-for-15) in four games at FDU, in a big way, posting a 3-for-5 showing against the Bears that included two runs scored. He was then 2- with 10 RBI, eight runs, two doubles, two home runs and four stolen bases. Boyd is now batting .565 for-4 against Dartmouth the next day before going 2-for-4 day against Fairfield at home on April 10. For (13-for-23) during NEC play with a team-best 12 RBI. ... Wagner has won 16-of-19 against FDU dating the week, he led all Bobcats with a .750 slugging percentage. … Poletsky tied for the team lead in average back to 2006 as the senior class finishes up with a 13-3 record against the Knights. … The Green & (.500), hits (8) and on-base percentage. He had three multiple-hit games in the four-game week, upping White are 10-4 in games decided by three runs or less, including 6-2 during NEC-play. ... Lost amongst the number of his multi-hit outings to a team-leading 10. The junior third baseman was 2-for-5 with a the offensive fireworks was Damian Csakai's (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Twp.) 200th career hit pair of RBIs against Brown before a 2-for-3 showing with a double against Dartmouth. He was also 3- in the second game against FDU as well as his second career steal of home. Csakai is now 19 hits off for-4 against Fairfield on Sunday. For the year, Poletsky is hitting .309 (29-for-94) with five doubles, 10 of 2007 graduate Joey DiGeronimo's school-record total of 219. He stole six bases on the week and RBI and nine runs scored while his 29 hits lead the Bobcats. … Junior Mickey Amanti (Waterford, is 20-of-22 on the year and 111-of-122 for his career. His 20 swipes are the 10th-best single-season CT/Waterford) entered the game against Brown in a 3-for-17 slump that spanned the past six games. total, giving the speedy Csakai four of the top-10 single-season totals in school history. In four games last week, Amanti batted .438 (7-for-16) with three multiple-hit performances. and hit in each game. Amanti recorded his 100th career hit against Brown on Tuesday before hitting his first home run of the season against Dartmouth. He is the fourth active player on the Bobcats' roster, and third this season, to reach the century mark. He also became the 54th player all-time at QU and 24th player in the Division I era. … In addition to Amanti's round-tripper, Quinnipiac senior Brian Monack (Branford, CT/Branford) homered twice against Dartmouth. The three homeruns were the most in a game for the Bobcats since they clubbed four against Fairleigh Dickinson on April 25, 2009. In that game, Monack and Poletsky each homered twice, marking the last time two different Quinnipiac players homered in the same game. … Monack became just the third NEC player this season, joining Bryant's Kevin Brown and Central Connecticut State's Tommy Meade, to homer twice in a game. Monack drove in a team-high five runs for the week, pushing his team-leading RBI total to 18. Monack also leads the team in slugging percentage (.437) and walks (17) while his .394 on-base percentage is second on the team. … Freshman Alex Russow (Milford, CT/Loomis Chaffee) pitched three innings of scoreless ball against Fairfield. Last week's Akadema NEC Rookie and Pitcher of the Week now has a 14-inning scoreless streak over his last three appearances.

Sacred Heart (12-16, 4-4 NEC) The Pioneers went 3-3 last week, and continued to hit well. SHU hit .296 over the six-game sample and is batting .299 through the first 28 games of the season. … The Pioneers ripped 25 extra base hits (18 doubles, a triple and six homers) last week and had a team slugging percentage of .500. … Senior center fielder Mike Drowne (S. Hadley, MA/S. Hadley) led the parade with three doubles and three homers. His homers came in three consecutive games at LIU on Saturday and Sunday. He slugged an impressive .955 last week. … The Pioneers stole six bases in seven attempts last week and are now 40- of-45 this season. … Freshman John Murphy (Seymour, CT/Seymour) hit his first collegiate homer against LIU on Sunday as part of a 4-for-5 afternoon. He leads the Pioneers in hitting this season at .365. … Junior third baseman Chris Whittemore (Lavellette, NJ/Union Catholic) had a good week at the plate last week, going 7-for-12 with five RBI. He had a two-run single in the fifth inning of the opening game of the doubleheader against LIU on Saturday, driving in what would eventually be the winning run. … Freshman Troy Scribner (Washington Depot, CT/Shepaug Valley) picked up his first collegiate victory in a 9-2 win at LIU on Sunday. The freshman righty threw 115 pitches and gave up seven hits and just one earned run in eight innings of work. He struck out a career-high nine and did not walk a batter. … The Pioneers will host Manhattan on April 13 prior to welcoming NEC rival Central Connecticut State for a four-game weekend set.