2007 NECNEC BASEBALLBASEBALL 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) • Saint Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Baseball Northeast Conference Baseball Facts & Figures (Week 7 - April 16, 2007) This Week’s Schedule School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral Monday, April 16 Friday, April 20 1. Mount St. Mary's 6-2 .750 16-15 .516 W4 6-5 6-6 4-4 QU at UConn, Ppd. WC at QU 2. Central Connecticut State 5-3 .625 14-7 .667 W1 8-1 6-6 0-0 MU at FDU 3. Monmouth 4-3 .571 18-11-1 .617 L1 6-3 12-7 0-1-1 Tuesday, April 17 LIU at SHU Sacred Heart 4-3 .571 13-16 .448 W3 4-3 4-6 5-7 QU at Rhode Island MSM at CCSU SHU at Manhattan 5. Quinnipiac 4-4 .500 11-10-1 .523 L1 4-2 6-6-1 1-2 CCSU at Iona Saturday, April 21 6. Wagner 3-5 .375 8-20 .286 L4 2-5 6-15 0-0 Rider at MU WC at QU (DH) 7. Long Island 2-5 .286 7-19 .269 W1 2-6 3-8 2-5 St. John’s at LIU MU at FDU (DH) LIU at SHU (DH) Fairleigh Dickinson 2-5 .286 7-23 .233 L7 2-7 5-16 0-0 Wednesday, April 18 MSM at CCSU (DH) Sacred Heart at UMass The top four teams based on conference winning percentage qualify for the NEC Tournament. Seton Hall at WC Sunday, April 22 MU at St. Peter’s WC at QU Akadema/NEC Player of the Week FDU at Manhattan MU at FDU Jeff Hanson, Sacred Heart MSM at Penn State LIU at SHU MSM at CCSU Jr., 1B/DH, 6-5, 230 lbs., Woodstock, NY/Onteora Hanson’s dynamic performance at the plate sparked the Pioneers to a three-game sweep of Fairleigh Dickinson For starting times, see Schedule/Results page. and a 4-1 record last week. He hit .588 with four doubles, a homer, six RBI, nine runs scored and a 1.000 slugging percentage. Hanson, who also walked twice and was hit by a pitch, played flawlessly in the field, making 19 Akadema/NEC Player of the Week putouts at first. The Woodstock, NY native went 8-11 in the series against the Knights, including four hits and four runs scored in a 14-8 win in Friday’s opener. In the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, he belted a solo Mar. 5 Kyle Higgins, MU Apr. 16 Jeff Hanson, SHU homer - his third of the season -in the fourth inning of a 3-2 extra-inning win. Hanson also went 2-4 with three Mar. 12 Pete Kummerfeldt, QU Mar. 19 Kyle Higgins, MU runs scored to lead the Pioneers to a 9-8 triumph over Yale in the first of two games last Tuesday. Now third in Mar. 26 Jeff Mainetti, QU the league in hitting with a .385 average, Hanson also leads the NEC with 12 doubles and is sixth with 25 RBI. Apr. 2 Kyle Messineo, MU Apr. 9 Ryan Murray, MSM Akadema/NEC Pitcher of the Week Brad Brach, Monmouth Akadema/NEC Pitcher of the Week Jr., RHP, 6-3, 200 lbs., Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township Apr. 16 Brad Brach, MU Mar. 5 Evan Scribner, CCSU Brach hurled the NEC’s first no-hitter in nearly three years on Friday in a 2-0 win over visiting Long Island. The Mar. 12 Jay Monti, SHU junior righthander, who was perfect through eight and a third innings, allowed a walk with one out in the ninth Mar. 19 Evan Scribner, CCSU Mar. 26 Matt Gianini, CCSU on a 3-2 pitch for his only blemish. Brach, a Freehold, NJ native who led the conference in ERA a year ago, struck Apr. 2 John Tesseyman, CCSU out six and improved to 4-1 on the season with a 3.21 ERA following his second straight nine-inning, complete Apr. 9 Joe Testa, WC game effort. It marked the first no-hitter in the NEC since Long Island's John Dooley and freshman Ryan Ekberg combined to no-hit Fairleigh Dickinson, 4-0, on April 29, 2004. The last no-hitter by an NEC pitcher in a solo effort Akadema/NEC Rookie of the Week came on April 27, 2002 when Sacred Heart’s Dan Scott stymied Long Island, 2-0. The gem was also the first for a Mar. 5 Brett Brach, MU Apr. 16 Mike Matta, MSM Monmouth pitcher since Glenn Spencer turned the trick against Mount St. Mary’s in 1990. Mar. 12 Ryan Buch, MU Mar. 19 Bobby Tretola, WC Akadema/NEC Rookie of the Week Mar. 26 James Jones, LIU Mike Matta, Mount St. Mary’s Apr. 2 Damian Csakai, WC Apr. 9 Vin Avella, WC Fr., RHP, 6-1, 175 lbs., Woodbridge, VA/Potomac Matta, who has settled into his role as the Mount St. Mary’s closer, was one of the key performers in a four-game NEC Baseball Tournament sweep of Wagner that propelled the Mount into first place in the NEC. Matta recorded a win and two saves against the Seahawks and finished the week with 0.00 ERA in four appearances covering 5.2 innings. He allowed just two May 24-26 hits and struck out three batters. In the Mount’s doubleheader sweep on Saturday, Matta earned the win in game at New Britain Rock Cats Stadium, New Britain, CT one, pitching 2.2 innings of scoreless relief in a 6-5, 10-inning victory. He came back to post his third save of the Four team, double-elimination tournament year in game two, working his way out of a two-out bases-loaded jam in the seventh. On the year, the Woodbridge, VA native is 2-2 with three saves and a 1.42 ERA. NEC Website For all the latest news, scores, statistics and notes, visit 2007 NEC Baseball Championships the NEC website at www.northeastconference.org Presented By Akadema Standings are updated daily; statistics are updated weekly. www.akademapro.com 2007 NEC Baseball Schedule/Results Schedule Subject To Change. All times are local. Central Connecticut State Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island (14-7, 5-3 NEC) (7-23, 2-5 NEC) (7-19, 2-5 NEC) M 3 at Maryland Eastern Shore (DH) W 7-5, W 16-4 F 23 vs. Oakland (Richmond, KY) L 2-9 M 3 at Navy (DH) W 9-1, W 5-2 F 23 at Eastern Kentucky L 1-8 M 4 at Navy L 0-1 M 4 at Maryland Eastern Shore (DH) W 9-8, L 5-6 F 24 vs. Oakland (Richmond, KY) L 0-10 M 7 at Hartford Cancelled M 10 at Appalachian State (DH) L 4-11, W 4-2 F 25 at Eastern Kentucky L 4-7 M 13 at Northeastern Postponed M 11 at Appalachian State L 2-9 F 28 St. Peter’s Cancelled M 3 at Hartford (DH) Cancelled M 14 Hartford W 2-1, W 13-9 M 13 at Duke L 4-15 M 4 at Hartford Cancelled M 17 Holy Cross (DH) Postponed M 14 at Duke L 5-10 M 6 at Iona Postponed M 18 at Holy Cross Postponed M 17 at Longwood Cancelled M 7 Maryland-Eastern Shore Cancelled at Palm Beach Challenge M 20 Boston College Postponed M 18 at Longwood (DH) L 7-12, L 2-3 M 10 vs. St. Bonaventure W 13-5 (10) M 23 at Penn State L 1-8 M 24 at Delaware State (DH) L 1-2, L 1-3 M 11 vs. Northern Illinois L 6-18 M 24 at Penn State L 1-9 M 25 at Delaware State (DH) L 5-11, W 4-3 M 12 vs. NJIT L 12-23 M 28 at Seton Hall L 2-11 M 13 vs. Fordham L 3-8 M 25 at Penn State W 2-0 M 14 vs. Maine W 8-2 M 27 Vermont (DH) W 7-0, W 10-3 M 30 Albany L 1-2 at Villanova Spring Bash M 29 Fairfield W 11-2 M 31 Albany (DH) L 3-8, L 3-8 M 16 at St. Joseph’s (PA) Cancelled A 3 at Rhode Island L 6-8 A 1 Albany L 5-12 M 17 at Villanova Cancelled M 18 at Temple Cancelled A 5 SACRED HEART W 15-3 A 3 St. Peter’s L 4-13 M 21 at Villanova Cancelled A 6 SACRED HEART (DH) W 4-3, L 3-5 A 5 QUINNIPIAC W 5-4 M 24 Lafayette W 7-6 (12) A 7 SACRED HEART W 11-1 A 6 QUINNIPIAC (DH) W 12-2, L 1-15 M 24 Binghamton L 2-3 (10) M 25 Binghamton L 2-12 A 10 at Boston College W 13-6 A 7 QUINNIPIAC L 1-10 M 27 Manhattan L 6-13 A 13 at QUINNIPIAC (DH) W 11-1, L 0-3 A 11 at St. John’s (DH) L 2-7, L 2-12 M 30 at Longwood L 3-8 A 14 at QUINNIPIAC (DH) L 1-3, W 3-2 A 13 at SACRED HEART L 8-14 M 31 at Longwood (DH) L 6-8, W 6-4 A 14 at SACRED HEART (DH) L 1-9, L 2-3 (8) A 1 at Longwood W 16-8 A 17 at Iona 3:30 pm A 3 Hofstra L 2-12 A 20 MOUNT ST.