Northeast-10 Tournament: Baseball Defeats So. Connecticut 4-2; Will Take on Lowell Friday
BRYANT BASEBALL
May 9, 2007
Boxscore Bryant Baseball Defeats
Southern Connecticut 4-2
Advances to Conference Semis Against Lowell Friday
SMITHFIELD, R.I.
– The Bryant baseball team got seven strong innings from
ace Eric Loh (Old Greenwich, CT) and advanced to
the Northeast-10 Semifinals with a 4-2 victory over Southern
Connecticut Wednesday afternoon at the Bryant Baseball Complex.
With the win, the Bulldogs will take on second-ranked UMass-Lowell
Friday at 4 p.m. in Lowell, Mass. Top seed Franklin Pierce will
play Pace at 7 p.m. The tournament is double elimination.
Bryant got on the board in the second inning as 3B Dylan
Stone (Portsmouth, RI) grounded out to second to bring
home 1B Mike Rocco (Tewksbury, Mass.). DH
Mark Dondero (Medfield, Mass.) followed with a
run-scoring single, bringing home LF T.J. Magnell
(Leominster, Mass.).
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Eric Loh got his 7th win of the |
The Bulldogs made it 3-0 in the third as Rocco singled to left,
scoring RF Taylor Ferguson (Charlton, Mass.).
With the score 3-2 in the seventh and SS Jay Alexander
(Simsbury, CT) at third with two outs, Rocco was
intentionally walked to put runners on the corners for C
Jeff Vigurs (South Windsor, CT). And Vigurs came
through, singling right back up the middle, giving the Bulldogs a
big insurance run.
Loh gave way to set-up man Eric Polvani (Wallingford,
CT) and Polvani put two runners on but got Billy Hite to
strike out swinging to end the threat in the eighth.
In the ninth, closer Adam Vuolo (Walpole, Mass.)
hit one batter and walked another, but got Michael Diaz to ground
out to Dave Muscatello (Hopkinton, Mass.) to end
the game and give the Bulldogs their 30th win of the season. Vuolo
notched his 12th save of the season, a school record.
Loh got his seventh win (7-2), striking out four and walking none
in seven innings of work.
The Bulldogs were without their shortstop Pat McKenna
(Orange, CT) for the first time all year due to injury,
but Alexander replaced him flawlessly defensively.
Bryant (30-20, 21-9 NE-10), ranked fifth in the latest Division II
Northeast Regional Rankings on ncaasports.com, will take on the
Riverhawks in “Game 3” of the Northeast-10 Conference
Tournament Friday in Lowell, Mass. at 4 p.m.
The game can be heard live on bryantbulldogs.com.
Bryant 4, Southern Connecticut 2 (May 09, 2007 at
Smithfield, RI)
Southern Connecticut 000 002 000 - 2 7 1 (19-30)
Bryant.............. 021 000 100 - 4 10 2
(30-20)
Pitchers: Southern Connecticut - Bethke; Nylin(7). Bryant - Loh;
Polvani(8); Vuolo(9).
Win-Loh(7-2) Save-Vuolo(12) Loss-Bethke(5-6) T-2:11 A-204
The entire NE-10 tournament schedule is listed below.
2007 Northeast-10 Tournament
Wednesday May 9 - Single Elimination
Game 1: #6 SCSU 2 at #3 Bryant 4 3:30
pm
Game 2: #5 Bentley 2 at #4 Pace 5 3 pm
Friday May 11 - Double Elimination at Lowell
Game 3: #3 Bryant vs. #2 Lowell 4 pm
Game 4: #4 Pace vs #1 Franklin Pierce 7 pm
Saturday May 12 at Lowell
Game 5: Game 3 Loser vs. Game 4 Loser 11 am
Game 6: Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Winner 3 pm
Game 7: Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 Loser 7 pm
Sunday May 13 at Lowell
Game 8: Game 6 Winner vs Game 7 Winner 12 pm
Game 9: If Necessary 3 pm