CAMPBELL RECORDS 300TH CAREER HIT IN BASEBALL'S WINS SATURDAY
April 24, 2010
CAMPBELL RECORDS HIT NO. 300 IN BRYANT SWEEP
Bulldogs Defeat Fairleigh Dickinson To Move to .500
College Baseball @ Smithfield, R.I.
Game 1 – Bryant 3, Fairleigh Dickinson 1 – boxscore
Game 2 – Bryant 6, Fairleigh
Dickinson 3 - boxscore
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| THE HIT: Senior Nick Campbell became the first player in school history to record 300 career hits, achieving the milestone with a double to left in the first game Saturday against Fairleigh Dickinson. www.dspics.com |
SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Bryant University senior Nick Campbell (Raynham, Mass.) lined a one-out double down the left field line in the bottom of the sixth inning as part of a three-run inning to help lead the Bulldogs to a 3-1 win over Fairleigh Dickinson in the first game of Saturday’s Northeast Conference doubleheader.
For Campbell, the double marked the 300th hit of his career, becoming the first player in school history to reach the 300-hit milestone.
Bryant would win the nightcap 6-3 to improve to 18-18 overall on the year and 10-5 in the Northeast Conference. Fairleigh Dickinson drops to 9-25 (4-10). The Bulldogs will go for the series sweep Sunday with a new start time of 11 a.m. due to expected rain in the forecast.
In the opener, Bryant senior Eric Polvani (Wallingford, Conn.) and Fairleigh Dickinson’s Mike Eliasen locked into a pitcher’s duel up until the sixth inning when the Bulldogs plated three runs. Polvani allowed a leadoff single to Matt Holsman but retired the next 13 batters in-a-row before Ryan Kresky broke the string with a single to right in the fifth.
Polvani allowed just five hits in six innings while striking out five and walking just one to improve to 3-5 on the season. Eliasen was just as strong on the mound for FDU, allowing a leadoff double to Kevin Brown (Northborough, Mass.) in the first inning, allowing just a walk to Tim Norton (Barnstable, Mass.) in the third and taking a one-hitter into the sixth. But in the sixth, Norton started the rally with a single up the middle. After a walk to Colin Dougherty (Lowell, Mass.), the two runners moved up a base as the result of a balk by Eliasen .
With the infield playing in, Brown would ground out to second base for the first out, but Jordan English (Windsor Locks, Conn.) came through in the clutch, lining a single to left to score Norton from third.
After an intentional walk to Jeff Vigurs (South Windsor, Conn.), Campbell made it 2-0 with his milestone 300th hit that also happened to be the 53rd career double.
Mark Andrews (Hillsborough, N.J.) came on to pitch in the seventh to pick up his seventh save of the season.
In the second game on the day, freshman Zakary Cianciolo (Prospect, Conn.) had a big day at the plate. The shortstop went 3-for-3 with a single, a double, and triple to finish just a home run shy of hitting for the cycle as the Bulldogs rallied back from a 2-0 deficit to win 6-3.
Trailing 3-1 in the fourth, Cianciolo tripled to deep center to score Dylan Stone (Portsmouth, R.I.) who led off the inning with a single. Norton would get Cianciolo home with a single to right to tie the game at 3-3.
In the fifth inning, the Bulldogs took its first lead of the game as thanks to an RBI double by Cianciolo. Starter Peter Kelich (Jackson, N.J.) picked up his sixth win (6-1) while Andrews picked up his eighth save of the season getting the final two outs in the seventh.
Campbell singled in the second inning to stretch his hit streak to nine games.