BASEBALL SPLITS WITH LIU SATURDAY; VIGURS DRIVES IN FOUR RUNS IN 6-1 WIN

May 8, 2010

BRYANT BASEBALL SPLITS WITH LONG ISLAND SATURDAY

Game 1 – Bryant 6, LIU 1 - boxscore
Game 2 – LIU 11, Bryant 8 - boxscore

Senior Jeff Vigurs went 2-for-3 with four RBIs in Saturday's 6-1 win in Game 1 against Long Island. www.dspics.com

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The Bryant University baseball team split a Northeast Conference doubleheader with Long Island University Saturday afternoon.  The Bulldogs took the opener 6-1 behind a strong pitching performance from senior Eric Polvani (Wallingford, Conn.) and extend its conference win streak to 11 games.  The Bulldogs would drop the nightcap, 11-8 despite out-hitting the Blackbirds 13-9.

Polvani evened his season record 5-5 with a complete game six-hitter.  The senior righty allowed just one run in the sixth while striking out eight batters and allowing just one walk.

The Bulldogs took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third on an RBI single by Jordan English (Windsor Locks, Conn.) to score Connor Carignan (Norwich, Conn.) who led off the inning with a single through the left side. The Bulldogs threatened to add to the lead loading the bases with two outs, but LIU was able to get out of the inning with a strikeout.

Bryant would add two more runs in the fifth thanks to two-run home run by Jeff Vigurs (South Windsor, Conn.) to make it 3-0.

In the sixth, Vigurs would strike again.  After an RBI single by Kevin Brown (Northborough, Mass.) the senior catch stepped to the plate and laced a two run double to right to make it 6-0. Vigurs finished the day 2-for-3 with four RBIs and a run scored. Senior Nick Campbell (Raynham, Mass.) had his 18-game come to an end in the game.

In the second game, the Bulldogs took a 6-3 lead into the fifth but LIU would score five times in the bottom of the fifth and would add three more in the seventh to win 11-8.  Brown led the Bulldogs going 3-for-5 at the plate with an RBI and three runs scored.  English also had a three-hit game while Dylan Stone (Portsmouth, R.I.) went 2-for-3.

Freshman Joseph Michaud (Milford, Conn.) took the loss in relief of starter Sal Lisanti (Bronx, N.Y.) who went four innings allowing five runs on five hits.

Bryant (26-21, 17-6 NEC) and LIU (13-34, 10-17) will close out the four game weekend series with a single game Sunday at 1 pm.