BASEBALL DEFEATS LIU 21-2 SUNDAY BEHIND CAMPBELL'S FOUR-HIT PERFORMANCE
May 8, 2010
BRYANT TAKES SERIES WITH 21-2 WIN OVER LIU SUNDAY
Bulldogs lead Northeast Conference by three games
@ Brooklyn, N.Y. – Bryant 21, LIU 2 - BOXSCORE
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| Senior Nick Campbell went 4-for-4 with four runs scored and added three RBIs to lead Bryant to a 21-2 win over LIU Sunday. www.dspics.com |
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Senior Nick Campbell (Raynham, Mass.) went 4-for-4 with four runs scored and three RBIs while freshman Peter Kelich (Jackson, N.J.) picked up his seventh win of the season to lead Bryant to a 21-2 win over Long Island University Sunday, closing out the weekend series taking three of four against the Blackbirds.
The win keeps the Bulldogs alone in first place in the Northeast Conference by three games over Sacred Heart which defeated Wagner Sunday to keep pace at 15-9 in the league. Bryant, 18-6 in the NEC, will travel to Quinnipiac next weekend for a four game series before closing out the year at home against Sacred Heart May 19-21.
Bryant (27-21) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead thanks to an RBI single by Campbell in the first, scoring Kevin Brown (Northborough, Mass.) from third. Later in the fourth, Campbell would come across to score on a groundout by Zakary Cianciolo (Prospect, Conn.) to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead.
The Bulldogs would add to the lead later in the sixth on an RBI single by Jamie Skagerlind (Holden, Mass.) and a two-run home run by Tim Norton (Barnstable, Mass.) to make it 5-0.
But that would be just a prelude for what was to come in the seventh as the Bulldogs scored 11 runs thanks in part once again to the hot bat of Campbell who drove in a run with a single scoring Brown who led off the inning with a four-pitch walk.
Bryant would later load the bases where a Cianciolo drew a full count walk to score Jeff Vigurs (South Windsor, Conn.) for the second run of the inning. Skagerlind would soon follow with an RBI single of his own. With the bases still full, Norton stepped to the plate and cleared the bases with a three-run double to left.
Batting around, Campbell would again come to the plate with the bases loaded and came through with his second hit of the inning and fourth of the game to score Brown. I
The lead would grow to 18-0 before LIU (13-35, 10-18) would finally get on the board with a run in the bottom of the eighth. In the ninth, reserve Dan Mello (Peabody, Mass.), got into the action by belting his first career home run, a three-run shot to left to make it 21-1.
Freshman Tim Bessette (Waterbury, Conn.) worked the ninth out of the bullpen, allowing a run but closing out the game by getting Sam Sciamerelli to strike out swinging to end the game.
Campbell finished the day going 4-for-4 at the plate with a walk while driving in three and scoring four times in the game. It was his 20th multiple hit game of the season and third, 4-hit game of the year. Dylan Stone (Portsmouth, R.I.) and Jordan English (Windsor Locks, Conn.) each had a pair of hits as Bryant collected a combined 20 hits on the afternoon. Kelich, Bryant’s key Sunday starter all season long, allowed just three hits and striking out four in six innings.