FITCHBURG, MASS. 04/14/05 - Jim Abreau's (Mansfield, Mass.) double to left field in the bottom of the seventh inning scored Ray Richards (Millbury, Mass.) with the winning run giving Fitchburg State College a 6-5 victory over Keene State College in non-conference baseball action on Thursday. KSC, which has lost two straight, falls to 13-8, while Fitchburg goes to 9-10.

Trailing 2-0 after four innings, the Owls scored three runs on two FSC errors and an RBI single by Jeremy Schilling (Centerville, Mass.) to take a 3-2 lead. After the Falcons tied the score in the fourth on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth, KSC answered with a run in the fifth after Mike Masseur (Warwick, R.I.) singled to left field, then stole second and came home on Greg Ford's (Nashua, N.H.) RBI hit. Fitchburg regained the lead (5-4) in the fifth on a run-producing double by Tim Raymond (Sutton, Mass.), who came around to score on Abreau's sacrifice fly. The Owls scored their final run on an RBI single by Ford in the seventh.

Masseur and Ford each had three hits, while Nick Arroyo (Northridge, Ca.) and Robert Merrill (Colchester, Conn.) added two hits apiece to lead KSC. Owl starter Pat Austin (Wallingford, Conn.) struck out three and gave up five runs in 5.1 innings on the mound. Jim Slack (1-2) (Manchester, N.H.) took the loss for KSC. Keene State will host Colby-Sawyer for a single nine-inning game on Friday (3:30 p.m.) at Owl Athletic Complex.