NORTH CLARENDON, VT. 4/1/07 -Keene State hitters banged out 18 hits and freshman pitcher Julian Lugo (Yorktown Heights, N.H.) pitched five solid innings to pick up his first college win en route to a 8-1 non-conference baseball victory over Castleton State (5-6) in a game played Sunday at Mill River Union High School in North Clarendon, Vt.

The Owls scored all their runs in three innings.  With two outs in the top of the second KSC scored two runs in an RBI double from Jeff Perkins (Dunbarton, N.H.) and a RBI single by James Chevalier (Amherst, N.H.). 

John Grainger (Keene, N.H.) came up to bat with the bases loaded in the sixth and delivered a two-run single to make it 4-1.  KSC added four more runs in the eighth.  Peter Hall (Danielson, Conn.) had a pitch hit two-run single, Joe Rousseau (Nashua, N.H.)  hit his first home run of the season, and  Ryan Jones completed the scoring with an RBI triple.

Chevalier, Grainger, and Buck Merrill (Colchester, Conn.) finished the game with three hits each.

Making his first start, Lugo gave up one earned run on six hits with three strikeouts and one walk.  Chevalier threw three innings of one hit ball with two strikeouts, and Greg Ford (Nashua, N.H.) pitched the ninth with a walk and a strikeout.

Keene State (12-7) hosts rival Plymouth State on Wednesday (3:30 p.m.).