CHANDLER, AZ. 3/20/09 - The once hot Keene State College baseball
team has hit a cold spell. The Owls dropped a doubleheader to 19th
ranked Pomona-Pitzer at Chandler-Gilbert Community College on
Friday. The Owls lost the opener 8-7 (9) in extra innings and
dropped the nightcap 14-5 in a seven inning game.
KSC, which has dropped four straight games, goes to 5-6.
Pomona-Pitzer improves to 18-2.
The Owls took an early 4-0 lead against the Sagehens.
Bobby Doyon (Keene, N.H.) had an RBI double in the
first and Tyler DiPrato (Suffield, Conn.), Jeff
Perkins (Dunbarton, N.H.), and Jamie
Chevalier (Amherst, N.H.) knocked in runs in a three run
second inning.
After Pomona-Pitzer tied the game tied the game at four-all, KSC
took the lead once again (5-4) in the fourth on a RBI single by
Perkins. KSC fell behind 7-5, but tied the game in the
seventh on a two-run double by Cody Callahan
(Seekonk, Mass.).
The Owls had a chance to take the lead in the eighth, when
Jon Barber (Brattleboro, Vt.) opened the inning
with a triple, but he was left stranded.
The Sagehens won the game on an Owl error in the ninth.
Mike Riley (East Hartford, Conn.) started for the
Owls. He pitched 4 1/3 innings, giving up five runs on seven hits
with one strikeout. Rob DelBuono (Trumbull,
Conn.) came in to pitch in the ninth and took the loss.
David Colvin, a former Keene Swamp Bat, got the win for
Pomona-Pitzer.
Callahan had three hits while Beau Darak
(Londonderry, N.H.), Perkins, Barber, and Doyon had two hits each
for KSC.
In the second game, the Sagehens scored five runs in the first off
of Owl starter Ben Sonberg (Bow, N.H.) on the way
to their win.
KSC came back to make it a 6-3 game in the second on a home run by
Callahan and an RBI double from Larry Longo
(Londonderry, N.H.). Falling behind 11-3, KSC got one run
back in the bottom of the fourth on Callahan's second home run of
the day and fifth on the trip.
Keene State wraps up its trip with a single game against Concordia
College of Wisconsin on Saturday.
