BANGOR, ME.  3/26/11 – The Keene State College baseball team split a pair of seven inning non-conference games against Husson University, playing for the first time at its new Winkin Sports Complex on Saturday. Temperatures at the field hovered around the 32 degree mark.

Senior Tyler  DiPrato (Suffield, Conn.) went 3-4 and knocked in a couple of runs and junior pitcher Tim Thiesing (South Grafton, Mass.) gave up just one run and two hits in his five innings on the mound to lead the Owls to a 4-1 win in the opener.

Keene State (10-3) saw its seven game winning streak come to an end with a 7-2 loss to the Eagles in the second game.

Trailing 1-0 after the first inning, Keene State tied the game on an RBI single by DiPrato in the fourth.  DiPrato delivered again in the sixth, driving home the go-ahead run with a single.

The Owls added to more insurance runs in the seventh on a pinch hit RBI single by freshman Drake Deluga (Dennis, Mass.) and run-producing hit by junior Dan Arsenault (Hot Springs, Ark.). Arsenault finished the game with two hits.

Thiesing (1-0) fanned six and walked one to pick-up his first win of the season.  Senior Corey Vogt (Suffield, Conn.) pitched the final 1.1 innings, striking out three batters to notch his second save of the season.

In the second game, Husson scored single runs in the second, third and fifth innings to go up 3-0.  Cody McInnis had an inside the park home run for Husson in the fifth when a ground ball went through the legs of a KSC infielder and rolled all the way to the fence in left center field.

Keene State got two runs back in the top of the sixth when Arsenault walked with the bases loaded and junior Kyle Morrill (Auburn, N.H.) followed with an RBI single to left field. Senior Bobby Doyon (Keene, N.H.) attempted to score, but he was called out at home on a controversial play. "That changed the complexion of the game," said KSC Coach Ken Howe.

The Eagles came back with four runs in the bottom of the inning tom pull ahead 7-2.

Sophomore Juan Bisono (New Britain, Conn.) had two of the Owls' six hits in the nightcap.  KSC didn't have an extra base hit in the game.

Sophomore Chris Crutcher (Londonderry, N.H.) started for Keene State and took the loss (2-1). He pitched 4.2 innings, giving up three runs on five hits with seven strikeouts and one walk.  Junior Jeff Pelkey (Fitzwilliam, N.H.) and sophomore Eric Perrault (Salem, N.H.) also saw time on the mound.

Keene State is scheduled to play at Babson College on Monday (3:30 p.m.).