Eagles Toppled By Plymouth State, 7-2
- Courtesy Plymouth State Sports Information -
Plymouth, NH - Senior Jay Kleponis (Reading, Mass.) and sophomore
Bryant Lausberg (Somersworth, N.H.) collected three hits apiece
Monday afternoon as Plymouth State University defeated Daniel
Webster College, 7-2, in non-conference baseball action at Panther
Park.
Kleponis had three singles, a stolen base, a run scored and drove
in two, while Lausberg cracked a double among his three hits and
scored a run to lead the Panther offense. Eight of the nine PSU
starters recorded at least one hit to highlight a 14-hit attack.
PSU wrapped up a seven-game home stand with its third straight
victory, improving to 12-17 overall, while DWC fell to 4-21.
Sophomore lefthander John Andersch (Concord, N.H.) recorded the
victory for PSU, improving to 3-2 on the season. He pitched five
innings and allowed two runs on four hits while striking out six.
Seniors Nick Englert (North Woodstock, N.H.) and Taylor Ketchum
(Fairhaven, Mass.) and freshman Joe Hudson (Greenfield, Mass.)
combined to throw four innings of no-hit, no-run relief.
The Eagles took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on three
straight hits by sophomore Zach Cantor (Windham, Maine), junior Rob
Leary (Litchfield, N.H.) and freshman Kory Kiro (Goffstown, N.H.)
and an infield grounder by junior Charles Manning (Riverside,
R.I.). That would end up as the extent of the Eagles offense.
Senior Jim VanGyzen (Glocester, R.I.) put PSU on the board in the
bottom of the first with an RBI triple. The Panthers took the lead
for good in the third, when Lausberg and Kleponis opened the inning
with a double and single, and came around to score on a wild pitch
and sacrifice fly, respectively. Kleponis also added a run-scoring
single in the fourth inning to put PSU ahead, 4-2.
The Panther pulled away with two runs in the fifth inning and one
more in the sixth. Freshman Marcus Joyce (Scituate, Mass.) doubled
home a run in the fifth and then scored on a single by Josh Roberti
(Cranston, R.I.), and senior Marc McGinnis (Hanover, Mass.) doubled
in the sixth inning and scored on a single by freshman Mike
Cappiello (Westfield, N.J.) to close out the scoring.
The Eagles visit to Mitchell, scheduled for Tuesday will be pushed
to Thursday due to rain in New London, Conn. The original home game
for Thursday with Massachusetts College will be canceled.
