Athletics

Baseball Closes Out Regular Season Play With Pair Of Non-League Setbacks At Saint Joseph’s (Maine)

SUFFOLK BASEBALL
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Mahaney Diamond, Standish, Maine

GAME #1 FINAL: SAINT JOSEPH’S (MAINE) 8, SUFFOLK 1
     123 456 7  R H E
Suffolk (29-11)    010 000 0 - 1 5 2
Saint Joseph’s (Maine) (27-16)  010 142 x - 8 11 1
BATTERIES
SUF: Steve Durant and Bobby Barrett
SJM: Kyle Dorr, Mason Roberge (4), Chris Nanof (7) and Andrew Wood
WP: Roberge (6-2)  LP: Durant (6-4)
Home Runs: SJM – Wade Oliver (4), Ben Grant-Roy (7)

GAME #2 FINAL: SAINT JOSEPH’S (MAINE) 2, SUFFOLK 0
     123 456 7  R H E
Suffolk (29-12)    000 000 0 - 0 2 1
Saint Joseph’s (Maine) (28-16)  002 000 x - 2 8 2
BATTERIES
SUF: Dan D’Elia and Bobby Barrett
SJM: Andrew Keirstead and Travis Adams, Stephan Gorsun (6), Andrew Wood (7)
WP: Keirstead (6-2)  LP: D’Elia (7-3)

STANDISH, Maine--  Junior Wade Oliver (Owls Head, Maine) and sophomore Ben Grant-Roy (Biddeford, Maine) each had three hits and drove in three runs to lead Saint Joseph’s (Maine) to a sweep of a non-league college baseball doubleheader of Suffolk by scores of 8-1 in the opener and 2-0 in the nightcap in games played Thursday afternoon at Mahaney Diamond.

The host Monks (28-16) snapped a 1-1 fourth inning tie in the opener when senior Dustin Spiller (Gorham, Maine) scored on a wild pitch, and Saint Joseph’s broke the contest open with four fifth inning tallies, highlighted by Grant-Roy’s two-run homer and a two-run double by senior Luke Enman (Milan, N.H.).  Oliver closed out the hosts’ scoring in the sixth with a two-run homer, as freshman Mason Roberge (Franklin, N.H.) picked up his sixth win on the mound for the Monks with 3 1/3 innings of two-hit relief.  Junior Paul Vittozzi (North Reading, Mass.) drove in the lone run of the day for the visiting Rams (29-12) with a second inning RBI single, as he collected two of Suffolk’s five hits in the opener.  Senior Steve Durant (Malden, Mass.) went the distance on the mound for the Rams, fanning five in falling to 6-4 on the spring.

Oliver and Grant-Roy combined for an RBI single and double, respectively, in the bottom of the third of the nightcap for Saint Joseph’s, and that would prove to be all of the scoring in the contest, as sophomore Andrew Keirstead (Westbrook, Maine) tossed a complete-game two-hit shutout and struck out six to collect his second win over Suffolk on the year and his sixth overall in eight decisions.  Junior Dan D’Elia (Boston, Mass.) suffered the tough-luck second game setback on the mound for the Rams, scattering eight hits and fanning five in going the distance while falling to 7-3 on the spring.

Suffolk, the regular season Great Northeast Athletic Conference champion, will await word of a possible berth into the NCAA Division III Baseball Championships, as those pairings will be announced on Sunday evening.  Saint Joseph’s, which defeated the Rams in capturing the Great Northeast tournament title, earned the league’s automatic berth into the NCAA field and will learn its opponent on Sunday evening.

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