Takes North Atlantic Conference Title
STANDISH, MAINE - The Saint Joseph's College Monks (27-9, 10-1)
earned a 7-2 victory over the University of Maine-Farmington
Beavers (6-16, 1-8) to clinch the North Atlantic Conference (NAC)
regular season baseball title. St. Joe's will host the NAC baseball
tournament scheduled for May 6-8, 2005.
St. Joe's scored all seven runs in the first three frames and
received a solid performance from first-year pitcher
Miles Johnson (Berwick, ME).
Johnson recorded his third win of the season, pitching five
innings, allowing four hits and striking out three batters.
Reliever Billy Chapman
(Eddington, ME) shut down the Beavers in the final two innings.
The Monks totaled nine hits on offense. First-year
Luke Enman (Milan, NH) had two
hits and one RBI for the Monks. Junior Nick
Arno (Windham, ME) collected two RBIs with a
double in the third inning. Eight starters had a hit in the contest
for Saint Joe's.
Maine-Farmington scored an unearned run in the third inning and
added another run in the fourth on a solo home run by first-year
Matt Brey (Brunswick, ME) Senior Ray Doubleday (Lisbon, NH) pitched
a complete game in a losing effort for the Beavers.
Junior Steve Lambert (Gonic, NH)
struck out five batters and went the distance to earn his third win
of the season in the Monks' 12-1 game two win over the Beavers.
St. Joe's (28-9, 11-1) got off to another good start scoring two
runs in the first and five more in the to take a 7-0 lead in the
contest. The Monks added five more runs in the next three frames to
make the score 12-0 after six innings. Lambert,
who allowed only three hits, was unable to hold the shutout when
the Beavers scored a run in the top of the seventh on a double, a
ground out and a sacrifice fly.
First-year Charlie Furbush (South
Portland, ME) led the Monk offense with a two-run home run and a
two run double for four total RBIs. Repeat hitters for the Monks
included Furbush, senior Aaron
Cieslak (Windham, ME) two hits and an RBI,
sophomore Mark Clapp (Blue Hill,
ME) two hits and an RBI and senior Andy
Exley (Portland, ME) with two singles. Senior
Derek McIntosh (Auburn, ME) hit a
two-run home run and first-year Andrew
Dvilinsky (Portland, ME) had a two-run double to
help the offensive attack.
First-year pitcher Ben Savielo (Wilton, ME) was the losing pitcher
in game 2 allowing nine runs (eight earned) in four innings of
work.
