Orlando, FL - The St. Joseph's College baseball team won a pair of games today against Curry College to push their season mark to 4-0. The Monks beat the Colonels 9-4 in game one, then used an 1- hit attack to post a hard-fought 7-5 victory.
Junior catcher Andrew Wood (South Portland, ME) remained hot in game one going 2-2 with 2 RBI, 2 stolen bases, and a run scored. Senior DH Chris Doughty (Westbrook, ME) chipped in 2 hits and an RBI.
Senior LHP Ben Cutter (Westbrook, ME) was strong in his first outing of the year picking up the win. Cutter went 5 innings allowing only 4 hits and striking out 2 Colonels. Junior RHP Ryan Boucher (Manchester, NH) threw a scoreless sixth inning in his first appearance in Royal Blue, and Andrew Pooler (Southwest Harbor, ME) closed things out in the seventh.
Game two was hotly contested, as the Monks jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on an RBI single by Brian Schools (Gorham, ME) to drive in Wade Oliver (Owls Head, ME) who doubled to lead the game off. Junior SS Luke Enman (Milan, NH) scored the second run on an RBI ground out by Wood. The Colonels would not surrender, however, making it a 3-3 game after four innings. Junior CF Dustin Spiller chipped in a 2-3 day including an RBI, he was joined by senior Keil Martin who also went 2-3 with one driven in. The crucial blow came in the top of the fifth as senior Mark Clapp came through with a 2-run pinch-hit single to put the Monks on op 5-3. St. Joe's would tack on single runs in the sixth and seventh to close out the scoring.
Sophomore RHP Chris Leger (Jaffrey, NH) started game two on the mound going 3 2/3 innings allowing 3 runs on 4 hits, striking out 4. Leger gave way to sophomore LHP Cole Filosa (Milford, MA) in the fourth. Filosa earned his first collegiate win pitching out of several jams and keeping the momentum on the side of SJC. He went 3 1/3 innings scattering 5 hits and allowing 2 earned runs and recorded 1 strikeout to end the game and preserve the 7-5 victory.
Head coach Will Sanborn was pleased to see the Monks remain undefeated. "I'm happy with the way we are swinging the bats right now; we have gotten excellent contributions from Andrew Wood, Dustin Spiller, Luke Enman, and a bunch of other guys so far. We still need to work out a few kinks, but we are off to a good start." Sanborn has also seen some impressive outings on the mound thus far in 2007. "We have gotten 4 quality starts so far and that is what we will need; we have a young pitching staff that has responded well to some early challenges. There will continue to be a lot of competition for innings, but I like what I have seen."
The Monks will look to win their fifth straight on Tuesday night at 7:00 PM as they take on Daniel Webster College at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, FL.
