COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College baseball team continued a season-ending six-game homestand with a 13-1 loss to 20th-ranked Southern New Hampshire University on Thursday at Doc Jacobs Field. The Purple Knights slipped to 10-24 overall and 4-16 in the Northeast-10 Conference, while the Penmen are 26-8 and 12-3. Southern New Hampshire's national ranking is according to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), and it stands second in a pair of regional polls.

Junior Matt Feeney (Portsmouth, N.H./Portsmouth) tripled and drove in a run for Saint Michael's, and classmate Alex Holt (Framingham, Mass./Marian) added a double. Sophomore Alex Winkelmann (Gilford, N.H./Tilton School) yielded eight runs - five earned - over three-plus innings to take the loss as the first of six pitchers. Out of the bullpen, seniors Will Corkum (Ipswich, Mass./Ipswich) and Barry Maily (Moosup, Conn./Plainfield) combined for a trio of shutout innings, with Maily fanning two in two frames.

Junior Lorenzo Papa (Stoneham, Mass./Arlington Catholic/Broward) was 3-for-3 with three runs, two RBIs, two walks, a double and a home run for the Penmen. Sophomore Manny Cruz (Wolcott, Conn./Wolcott) drove in four, senior Alejandro Diaz (Old Bridge, N.J./Old Bridge) was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and two walks, and junior Ryan Gendron (Nashua, N.H./Nashua South/UMass Lowell) homered. Sophomore Tim Viehoff (Derry, N.H./Pinkerton Academy) allowed two hits and one run while striking out 11 before being followed by three relievers.

Winkelmann faced the minimum through two innings, aided by first-year catcher Zach Szczechowicz (Epping, N.H./Trinity) negating a second-inning single by cutting the runner down trying to steal second. Southern New Hampshire snapped the scoreless tie by plating 13 runs between the third and sixth innings. Five Penmen had one RBI during a five-run third, with Papa's RBI double putting his team on top for good, and Gendron and Papa sparked a four-run fourth by leading off with back-to-back solo home runs.

Senior George Buteau (Burlington, Vt./Trinity-Pawling School) walked with one out in the home half of the fourth inning before Feeney tripled him home one out later to get the hosts on the board, but Southern New Hampshire extended its lead to 12-1 with three runs in the fifth. Cruz's two-run single was the key hit. He added a sacrifice fly in the sixth after the Purple Knights loaded the bases with two down in a scoreless fifth.

Saint Michael's closes its season with a four-game series at home versus regionally-ranked Stonehill College this weekend. The teams' doubleheaders begin on Saturday and Sunday at 12 p.m. The Skyhawks are third in this week's New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) poll.