FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Saint Michael's College baseball team was swept in a pair of seven-innings contests on Tuesday by Bethel (Minn.) University, 17-4 and 13-1, during the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic at Pigott Stadium. The teams squared off for the first time, and play again on Thursday.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (1-5), Bethel (7-2)

GAME FACTS

• Senior Ryan Hosea (Dorchester, Mass./Boston Collegiate Charter School) and first-years Colby Fane-Cushing (Colchester, Vt./Colchester) and Nick Lindberg (Dudley, Mass./Marianapolis Prep) all made their college debuts in the opener.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Mitchell Goulet (North Easton, Mass./Oliver Ames), 1-for-2, 1 BB
• Junior Ulysses Luciano (Bronx, N.Y./Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy), 1-for-4, 2 RBI
• Sophomore Justin Garcia (Saint Petersburg, Fla./Dixie Hollins), 1-for-3
• Sophomore Andrew Lanthier (Orwell, Vt./Fair Haven Union), 1-for-2, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 HP
• Sophomore Matt Sevigny (Rocky Hill, Conn./Rocky Hill), 0-for-2, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
• First-year Terence Moynihan (Stoneham, Mass./Saint Mary's), 3-for-4, 2 RBI
• Senior Ozzie Rodríguez (Tampa, Fla./Boca Ciega), 3.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 7 BB, 4 K
• Fane-Cushing, 0.2 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K in relief, loss
• Sophomore Joey Hosea (Dorchester, Mass./Catholic Memorial), 0.1 IP, 1 H, 4 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 K in relief
• Ryan Hosea, 0.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 0 K in relief
• Lindberg, 1 IP, 3 H, 6 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 1 K in relief

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Caleb Brandt, 3-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 2B, 1 SB
• Senior Tommy Friesen, 1-for-2, 2 R, 3 BB, 1 2B
• Senior Ty Koehn, 2-for-2, 2 R, 4 RBI, 3 BB, 1 2B
• Sophomore Matthew Carlsen, 1-for-3, 2 R, 3 BB
• Redshirt junior Blake Williams, 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K in relief, win

THE ACTION

• Bethel grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on junior Noah Wenberg's sacrifice fly.
• The Purple Knights pushed ahead on Luciano's two-run single in the third before leading 4-1 in the fourth on Moynihan's one-out, two-run single.
• Koehn walked with the bases loaded in the home half before Carlsen came around on a wild pitch, and Bethel went ahead and pulled away thanks to eight runs in the fifth and six more in the sixth.
• Koehn's three-run double and Brandt's pair of run-scoring hits keyed the fifth-inning outburst, while first-year Andrew Cardenas had a two-out, two-run, pinch-hit double in the sixth.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Luciano, 2-for-3
• Sevigny, 1-for-2
• Senior John Luke Cianciolo (Guilford, Conn./Guilford/New Haven), 1-for-2
• First-year Filly Santos (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/Park West), 0-for-3, 1 RBI
• First-year Jack Menard (Tewksbury, Mass./Tabor Academy), 4 IP, 4 H, 8 R, 6 ER, 4 BB, 1 K, loss
• Junior Anthony Santosuosso (Arlington, Mass./Arlington), 3 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 2 K in relief

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Carlsen, 2-for-3, 2 R, 1 3B, 2 HP, 1 SB
• Senior Nick Kulseth, 2-for-4, 3 R, 2 RBI, 1 3B, 1 HP
• Junior Taylor Brodersen, 1-for-2, 1 R, 1, RBI, 3 BB, 1 2B
• Sophomore Luke Carlson, 2-for-5, 2 R, 4 RBI, 1 HR
• Senior Marcus Krupke, 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, win

THE ACTION

• Sophomore Jordan Krupke's RBI groundout gave visiting Bethel the lead in the second, and the Royals tacked on 11 more runs over the next three frames.
• Koehn had an RBI single in a four-run third, Carlsen and Kulseth knocked back-to-back triples in a three-run fourth, and Kulseth poked an RBI single before Carlson hit a three-run homer in a four-run fifth.
• Sophomore Nate Rogers (Portland, Maine/Cheverus) walked to lead off the sixth before Luciano singled with one out, and Santos' fielder's choice grounder plated Moynihan.
• Brodersen walked with the bases loaded in the seventh for the final run.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Wednesday vs. the University of Wisconsin-Stout (9 a.m.) and Lasell University (12 p.m.) in Fort Myers, Fla., at Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic.