COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College baseball team was swept in a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader by Saint Anselm College, 4-3 in seven innings and 19-8 in nine, on Sunday at Doc Jacobs Field.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (3-24, 2-12 NE10), Saint Anselm (18-20, 11-9 NE10)

GAME FACTS

• Nine of the Purple Knights' last 15 games was decided by three runs or less, with nine losses this year coming by two runs or fewer.
• Sophomore Brady Clark (Springfield, Vt./Springfield) picked up his first career hit during game two.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• First-year Terence Moynihan (Stoneham, Mass./Saint Mary's), 2-for-4
• Junior Anthony Santosuosso (Arlington, Mass./Arlington), 1-for-2, 1 BB
• Senior John Luke Cianciolo (Guilford, Conn./Guilford/New Haven), 1-for-3, 1 RBI; 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K in relief
• Senior Ozzie Rodríguez (Tampa, Fla./Boca Ciega), 6.2 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, loss

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Graduate student Salvatore Pezzolla, 3-for-4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 2B
• Senior Kyle Maurice, 2-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Junior Harry MacKinlay, 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
• Senior Andy Grygorcewicz, 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K in relief, win
• Junior Avery Mosseau, 1 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, save

THE ACTION

• The Hawks left a pair of runners in scoring position during the opening inning.
• In the home half, sophomore Andrew Lanthier (Orwell, Vt./Fair Haven Union) and junior Ulysses Luciano (Bronx, N.Y./Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy) walked one out apart before Cianciolo picked up an RBI single, scoring the former, before the latter scored on an error.
• Junior Brady Doran's two-out RBI single halved the deficit in the fourth inning.
• Saint Michael's still led 2-1 with two out and none on in the seventh inning, with Rodríguez looking to finish off a seven-inning complete game, but senior Matt Collins singled and sophomore Zack Clough was hit by a pitch, and both scored on Pezzolla's double. Maurice followed with an RBI single to make it 4-2.
• First-year pinch-hitter Filly Santos (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/Park West) walked with one down in the home half before sophomore Danny Rickert (Williston, Vt./Essex) replaced him on the base paths. All in the same sequence, Rickert took off for second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on an infield error, and came home on an outfield miscue. Saint Michael's trailed by one, but the final two batters were set down.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Moynihan, 3-for-4, 1 R, 1 BB
• Santosuosso, 2-for-4, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 2B
• Cianciolo, 2-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 SAC
• First-year Evan Balian (Lynnfield, Mass./Lynnfield), 3-for-5, 2 R, 1 RBI
• Senior Brady Perron (Barton, Vt./Lake Region Union), 0-for-2, 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HP, 1 SF
• First-year Jarret Muzzy (Ferrisburgh, Vt./Vergennes Union), 5 IP, 7 H, 10 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, loss
• First-year Maverick King (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex), 2.1 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K in relief
• Sophomore Joey Hosea (Dorchester, Mass./Catholic Memorial), 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 0 K in relief
• Senior Sebastian Oetterer (Orlando, Fla./Dr. Phillips), 1 IP, 2 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 2 K in relief

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Doran, 5-for-5, 3 R, 8 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 HP, 3 SB
• Collins, 2-for-5, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB
• Senior Jack Dunklee, 2-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 HP, 1 SB
• Sophomore Will Hunter, 3.1 IP, 7 H, 8 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 2 K
• Senior David Hunter, 5.2 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K in relief, win

THE ACTION

• The Purple Knights scored four runs on three hits and three errors during the first inning, as Balian and Santosuosso both had RBI singles.
• Doran's ground-rule RBI double got the Hawks on the board in the second before he and Dunklee had back-to-back two-run knocks as part of a five-run third, giving Saint Anselm a 6-4 edge. Nine of the game's 10 runs to that point were unearned.
• With two out in the home half, Santosuosso smacked a tying two-run double before coming home on sophomore Matt Sevigny's (Rocky Hill, Conn./Rocky Hill) go-ahead RBI single.
• Perron's sac fly pushed the Saint Michael's lead to 8-6 in the fourth.
• Saint Anselm scored the final 13 runs. Collins had a two-run single and Clough a two-run double in a four-run fifth that put the visitors in front for good, and Doran hit a ninth-inning grand slam.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Thursday vs. Bentley University, 1:30 p.m. doubleheader.