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Keegan Burke
8
Winner Saint Michael's STM 6-10, 4-3 NE10
5
Southern Conn. St. SCS 4-12, 1-6 NE10
Winner
Saint Michael's STM
6-10, 4-3 NE10
8
Final
5
Southern Conn. St. SCS
4-12, 1-6 NE10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Saint Michael's STM 1 2 0 0 4 1 0 8 10 3
Southern Conn. St. SCS 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 9 2

W: Safer, Matt (2-1) L: Bailey Goss (0-4) S: Burke, Colin (1)

8
Winner Saint Michael's STM 7-10, 5-3 NE10
1
Southern Conn. St. SCS 4-13, 1-7 NE10
Winner
Saint Michael's STM
7-10, 5-3 NE10
8
Final
1
Southern Conn. St. SCS
4-13, 1-7 NE10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Saint Michael's STM 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 8 7 0
Southern Conn. St. SCS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 3

W: Burke, Keegan (1-2) L: Payton Powell (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Sweeps Southern Connecticut State to Win Weekend Series

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Saint Michael's College baseball team swept Southern Connecticut State University, 8-5 in seven innings and 8-1, during a Northeast 10 Conference doubleheader on Sunday at the Ballpark at SCSU. The Purple Knights won the four-game weekend series, 3-1.
 
RECORDS
  • Saint Michael's (7-10, 5-3 NE10), Southern Connecticut State (4-13, 1-7 NE10)
DOUBLEHEADER FACTS
  • The Purple Knights earned three wins over the same league foe in a season for just the second time, after defeating Assumption University three times in 2018.
  • With five NE10 wins, Saint Michael's is already closing in on matching the program mark of eight league victories (1993, 2013, 2024).
  • The Purple and Gold has won four times in a five-game stretch for the first time since April 13-16, 2009.
  • Saint Michael's is 4-2 at Southern Connecticut State the past two seasons after losing its first five contests on the Owls' home field.
  • First-year Gage Spagna (Nottingham, N.H./Lovell Academy) picked up his first two college hits in the opener.
  • Senior Colin Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) moved into third place in program history by picking up his fourth career save.
  • Senior Keegan Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) moved into 15th in program history in career strikeouts (124), passing Bob Pollinger, Class of 1925 (117), John Miarecki '01 (119) and Joseph Tarbell, Class of 1912 (123).
  • Junior Jack Pattison (Vernon, Vt./Vermont Academy) was hit by a pitch for the 12th time in only 15 appearances this season, already tying Steven Auger '17 (2015) for second in program annals. Lenin Gomez '20 was plunked a record 17 times in 2019.
  • Senior Sam Cavossa (East Falmouth, Mass./The Winchendon School) picked up his 142nd career hit and now trails Alec Tice's '14 school record by just four (146).
GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
  • Pattison, 3-for-4, R, 2 RBI, 2B, 2 SB
  • Spagna, 2-for-3, R, RBI, SB
  • Junior Trevor Arsenault (Websterville, Vt./Spaulding), 2-for-4, R, RBI
  • Junior Josh Ayala (San Diego, Calif./Alexandria City/West Virginia Wesleyan), 1-for-3, R, RBI, SF
  • Junior Richard Gilboy (South Portland, Maine/South Portland), 1-for-4, R, 2 RBI, 3B
  • Junior Colin Kinsella (Winthrop, Mass./Winthrop), 0-for-2, R, 2 BB
  • Senior Matt Safer (Essex, Vt./Essex), 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K in relief, win
  • Colin Burke, 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K in relief, save
OPPONENT LEADERS
  • Redshirt junior Jake Chacho, 1-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR, HP
  • Redshirt junior Brennan Staubley, 3-for-4, R, 2 RBI, 2B
  • Redshirt sophomore Bailey Goss, 5 IP, 8 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, loss
THE ACTION
  • Pattison's RBI single in the first inning was met by Staubley's two-out, two-run double in the home half, but Spagna's infield single - his first college knock - scored Arsenault in the second inning before Ayala lofted a go-ahead sac fly to make it 3-2.
  • Chacho's two-run home run sparked a three-run third.
  • Gilboy tied the game with a two-run triple in the fifth before Arsenault came through with an infield RBI single and Kinsella scored on a two-out error.
  • Pattison's two-out RBI double pushed the lead to 8-5 in the sixth.
  • Colin Burke came out of the bullpen to work a shutout seventh for the save, working around a pair of singles and fanning the final batter, who represented the tying run.
GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
  • Ayala, 2-for-5, R
  • Kinsella, 2-for-5, 2 R
  • Pattison, 2-for-4, 3 RBI, 2B
  • Junior Jacob Smith (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale), 0-for-2, R, 3 BB
  • Sophomore Jerry Guzman (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Brunswick School), 1-for-5, 2 R, RBI, HR
  • Keegan Burke, 8.1 IP, 9 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 K, win
  • Sophomore Griffin Dupuis (Rowley, Mass./Deerfield Academy), 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K in relief
OPPONENT LEADERS
  • Staubley, 3-for-4, RBI
  • Redshirt sophomore Ryan Fedeli, 2-for-3, 3B
  • Sophomore Payton Powell, 5.1 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, loss
THE ACTION
  • Spagna's sac fly scored Kinsella in the second inning and Guzman led off the fourth with a long home run to left field to create a 2-0 margin.
  • The Purple Knights pulled away with six runs - all unearned - on two hits and three errors in the sixth. After the first three runs scored on miscues, Pattison added a three-run double with two out.
  • Fedeli tripled with two out in the eighth but was stranded when Keegan Burke fanned the final batter.
  • Still working on a shutout, Keegan Burke retired the first batter in the ninth before yielding three straight hits, losing the shutout on Staubley's RBI knock. Dupuis relieved him and fanned the only two batters he faced.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
  • Saturday vs. Adelphi University, 1:30 p.m. doubleheader.
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