COLCHESTER, Vt. - Senior Jack Weber's (Milford, Conn./Notre Dame) walk-off single in the 11th inning of game one highlighted the Saint Michael's College baseball team's split of Assumption University in a Northeast 10 Conference doubleheader on Friday at Doc Jacobs Field. The Purple Knights took the opener, 6-5, before losing a 5-0, seven-inning decision in the nightcap.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (15-19, 13-12 NE10), Assumption (10-25, 6-19 NE10)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• The Purple Knights played an 11-inning affair for the first time since Feb. 26, 2023, at Pace University, but for the first time on Doc Jacobs Field since a 12-inning contest versus Vassar College on April 9, 2005. Friday's game matched the Purple and Gold's longest NE10 home game, having come on April 24, 1993, also against Assumption.
• Weber's single was the latest walk-off hit by a Purple Knight since Paul Jasinski's '75 solo home run in the bottom of the 13th inning of game one against Siena College on April 29, 1972.
• Saint Michael's registered only the fifth 6-0 start in program history (1906, 1907, 1999, 2003) before falling in the finale.
• Saint Michael's tied the 2009 squad for fourth in program history in victories. The Purple Knights are two shy of the 1999 team's mark (17).

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Weber, 3-for-4, 2 RBI, 2 BB, 2B
• Graduate student Max Kolifrath (Millbury, Mass./Millbury), 3-for-6, 2 R
• Junior Trevor Arsenault (Websterville, Vt./Spaulding), 1-for-6, R, 2 RBI
• Junior Josh Ayala (San Diego, Calif./Alexandria City/West Virginia Wesleyan), 1-for-3, BB, 2 SAC
• Junior Richard Gilboy (South Portland, Maine/South Portland), 1-for-5, R, BB
• Junior Colin Kinsella (Winthrop, Mass./Winthrop), 4-for-6, 2 R, RBI
• Sophomore Griffin Dupuis (Rowley, Mass./Deerfield Academy), 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K in relief
• Senior Colin Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan), 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K in relief, win

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Anthony Marco, 2-for-6, R, RBI
• First-year Michael Caron, 4-for-5, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2 2B
• Senior Ryan Cloutier, 3.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K in relief, loss

THE ACTION

• Assumption led 3-0 by the fourth inning thanks to junior Tony Salvatelli's run-scoring knock in the third and RBI hits from Caron (double) and graduate student Eric Giarnese (single) in the fourth.
• The Purple Knights went ahead with four runs on three hits in the fourth, as Arsenault sent a tying two-run single up the middle before scoring on a wild pitch.
• Caron tied the game in the fifth with a two-out RBI double.
• Weber walked with the bases loaded to force home the go-ahead run in the home half.
• Marco's RBI single again tied the game in the eighth.
• Burke entered from the bullpen with one out in the 10th and induced an inning-ending double play on his second pitch to wriggle out of a jam.
• In the 11th, Kinsella led off with a single before moving to second on Ayala's sac bunt and to third on Arsenault's fly ball. With two down, Weber sent a 1-2 pitch back up the middle for the walk-off single.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Arsenault, 1-for-3
• Senior Sam Cavossa (East Falmouth, Mass./The Winchendon School), 1-for-3
• First-year Gavin Nichols (Swanton, Vt./Missisquoi Valley Union), 4.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, loss

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Graduate student Christopher Manzo, 2-for-4, 2 R
• Senior Chris Klein, 2-for-4, R, RBI, 2B, HR
• Senior Patrick McManus, 2-for-3, RBI, BB, 2 2B
• Sophomore Tiarnan Doyle, 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 7 K

THE ACTION

• Klein led off the second inning with a solo home run to right field.
• The Greyhounds broke open the 1-0 affair with two unearned runs on two hits and two errors in the fifth, with Salvatelli adding an RBI double.
• McManus doubled home Manzo in the sixth before Manzo came around on a seventh-inning error.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday vs. Assumption, 1:30 p.m. doubleheader.