COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College baseball team picked up its program-record 18th win with an 11-8 victory over Franklin Pierce University on Wednesday during Northeast 10 Conference play at Doc Jacobs Field. The Purple Knights won the four-game season series from the Ravens, 3-1.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (18-19, 16-12 NE10), Franklin Pierce (10-26, 8-20, NE10)

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights are 9-1 at home this season, their best showing since going 10-5 in 2009. Their .900 home winning percentage is second in the league only to 22nd-ranked Southern New Hampshire University, which is 13-1 at home (.929).
• Saint Michael's won the regular-season series from the Ravens, 3-1, after entering the year 3-55-1 in the all-time series.
• The Purple Knights broke a tie with the 1999 team for the program's wins record.
• With eight regular-season games to go, the Purple and Gold is tied for fourth in a league that takes its top six into the postseason, while the No. 3 and 4 seeds host first-round games.
• Junior Jack Pattison (Vernon, Vt./Vermont Academy) swiped a pair of bases to move into a tie for seventh in program history in career stolen bases (19) with Matt Meagher, Class of 1912 and Matt Beaulieu '10.
• Senior Sam Cavossa (East Falmouth, Mass./The Winchendon School) became the first player in program history to score 100 career runs (101) while tying for fifth by slugging his eighth career home runs. Both of his homers this season have come against Franklin Pierce, on consecutive Wednesdays.

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Cavossa, 2-for-5, 3 R, RBI, HR, SB
• Pattison, 0-for-4, 3 R, 1 BB, 2 SB
• Senior Jack Weber (Milford, Conn./Notre Dame), 3-for-5, 2 R, RBI
• Junior Trevor Arsenault (Websterville, Vt./Spaulding), 1-for-4, R, 2B, HP
• Junior Josh Ayala (San Diego, Calif./Alexandria City/West Virginia Wesleyan), 1-for-4, SB, HP
• Junior Richard Gilboy (South Portland, Maine/South Portland), 2-for-2, R, 3 RBI, 3 BB, 2B
• Senior Colin Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan), 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 K in relief, win

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Joey Acker, 0-for-1, 3 R, 4 BB, 2 SB
• Junior Curt Boyd, 2-for-3, R, 5 RBI, BB, 2 2B, SF
• Junior Shane Starr, 2-for-5, 2 R
• Sophomore Andreas Boglis, 3-for-5, 2 R
• First-year Chase Philibotte, 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K in relief, loss

THE ACTION

• Boyd's two-out, two-run double put the Ravens ahead in the first inning.
• Cavossa socked a solo homer in the third, but an error gave Franklin Pierce the two-run lead back in the fourth, and the visitors were up 3-1.
• Gilboy's go-ahead two-out, two-run double capped a four-run bottom half, but the Ravens countered with a three-run fifth to go back up 6-5. Boyd again provided a go-ahead two-run double with two down.
• Graduate student Max Kolifrath (Millbury, Mass./Millbury) was plunked with the bases loaded to tie the game in the sixth, and sophomore Jerry Guzman (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Brunswick School) followed with a single to left field for a go-ahead RBI. Junior Colin Kinsella (Winthrop, Mass./Winthrop) added a sac fly to push the Purple Knights' lead to 8-6.
• Boyd's sac fly knotted the teams in the top of the seventh, finishing a two-run frame.
• In the home half, an infield error plated Weber and Pattison with what proved to be the winning runs, and Gilboy's RBI single back up the box pushed the lead to 11-8.
• In the meantime, Burke retired nine of the 10 batters he faced, including fanning the side in the ninth inning.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at No. 22 Southern New Hampshire, 12 p.m. doubleheader.
• The Penmen's national ranking is according to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).