NEWS

Montpelier, VT – Center fielder Mark Onorati (Williston Park,

NY/Manhattan) went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and one RBI as the Keene

Swamp Bats beat the Vermont Mountaineers, 8-3, in New England Collegiate

Baseball League (NECBL) action on Wednesday night at Montpelier

Recreational Field.

 

Keene improves to 12-13 overall and 9-8 in the Western Division. Vermont

falls to 10-13 on the season.

 

Frost (2-0) pitched six innings, allowing three runs (all unearned), six

hits, no walks and two strikeouts. Preston Wasmund (Rome, NY/New York

Tech) suffered the loss (2-2) on five-and-two-thirds innings pitched, 11

hits, six runs (one earned), one walk and one punchout.

 

Tyler Maloof (Winder, GA/Georgia) tallied his fifth save of the season

completing three innings of scoreless baseball, yielding three hits, one

walk and two strikeouts.

 

Ben Klafczynski (Medina, OH/Kent St.) gave Keene an early 1-0 advantage

in the first scoring Onorati from second base with a RBI double to left

field.

 

Both teams went scoreless over the next five-and-a-half innings of play

until the Swamp Bats tallied five runs in the top of the sixth inning.

All five runs in the frame were unearned due to two fielding miscues.

 

Designated hitter Jay Ponciano (Vancouver, WA/Washington St.) and

catcher Tim Fontaine (Worcester, MA/UMass Boston) collected back-to-back

RBI singles, Onorati knocked in a runner with a double down the left

field line and shortstop Tyler Bernard (Valley Center, CA/Arizona St.)

notched a RBI base knock.

 

Onorati capped the scoring in the frame coming home from third as

Bernard was putout 8-2-4 at second base.

 

Vermont responded in the bottom half with three runs off of Frost that

were all unearned.

 

Shortstop Jantzen Witte (Arlington, TX/Texas Christian) smacked home a

run with a double to left field and right fielder Zach Babbit (Richmond,

CA/Sierra) connected on a two-run single to right center field to

highlight the scoring.

 

The Swamp Bats added two insurance runs in the eighth inning as Bernard

lifted a sacrifice fly to center field and Klafczynski picked up his

second run batted in with a single to left center field.

 

Klafczynski finished the night going 2-for-5 with two runs batted in,

one double and one stolen base.

 

Keene and Vermont finish up a home-and-home set tomorrow at Alumni Field

in Keene, NH with first pitch scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

 

Shawn Medeiros

 Castleton State College 

Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Keene Swamp Bats

Media Relations Director

Cell: (774) 526-5805

Office: (802) 468-6172