NEWS

 

KEENE, N.H. – Right fielder Mike Montville (Baldwinsville, NY/Le Moyne)

went 2-for-5 with a three-run home run, two runs scored and four runs

batted in to lead Sanford past the Keene Swamp Bats, 9-4, in New England

Collegiate Baseball (NECBL) action on Tuesday night at Alumni Field in

front of 1,743 fans.

 

The Mainers improve to 2-1 on the season. Keene falls to 2-1 overall.

 

Mainers’ right-hander pitcher Nate Jones (Greenland, NH/Wake Forest)

earned the win in his first appearance/start of the season going 5.1

innings, yielding just one hit, one run, three walks and two strikeouts.

Swamp Bats’ starter David Mahoney (Colchester, CT/UConn) was chased from

the contest early lasting only one-and-two-thirds innings on six hits,

six runs (all earned), three walks and one strikeout.

 

Sanford opened up the scoring in the top of the first as Montville

executed a perfect hit-and-run with teammate Marlon Calbi (Montclair,

NJ/Villanova) scoring him from second base on a single up the middle.

 

With the bases loaded, Matt Verrier (Norway, ME/Maine) pushed the

Mainers ahead 3-0 notching a two-run double to deep center field plating

Nick LaCroix (Grafton, MA/Franklin Pierce) and Montville. 

 

The Swamp Bats defense escaped further damage as first baseman Paul

Kronenfeld (Greensboro, NC/Georgia Tech) was gunned down at home plate

trying to score from first. Keene centerfielder Brett DeLoach

(Blackshear, GA/Georgia) rifled a throw to Alex Chittenden

(Indianapolis, IN/Louisville) and the shortstop threw a strike to

catcher David Lyon (Emporium, PA/Kent St.) to keep it a 3-0 score.

 

In the second with two runners on, Montville lifted his first homer of

the season to centerfield giving the Mainers a 6-0 lead. Kronenfeld

followed with a double to right center to chase Mahoney out of the game.

 

 

Relief pitcher TJ Ferguson (Westmoreland, NH/Franklin Pierce) held

Sanford scoreless for the next three plus innings giving up zero hits,

two walks and four strikeouts.

 

In the sixth after a leadoff walk by Lincoln Sanborn (Standish, ME/St.

John’s), Pat Devlin (Tewksbury, MA/UMass-Lowell) scorched a double to

left field plating Sanborn from first base to make it 7-0. Kronenfeld

added to the score with an RBI single to centerfield scoring Devlin from

third.

 

The Swamp Bats finally got on the board in the bottom half of the sixth

as left fielder Kevin Brown (Northborough, MA/Bryant Univ.) connected

for a two-run home run to center field off of Sanford relief pitcher

Ryan Leach (Farmingdale, ME/Franklin Pierce.) Jones was charged with one

run on the two-run shot as he walked Esteban Gomez (Houston, TX/San

Jacinto Coll.) before exiting the contest.

 

Chittended cut into the gap in the seventh inning with a bloop single to

right field that brought Colby May (Guyton, GA/Georgia) home from second

base. May reached earlier in the inning on a hit-by-pitch.

 

Toadvine collected Keene’s only multi-hit game with a 2-for-4

performance at the plate and one run scored.

 

Keene returns to action tomorrow at home against the Holyoke Blue Sox

with first pitch slated for 6:30 pm.

 

 

Shawn Medeiros

Castleton State College 

Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Keene Swamp Bats

Director of Media Relations and Broadcasting

Cell: (774) 526-5805

Office: (802) 468-6172