NEWS

 

KEENE, NH – Brett Doran (Milford, CT/Stanford) and Nicholas Ferraresi

(Wellington, FL/Columbia) combined for seven RBI’s to lead the Mystic

Schooners over the Keene Swamp Bats, 10-5, in New England Collegiate

Baseball League (NECBL) action on Saturday at Alumni Field in front of

1,675 fans.

 

The Schooners improve to 14-17 overall. The Swamp Bats fall to 23-13 on

the season.

 

Doran went 4-for-4 at the plate with three runs scored and two doubles

to go along with his four runs batted in. Ferraresi was 3-for-4 on the

night with a two-run home run in the fourth inning.

 

Alex Norris (Clearwater, FL/Florida Gulf Coast) earned the win (5-0) on

five-and-one-thirds innings of work, nine hits, four runs (all

unearned), two walks and one strikeout. Brad Monroe (Hampton,

NH/Southern NH) suffered the loss (3-3) on four innings, five runs, six

hits, one walk and one strikeout.

 

Doran picked up two-of-his-four RBI’s in the first inning with a bloop

single to left field plating teammates Kevin Casey (Cherry Hill,

NJ/Lafayette) and Christian Griffiths (Apple Valley, CA/Stanford) for an

early 2-0 advantage. Both Casey and Griffiths notched singles earlier in

the frame.

 

Casey extended the Schooners lead in the third with a solo shot to right

field to push the score to 3-0.

 

In the next half inning, Brett DeLoach (Blackshear, GA/Georgia)

responded for the Swamp Bats with his team-leading 31st RBI of the

season on a double to left field bringing home Kevin Brown

(Northborough, MA/Bryant) from second base for a 3-1 deficit.

 

Ferraresi answered quickly for Mystic in the top of the fourth with a

two-run blast to left centerfield, his fourth round-tripper this summer,

to increase the Schooners gap to 5-1. 

 

In the bottom of the sixth, Keene pushed across three runs highlighted

by a two-run single up the middle from Alex Chittenden (Indianapolis,

IN/Louisville) to make it 6-4.

 

Mystic’s offense thwarted any chance of a Swamp Bats comeback in the

next half inning with three-runs to break the game open at 9-4.. With

runners at second and third, Doran lined a two-run single for his fourth

hit of the contest and came around to score later in the inning on a

fielding error.

 

DeLoach added to his RBI total in the bottom of the ninth inning with a

solo home run to left centerfield off of Schooners reliever Anthony

Kliniske (Grafton, ND/North Dakota St. Univ.), his seventh of the

season, to cut into the deficit at 10-5.

 

Swamp Bats third baseman Colby May (Guyton, GA/Georgia) flashed the

leather twice in the game saving a pair of potential runs from reaching

the scoreboard. Both plays, occurring in the second and fifth innings,

were very similar for May as the third baseman made two outstretched

dives in the hole between third and short on two one-hoppers robbing

hits away from Scott Kelleher (Farmington, CT/Lafayette) and Griffiths.

 

The Swamp Bats return to action on Tuesday, July 26 against Mystic at

6:30 pm after a two-day layoff.

 

 

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