BEVERLY Behind a six-inning scoreless effort from Kevin Gould (Rollinsford, N.H.), the Endicott baseball team blanked Salem State University, 4-0, in their respective season openers on a chilly Monday evening at North Field.
Kevin Gould’s Post Game Comments
Gould was dominant for the Gulls in his first collegiate start as the sophomore righty yielded just two hits and zero walks alongside a career-high six strikeouts on just 70 pitches (47 for strikes). The backend of the bullpen did the rest as Colby Morris (Newburyport, Mass.) buzz-sawed the Vikings for two innings, and Nick Quattro (Canton, Conn.) closed out the ninth on just nine pitches.
Salem State starter Mike Richardson (Belmont, Mass.) took the loss (0-1) on four innings pitched, seven hits, four runs (all earned), one free pass, and three punchouts.
Offensively, Endicott struck for three runs in the first inning via a wild pitch, a sacrifice fly from Michael DeDonato (Chelmsford, Mass.), and an RBI base-hit to left field by Michael Casciano (Somers, Conn.).
Nick Berno (St. Albans, Vt.) jump-started the three-run frame with an infield single down the third base line before he took an extra base on Mike Kochiss‘ (Fairfield, Conn.) single to right-center and later scored on the wild pitch.
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In the fourth, Steve Morganelli (Milford, Mass.) all but sealed the win with a run-producing RBI double down the right field line that scored Casciano from second base.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- The Gulls turned three double plays, including a bases loaded two-out 5-4-3 twin-killing that was turned by Anthony Serina (Portsmouth, R.I.), DeDonato, and Corbin Hyde (Lewiston, Maine), in respective order.
- Morris pounded the strike zone throwing 13 strikes on 18 pitches in his two innings of work.
- Berno and Kochiss both had two-hit games. The duo combined for 35 multi-hit games last year.
- Casciano also went 2-for-3 with one run scored and one RBI from the seventh spot in the lineup.
- Matt Bald (De Pere, Wisc.) put together a 12-pitch at-bat before grounding out to the pitcher in the eighth.
- The Gulls did not allow an extra-base hit on the night.
FOR THE FOES
- Will Twiss (Middleton, Mass.), Stephen Keskindis (Stoneham, Mass.), and Tim Woods (Wilmington, Mass.) combined for four scoreless innings out of the pen for the Vikings.
- Twiss pitched two scoreless frames and also struck out two, while Keskindis went one and had a strikeout, and Woods wrapped up the eighth with two punchouts.
- Alex Toomey (Beverly, Mass.), Joe White (Bellingham, Mass.), Joe Kasper (Lynn, Mass.), and Nick Day (Lynn, Mass.) all had singles in the loss.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (1-0) takes on No. 7/8 nationally ranked Ramapo on Sunday, March 12 in Winter Haven, Florida in a doubleheader at 1:30 and 4:30 PM, respectively. Salem State (0-1) plays Aurora University on Friday, March 10 in Tucson, Arizona at 4 PM.Â
Coach Bryan Haley’s Post Game Comments
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