Acevedo Drives in Six as Baseball Defeats Salve Regina 12-9
Newport, R.I. – Senior Pedro Acevedo (Fall River, Mass.) belted out three hits and drove in six runs as the Framingham State University baseball team ran their current win streak to five games with a 12-9 victory this afternoon over Salve Regina University at Reynolds Field.
The Rams improve to 10-7 on the season with the win as Salve Regina University dropped its fifth straight to fall to 6-12 on the year.
Acevedo doubled his season RBI total with six in the game and was the offensive spark along with junior outfielder Will Crofton (Hopkinton, Mass.) who also collected three hits and drove in three runs.
Five different Seahawks had multiple hits including centerfielder Salvatore Cumella (Ridgefield, N.J.) who also scored two runs. Senior infielder Nicholas Politelli (Warwick, R.I.) had his second straight multi-hit game and joined fellow senior Matt Capone (East Providence, R.I.) with two hits apiece. Catcher Dominic Di Sano (Central Falls, R.I.) and designated hitter Sean Becker (Richmond, Va.) both reached base twice via hits.
The Rams tagged Salve starting pitcher Matthew Croteau (Cheshire, Conn.) with his first loss in three starts as Framingham State scored five times in the first two innings.
Acevedo doubled in two runs with two outs in the first after Cam Couillard (North Andover, Mass.) reached on a one-out error and Will Crofton (Hopkinton, Mass.) singled. In the second, Matt Roberge (Lowell, Mass.) scored on a throwing error as he advanced on a wild pitch and Couillard and Justin Forman (Watertown, Mass.) each drove in a run with an RBI hit to push the Rams lead to 5-1 after.
Salve Regina got on the board in the third inning when Capone doubled home sophomore shortstop Daniel Donohue (Westbury, N.Y.) who had reached on a fielder's choice.
Crofton had an RBI single in the Framingham fourth inning driving in Forman for a 6-1 lead, before Seahawk second baseman Joe Haley (No. Kingstown, R.I.) singled in Politelli and later scored on an infield error in the bottom of the sixth.
In the seventh frame, Acevedo plated a single run for the visitors while Cumella opened the Seahawk half with a single. He advanced in succession on a passed ball, wild pitch, and then came home from third when Politelli reached on an error. Di Sano delivered an RBI single later in the inning to close the deficit to two-run margin, 7-5.
In the eighth inning after two were out and nobody on, Salve Regina surrendered a two-run single to Crofton and a three-run double to Acevedo making it 12-5 in favor of the visitors.
The Seahawks got three of those runs back in their eighth inning when Donohue drove in Nicholas Gaj (Pawtucket, R.I.) on a groundout to first, a Politelli sac fly plated Becker, and Cumella came around from second after Capone reached on a throwing error.
Becker drove in Nicholas Dell'Anno (Reading, Mass.) with the game's final run in the ninth.
Freshman Zach Kirby (Rochester, Mass.) started on the hill for the Rams and earned his first victory of the season going six innings and allowing three runs, one earned, on seven hits with a strikeout. Classmate Taylor Spaulding (Westborough, Mass.) a third of an inning and surrendered two runs on two hits before giving way to junior Chris DiCecca (Winchester, Mass.) who closed out the inning and also allowed two runs. Fellow freshman Patrick Murray (Framingham, Mass.) closed out the game for the Rams going the final two innings and allowing two unearned runs on two hits.
Salve Regina travels to Wenham, Mass., on Saturday for a doubleheader with Wentworth Institute of Technology, while Framingham opens its conference schedule at home with a pair of games against Bridgewater State on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Release courtesy of SRU Sports Information.