Box Score BOX SCORE
When and Where: March 13, 2017 – West Palm Beach, Fla. (Rubin Park)
Score: Southern New Hampshire University 5, Palm Beach Atlantic University 3
Records: SNHU 10-3, PBAU 14-9
Senior Cam Oliveira (Tewksbury, Mass.) went 3-for-4 and collected two RBI, including the eventual game winner, to lead the 11th-ranked Southern New Hampshire University baseball team to a 5-3 come-from-behind triumph against Palm Beach Atlantic University on Monday at Rubin Park.
A pair of two-out solo home runs from Sean Visconti in the first and third innings staked the Sailfish to a 2-0 lead. The Penmen cut their deficit in half in the fourth, however, as junior Caleb Potter (Mentor, Ohio) led off with a double to center, went to third on a single through the right side from sophomore Kyle Ruth (Albany, N.Y.) and scored on an RBI fielder's choice by redshirt-junior Taylor Olmstead (Greenwich, Conn.).
Southern New Hampshire then hung a four-spot in the fifth to jump in front, 5-2. Junior Kyle Pangallo (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) led off with a walk before singles from redshirt-junior Ryan Sullivan (Hopkinton, Mass.) and senior Derek Bauer (Millis, Mass.) loaded the bases with no one out. A sacrifice fly to center from Potter tied the game before Oliveira delivered a two-out, two-run single to center that made it 4-2 in favor of the Penmen. Olmstead, who was hit by a pitch right before Oliveira's base knock, later scored on a wild pitch to cap the damage.
The third two-out solo shot of the day against junior starter Ivon Clough (Dublin, N.H.) in the sixth – this one from Andrew Calderone – trimmed the Palm Beach Atlantic deficit to a pair at 5-3, but Clough used a strikeout to get out of the inning and graduate student Stephen Fortuna (Metuchen, N.J.) would not allow a run to score the rest of the way.
Clough (2-0) allowed three runs on eight hits, while striking out six and walking a pair, over six-and-a-third innings. Fortuna gave up just a single hit, as he fanned four and walked one in two-and-two-thirds innings of work for his first save of the season.
Potter and Olmstead both finished 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored, while Pangallo, Sullivan and Bauer were all 1-for-4 and scored a run. Ruth was also 1-for-4.
Notes:
- Since losing back-to-back games for the first time in nearly two years, SNHU has won six-in-a-row.
- Clough is now a perfect 6-0 in his career with the Penmen.
- Fortuna's save was the third of his career and first since May 15, 2015 in the NCAA East Regional.
Up Next:
The Penmen return to action Wednesday, March 15 (6 p.m.) when they take on Nova Southeastern University.
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