GAME 1 BOX SCORE | GAME 2 BOX SCORE
RAPID REACTION WITH SENIOR CALEB POTTER

When and Where: April 18, 2018 – Hooksett, N.H. (Penmen Field)
Game 1 Score: Southern New Hampshire University 11, Assumption College 5
Game 2 Score: Southern New Hampshire University 10, Assumption College 1 (7 inn.)
Records: SNHU 22-12 (9-5 NE10, 8-2 NE10 NE), Assumption 16-19-1 (10-7-1 NE10, 7-2 NE10 NE)

Senior Kyle Pangallo (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) went 6-for-8 and knocked in seven runs, as the Southern New Hampshire University baseball team took a pair of games from Assumption College on Wednesday at Penmen Field, including a key divisional matchup that gave the Penmen a one-game lead over the Greyhounds in the NE10 Northeast Division. SNHU recorded an 11-5 victory in game one and then rolled to a 10-1 triumph in a seven-inning second game. 

Pangallo, who was on base seven times, collected a pair of doubles and scored two runs in the doubleheader. Graduate student Thomas Buonopane (Peabody, Mass.) went 5-for-8 with an RBI and three runs scored, while senior Caleb Potter (Mentor, Ohio) was 4-for-8 with a home run, four RBI and four runs scored. Redshirt-sophomore Joshua Goldstein (Haverhill, Mass.) also had a solid day at the plate, going 3-for-7 with three RBI and scoring a run. 

In game one, Assumption jumped on some early ineffectiveness from senior Mitchell Powers (Portland, Maine) to push a pair across in the top of the first inning and take a 2-0 lead. 

Southern New Hampshire would chop the deficit in half in the bottom of the inning before Potter led off the second with a solo shot to left to even the score, 2-2. Later in the frame, back-to-back two-out doubles from Pangallo and Goldstein snapped the tie and put SNHU in front, 3-2. 

The Penmen then hung four in the third, with walks to freshmen Dakota Mulcay (Goffstown, N.H.) and Sam Henrie (Middleboro, Mass.), sandwiched around a Potter double to center, loading the bases with no one out. Pangallo delivered two batters later with a one-out, two-run single to right-center that added an insurance run. Goldstein followed with a base hit to the same spot to plate another run, before sophomore Tom Blandini (Bow, N.H.) stroked a two-out single to left-center to nudge the lead to 7-2. 

Powers settled down and cruised into the fifth before running into trouble. After a strikeout to begin the inning, three straight base hits, including an RBI single from Jared Brescia, made it a three-run game. Three batters later, Trevor McQuade's two-out, bases-loaded single through the right side brought in a pair that trimmed the Greyhounds' deficit to 7-5 and ended Powers' outing. 

Potter's fielder's choice ground out in the sixth made it 8-5, before the Penmen capitalized on a two-out error in the seventh to hang a three-spot. Grad student Taylor Olmstead (Greenwich, Conn.) led off the frame with a homer to center and, following two straight groundouts, a dropped pop up by the shortstop extended the inning. Buonopane took advantage with a single to center that knocked in a run, while a hit by pitch to redshirt-junior John Stanton (Sandwich, Mass.) and a walk to Mulcay loaded the bases for Potter, who drew another walk to make it 11-5. 

Buonopane was 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored, while Potter (walk, three RBI, two runs), Pangallo (two RBI, run), Goldstein (two RBI, run) and Blandini (walk, RBI, two runs) were all 2-for-4. Olmstead (walk, RBI, run) and Stanton were each 1-for-4, with Mulcay going 0-for-2, drawing three walks and scoring a run. 

Powers was charged with five runs on six hits, while striking out five and walking one, over four-and-two-thirds innings. Sophomore Wesley Tobin (Portsmouth, N.H.) earned the win to improve to 2-1 on the season, as he struck out a pair in three-and-a-third perfect innings. Sophomore Nick Artymowicz (Seaville, N.J.) tossed a perfect ninth. 

Southern New Hampshire jumped on the board in game two with three in the second inning, as a 6-4-3 double play with the bases loaded netted the Penmen their first run, before RBI singles from Pangallo and Goldstein made it 3-0. 

SNHU doubled its lead with three more in the third. After Buonopane was hit with a pitch to begin the frame, walks to Stanton and Mulcay loaded the bases before junior Joshua Zbierski (Stafford Springs, Conn.) drew another walk to force in a run. Pangallo's two-out, two-run single to right-center capped the damage and extended the lead to 6-0. 

Pangallo made 7-0 in the fifth when his double to right-center plated Zbierski, who drew a lead-off walk and stole second. 

Jake Byrne finally put the Greyhounds on the board with a two-out, opposite-field solo home run to right in the sixth, but the Penmen would answer with three in the bottom half, as an RBI double to right from Potter and run-scoring singles by freshman Idelson Taveras (Lawrence, Mass.) and Pangallo ran the lead to 10-1. 

Pangallo finished 4-for-4 with a career-high five RBI and a run scored. Buonopane was 2-for-3 and scored a run, while Potter went 2-for-4 with an RBI and pair of runs scored. Goldstein was 1-for-3 with an RBI. Zbierski did not record an official at bat, but was on base four times and scored twice. Stanton went 1-for-1 with two walks and a run scored, with Mulcay going 0-for-1, walking twice and scoring a pair of runs.

In his first start of the season, redshirt-junior Jake Walkinshaw (Seymour, Conn.) fired four shutout innings, allowing three hits, walking striking out a pair and issuing a walk. Junior Hayden Manning (Portland, Conn.) walked two batters and recorded a strikeout in a third of an inning. Freshman Jeffrey Praml (Bridgewater, N.J.) gave up one run on one hit, while striking out one, in an inning-and-two-thirds. Senior Ivon Clough (Dublin, N.H.) struck out two in a perfect inning of work. 

Notes:
- The Penmen have now won 11 of 15 and snap a tie with Assumption atop the NE10 Northeast Division to move one game up.
- Southern New Hampshire is now 8-2 at home this season and moves to 67-15 (.817) at Penmen Field since the start of the 2014 season.
- Pangallo's 4-for-4 outing in the second game marks the second time he has pulled off the feat in the last six contests. During that span, he is 12-for-22 (.545) with 10 RBI and five runs scored.
- Potter's sixth home run of the season tied him for the team lead, while Olmstead's long-ball was his first of the year.
- Blandini extended his hitting streak to 14 games in the opener, but saw it come to an end with an 0-for-4 performance in game two. 

Up Next:
The Penmen return to action Saturday, April 21 (11 a.m.) when they take on Saint Anselm College. The next home game for SNHU is Wednesday, April 25 (6 p.m.) when it plays host to Franklin Pierce University at Penmen Field in a game that will air on FOX College Sports.

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