When and Where: May 21, 2021 – Hooksett, N.H. (Penmen Field)
Game 1 Score: Southern New Hampshire University 10, Adelphi University 0
Game 2 Score: Southern New Hampshire University 9, Adelphi University 3
Records: SNHU 24-6, AU 19-15

Redshirt-junior Dakota Mulcay (Goffstown, N.H.) hit two of the team's six home runs on the day in game one and redshirt-sophomore Alex Kennedy (Braintree, Mass.) drove in five runs in game two, as the 20th-ranked Southern New Hampshire University baseball team took the first two games of the Northeast-10 Championship series against Adelphi University on Friday at Penmen Field to capture the program's third NE10 title. SNHU rolled to a 10-0 victory in the opener, before posting a 9-3 in the second game.

LINKS: GAME 1 BOX SCORE | GAME 2 BOX SCORE

STANDOUT PERFORMERS

• Mulcay – 2-8, 2 home runs, 2 walks, 4 RBI, 3 runs
• Kennedy – 3-6, double, home run, 5 RBI, 2 runs
• Redshirt-junior Alex Gomes (Peabody, Mass.; 6-0) – 8.0 innings, 0 runs, 7 hits, 6 strikeouts, 2 walks (game 1)
• Graduate student Nick Artymowicz (Seaville, N.J.; 7-1) – 5.0 innings, 2 runs, 2 earned runs, 5 hits, 9 strikeouts, 2 walks (game 2)
• Grad student Marcus Chavez (Queens, N.Y.) – 3-7, double, home run, 2 walks, 3 RBI, 4 runs, 2 stolen bases
• Redshirt-freshman Michael LaRocca (Vero Beach, Fla.) – 3-8, 2 walks, home run, 2 RBI, run
• Redshirt-freshman Danniel Rivera (New Britain, Conn.) – 2-4, double, 6 walks, 2 runs, 4 stolen bases
• redshirt-junior Idelson Taveras (Lawrence, Mass.) – 4-9, 2 doubles, walk, RBI, 3 runs, 2 stolen bases

KEY MOMENTS - GAME 1

• The contest was scoreless into the bottom of the third inning when the Penmen bats warmed up to strike four times. RBI doubles from redshirt-freshman Christian Mercedes (Providence, R.I.) and Chavez started it before Mulcay delivered the big blow with a two-run homer to center that made it 4-0.
• Mulcay did it again in the fourth, stroking a two-run blast the opposite way to left-center to extend the SNHU advantage to 6-0.
• Four more in the eighth broke it open, as a Goldstein two-run shot and RBI singles from redshirt-junior Sam Henrie (Middleboro, Mass.) and LaRocca brought the score to an even 10-0.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE - GAME 1

• Mulcay (2 home runs, walk, 4 RBI, 3 runs), LaRocca (walk, RBI) and Kennedy (double, run) were all 2-for-4.
• Rivera was 1-for-1 with four walks, a run and two steals.
• Chavez (double, walk, RBI, 3 runs) and Mercedes (double, 2 walks, RBI, run, 2 steals) both went 1-for-3.
• Goldstein was 1-for-4 with the home run, two RBI and run scored.
• Henrie (RBI) and Taveras (double) each were 1-for-5.
• Freshman Trevor Anibal (Bedford, N.H.) tossed a scoreless ninth, allowing one hit, while striking out a batter.

KEY MOMENTS - GAME 2

• Sacrifice flies from Kennedy in both the second and fourth innings gave SNHU a 2-0 lead.
• After Adelphi, which was playing as the home team, pushed across a run in the fifth on a wild pitch, Southern New Hampshire answered with a five-run sixth inning in which they clobbered three home runs. A solo bomb off the bat of LaRocca led off the frame, before two-run homers from Kennedy and Chavez made it a 7-1 game.
• It was a five-run game in the seventh when a Taveras double and a third sac fly for Kennedy widened the margin to 9-2.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE - GAME 2

• Taveras finished 3-for-4 with a double, walk, RBI, three runs scored a pair of steals.
• Chavez was 2-for-4 with a home run, walk, two RBI, run scored and two steals.
• Henrie went 2-for-5 with two doubles and a pair of runs.
• Kennedy was 1-for-3 with a home run, five RBI and a run scored.
• Rivera went 1-for-3 with a double, pair of walks, a run and two steals.
• LaRocca turned in a 1-for-4 performance with a home run, walk, RBI and run scored.
• Redshirt-junior Jeffrey Praml (Bridgewater, N.J.) allowed one run on three hits over three innings of relief, striking out three and walking one.
• Graduate student Wesley Tobin (Portsmouth, N.H.) fired a perfect ninth to seal the crown.

NOTES

• Southern New Hampshire, ranked 20th in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Poll, improves to 17-8 (.680) in its eighth NE10 Championship appearance and captures its third NE10 title (2014, 2016) in as many trips to the finals.
• Kennedy was chosen as the Most Valuable Player of the NE10 Baseball Championship and earned a spot on the All-Championship Team, where he was joined by both Mulcay and Gomes. 
• SNHU now leads the all-time series with Adelphi, 12-6 (.667) and has won nine of the last 10 meetings, including four straight. The Penmen and Panthers had met once before in the NE10 Championship, with Southern New Hampshire earning a 2-0 victory in the 2014 title game.
• The Penmen wrap up their home record at 14-4 (.778) this season and are now 109-28 (.796) at Penmen Field since the start of the 2014 campaign.
• Mulcay's two home runs give him an even 10 on the season and a SNHU-record 24 for his career. The 10 bombs ties him with Derek Bauer (2016) for fourth on the program's single-season list and put him two shy of matching the record.
• Goldstein's long-ball was his second of the season and fifth of his career.
• Chavez' homer was his fourth of the season and the sixth of his career.
• LaRocca went deep for the third time in five contests and now has five on the season and in his career.
• Kennedy's home run was his first of the season third of his career.
• Taveras is 8-for-his-last-14 with three doubles, two RBI, six runs scored and five steals in the last three games.
• Henrie and Rivera both own seven-game hitting streaks and have a hit in 12 of their last 13.
• Mulcay had his five-game hit streak snapped in game two.

UP NEXT

• Southern New Hampshire, which earned the NE10's automatic bid to the NCAA East Regional (May 27-30), will now await the NCAA Selection Show (Sunday, May 23 - 10 p.m.) to learn more about their seeding, initial matchup and where they will be headed.

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