STANDOUT PERFORMERS

• Wouters – 3-for-5, RBI, R, SB
• Sophomore Jake Pisano (Hamden, Conn.) – 2-for-4, RBI, BB
• Senior Jorge Burgos (Santo Domingo, D.R.) – 1-for-3, 2 RBI, R, HR
• Junior Harry Vargas Segura (Bronx, N.Y.) – 1-for-4, RBI, R, SB
• Sophomore Zach Brassill (No. Hampton, N.H.) – 6.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 8 K, 2 BB
• Graduate student Zachary Gitschier (Lowell, Mass.) –  2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 K, 1 BB (win; 2-3)
• Sophomore Frankie DeMaro (Newburgh, N.Y.) – 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 K, 0 BB (save; 2)

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Southern New Hampshire struck for three in the top of the first, including an RBI single to left from Pisano.
• Franklin Pierce scored one in the home half and tied it, 3-3, on a two-run home run in the third by Kiobel Lugo.
• Burgos put the Penmen on top, 4-3, in the fourth with a solo home run.
• The score stayed that way into the bottom of the seventh when Franklin Pierce capitalized on an error to score a pair of unearned runs that flipped it in front, 5-4.
• Sophomore Jake Risedorf (Barkhamsted, Conn.) began the ninth inning with a walk and then stole second, before back-to-back strikeouts pushed the Penmen to the brink. A pinch-hit walk to grad student Jaime Roldan (Boston, Mass.) put the tying run in scoring position for Vargas Segura, who came through with a single through the right side that tied the game. Wouters followed with an RBI base hit to right that gave SNHU a 6-5 lead.
• DeMaro came on and fired a 1-2-3 ninth.

INSIDE THE BOX

• Risedorf (run, walk two steals) and freshman Joel Valera (Boston, Mass.) were both 1-for-3.
• Freshman Nater Wachter (Concord, N.H.) finished 0-for-3, with an RBI, run, two walks and a steal.

NOTES

• Southern New Hampshire, receiving votes in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division II Poll, has won eight of its last nine.
• SNHU, which clinched the NE10 Northeast Division for the seventh straight season and the eighth time, overall, with Friday's doubleheader sweep of FPU, won the division outright with Saturday's win.
• The Penmen had already earned an NE10 Championship first round home game Tuesday, May 7 (3:30 p,m.), but now know they will play host to Assumption University at Penmen Field. SNHU, with a win over the Greyhounds, would host NE10 Championship Weekend on Thursday-Saturday, May 9-11.
• Southern New Hampshire now leads the all-time series with Franklin Pierce, 66-50-1, and has won 26 of the last 30 meetings with the Ravens, including 11 of 12 on the road.
• Burgos' home run is his program-record 16th of the season and 19th of his career.
• Wachter leads the NE10 with 56 RBI.
• Vargas Segura continues to pace the league with 40 steals, which ties him for the eighth most in a single season in NE10 history.
• Over his last three outings, Gitschier has thrown six-and-two-thirds innings and allowed just a single unearned run and four hits, while striking out five and walking only one.

UP NEXT

• The Penmen will play host to Assumption on Tuesday (May 7) at 3:30 p.m. in an NE10 Championship first round contest at Penmen Field.