RENAUD’S HOME RUN LEADS COLLEGE TEAM PAST UNIVERSITY SQUAD, 6-3

COLLEGE BASEBALL FINAL SCORE
NEIBA New England College All-Star Game
College Division 6, University Division 3

At Boston, MA (Fenway Park)
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Game Box Score

BOSTON – Franklin Pierce University senior RF Kevin Renaud (Southbridge, MA) hit a three-run home run into the Monster seats in the fifth inning that provided the difference in the College Division’s 6-3 victory over the University Division in the 2008 New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association College Baseball All-Star Game at Fenway Park on Saturday.

The victory was the second straight and the fourth in the last six games for the College Division Team over the University squad. They out-hit the University squad 7-5, built a 6-1 lead and held on to the victory.

Southern Connecticut State University junior CF Karl Derbacher (Northford, CT) led off the game with an opposite-field home run into the Monster seats for a 1-0 College Division lead. They expanded the margin to 3-0 with two runs in the second on an RBI single by Southern Connecticut senior DH Anthony Fiorillo (New Haven, CT) and a run-scoring ground out by senior catcher Nick Lefeber (Branford, CT) from Middlebury.

Renaud’s home run gave the College team a 6-0 lead in the fifth. It scored Fiorillo, who singled, and Derbacher, who reached by an error. The three runs were unearned. The University Division team mounted a comeback with three runs in the sixth. Sophomore Brian Baudinet (Watertown, CT) from UMass singled, Dartmouth sophomore RF Nick Santomauro (North Caldwell, NJ) walked, Brown University junior CF Steve Daniels (Fox Point, WI) singled home Baudinet and Dartmouth junior Michael Pagliarula (Winchester, MA) hit a two-run single.

The University Division team brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh with runners on second and third with one out, but did not score. Trinity College senior Mike Regan (West Roxbury, MA) picked up the win, hurling two innings and allowing one hit and striking out three.

Renaud was the Player of the Game, while the University of Vermont’s Joe Serafin (Tariffville, CT) was the Pitcher of the Game with two innings pitched, no hits allowed and three strikeouts. Fiorillo was the lone batter to record multiple hits, finishing 2 for 2.

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