Spring Break
Rhody baseball extends win streak to six with two more wins in Fla.
Brandon Gearing
Issue date: 3/11/09 Section: Sports
03/11/09 - The University of Rhode Island baseball team wrapped up a successful trip to Florida last weekend by defeating Fairfield University 4-3 and Ohio State University 8-6.
The wins were the fifth and sixth in a row for Rhody on a road trip that included a marquee win against perennial powerhouse Miami University on March 3.
Ohio State is also ranked No. 25 in the collegiate baseball poll.
"It was a great road trip," head coach Jim Foster said. "I'm very happy with the way the guys have been getting after it."
In Friday's contest, Rhody squared off against a Fairfield team whom it had beaten just three days prior, 12-6.
Junior Dan Rossignol got the start for the Rams and went 5.2 innings, allowing five hits and one earned run.
The lone run came across in the bottom of the second inning, as the Stag's Mike Joyce belted a double to left-center scoring teammate Jason Rago to put Fairfield up 1-0.
Rossignol forced the next better to ground into a would-be final out, but a Rhody error kept the Fairfield attack alive.
With runners on first and third, Rossignol was able to tiptoe out of trouble, catching the Stags' Mark Skrapits looking to end the inning.
Fairfield starting pitcher Sam Robertson took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before URI sophomore and gorhody.com Player of the Week, Tom Coulombe, roped a double to left-center, scoring junior Oliver Palmer who had reached base on a walk.
Robertson was then replaced by Dan Gallagher, who abruptly plunked two Rhody batters, loading the bases for junior Zoey Angulo.
Angulo was unable to cash in, as he grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning with the score tied at one.
With two outs in the bottom of the sixth, Fairfield's Tucker Nathans knocked Rossignol out of the game with double in the gap. Nathans was able to advance to third on a throwing error.
Foster then handed to the ball to sophomore Ken Graveline in relief.
The wins were the fifth and sixth in a row for Rhody on a road trip that included a marquee win against perennial powerhouse Miami University on March 3.
Ohio State is also ranked No. 25 in the collegiate baseball poll.
"It was a great road trip," head coach Jim Foster said. "I'm very happy with the way the guys have been getting after it."
In Friday's contest, Rhody squared off against a Fairfield team whom it had beaten just three days prior, 12-6.
Junior Dan Rossignol got the start for the Rams and went 5.2 innings, allowing five hits and one earned run.
The lone run came across in the bottom of the second inning, as the Stag's Mike Joyce belted a double to left-center scoring teammate Jason Rago to put Fairfield up 1-0.
Rossignol forced the next better to ground into a would-be final out, but a Rhody error kept the Fairfield attack alive.
With runners on first and third, Rossignol was able to tiptoe out of trouble, catching the Stags' Mark Skrapits looking to end the inning.
Fairfield starting pitcher Sam Robertson took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before URI sophomore and gorhody.com Player of the Week, Tom Coulombe, roped a double to left-center, scoring junior Oliver Palmer who had reached base on a walk.
Robertson was then replaced by Dan Gallagher, who abruptly plunked two Rhody batters, loading the bases for junior Zoey Angulo.
Angulo was unable to cash in, as he grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning with the score tied at one.
With two outs in the bottom of the sixth, Fairfield's Tucker Nathans knocked Rossignol out of the game with double in the gap. Nathans was able to advance to third on a throwing error.
Foster then handed to the ball to sophomore Ken Graveline in relief.
