Baseball Falls To WNEC, 8-3
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 8, 2005 – Springfield College junior third basemen
Derek Yvon (East Longmeadow, Mass.) went 1-for-4 on the day with an RBI and a run scored, but Western New England College held the Pride to just five hits enroute to an 8-3 victory in baseball action this afternoon on Berry-Allen Field.
The Pride (6-10) scored three times in the bottom of the ninth led by Yvon’s RBI double, but struggled offensively throughout the first eight innings.
Golden Bears (10-3) junior Jason Connelly pitched a complete game, striking out 12, while just allowing two earned runs. Senior Chris Mahoney smashed a solo homerun in the fifth inning and went 2-for-4 on the day.
The Pride travel to Worcester, Mass on Saturday (April 9) and will play NEWMAC rival Clark University in a double-header beginning at 12:00 pm.
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Head Coach Mark Simeone
Former Springfield College standout
Mark Simeone will enter his 17th season as the head baseball coach at his alma mater in 2013 . The reigning NEWMAC Coach of the year is coming off a successful 2012 campaign in which the Pride went 20-15.
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