Baseball Takes Two From Fisher College
Lynn, Mass. — Junior outfielder Steven Tramontozzi (Watertown, Mass.) went 5-for-8 with a home run, two doubles and seven RBI as the Framingham State College baseball team swept a non-conference doubleheader today against Fisher College at Breed Field in Lynn. The Rams won the first game 10-2 and then held off a late surge by Fisher to pick up a 10-9 win in the nightcap. With the wins, the Rams improve to 12-11 on the season, while Fishers evens its record at 16-16 with the two losses.
Freshman Joe Quinn (Assonet, Mass.) went the distance in game one and picked up the win to improve his record to 2-0 on the season. Quinn scattered 10 hits over seven innings surrendering two runs, both earned, with a walk and five strikeouts. Both runs Quinn allowed came off solo home runs in the fifth and sixth innings.
The Rams took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first as Daniel Tomasz (Newburyport, Mass.) led off the game with a single and came around to score on a sacrifice fly to left by junior Danny Chaisson (Watertown, Mass.).
Tramontozzi gave the Rams a 3-0 lead in the top of the third with a two out two run homerun, his third of the season. The Rams added a single run in the fourth on an RBI single by Justin Wojcik (Dracut, Mass.) to extend the lead to 4-0.
The Rams added four more in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Will Crofton (Hopkinton, Mass.) and a double by Tramontozzi that plated two runs. Tramontozzi scored the final run of the inning as he scored on a Fisher College error. Tomasz drove in the final two runs of the game in the top of the seventh on a single that scored Joe Sheehan (Watertown, Mass.) and Wojcik.
Tomasz went 4-for-5 in game one with two runs scored and two RBI, while Tramontozzi went 3-for-5 with a run scored, a home run, a double and four RBI. Outfielder Corey Ketterer (Plymouth, Mass.) also picked up three hits in the game and scored two runs.
In the second game, the Rams scored in each of the first four innings to take a commanding 10-1 lead. The Rams scored five in the first on a double by Tramontozzi that scored two and a three run home run from Sean Callahan (Watertown, Mass.).
Tramontozzi picked up his third RBI of the game and team leading 32nd of the season in the second inning as he drove in Ketterer with his second hit of the game. In the third inning, Chris Brassard (Fitchburg, Mass.) drove in one of the Rams run on an RBI double and came around to score on an error.
Callahan picked up his fourth RBI of the game in the fourth inning with a double and Connor Moriarty (Danville, NH) drove in Tramontozzi with the Rams tenth run on a sacrifice fly to right.
In the bottom of the fourth, Fisher was able to chip away at the Rams lead as they scored five runs off of Wojcik, who got the start in game two. Wojcik had cruised through the first three innings allowing only one unearned run on just three hits.
In the fourth, Edwin Pena led off the inning with a homerun and Mike Oliveira and Gary Lunnetta singled home runs cutting the Rams lead to 10-4. Two more runs came around to score on an error by the Rams in the outfield trimming the Rams lead to 10-6 after four.
Fisher added three runs in the sixth off of Framingham State relief pitchers Matthew Magazine (Marlborough, Mass.) and Mike Cain (Gloucester, Mass.) to pull within one run at 10-9, but Cain was able to shut down Fisher in the seventh to pick up his second save of the season.
Wojcik picked up the win in game two to even his record at 1-1 as he allowed six runs (three earned) on seven hits with six strikeouts in four innings of work. Callahan was 2-for-4 in the game with four RBI, while Tramontozzi was 2-for-3 with three RBI. Crofton chipped in three hits in game two.
The Rams return to action on Friday as they travel to WPI for a 3:30 p.m. game.