One down, One to go

Junior Patrick Shanahan earned the win for Fisher

Greensburg, PA - The Fisher College Baseball team took game one of the best of three series from KIAC Champion Brescia University today, winning 3-0. Junior Patrick Shanahan (Haverhill, MA) dominated in his complete game win. Shanahan scattered 6 hits over 9 innings while striking out 5 batters.

"Feels great to earn the win, but we won as a team. I am only as good as my defense is behind me." said Shanahan after the game. "Hopefully we can continue this momentum into tomorrow's game and close out the series."

The offense was supplied by the 4-5-6 hitters in the Falcon order. They combined for 6 of the teams 7 hits. Senior Tom Englehardt (Bradford, MA) displayed why he is a three time Sunrise Conference Player of the Year and 2009 NAIA Pre Season All American, by going 2-3 with a Home Run (appox. 380 feet), an RBI and 3 runs scored. Fellow classmate, Eddy Delcarmen (Boston, MA) collected 2 hits and junior Edwin Pena (Union City, NJ) knocked in an RBI with his own 2-3 performance. Junior Juan Eusebio (Union City, NJ) added a single and an RBI to account for all of the Fisher offense.

Fisher scored first in the bottom of the second inning. Englehardt led off with a walk, moved up to second on Delcarmen's single. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch. Pena then lifted a fly ball to left, which allowed Englehardt to tag and score what proved to be the game winning run.

Shanahan worked himself into a jam in the top of the third. With two out and runners on first and second, Shanahan hit Jon Troutman to load the bases. Shanahan settled down and struck out Justin McCormick to end the threat.

Fisher added to the scoring when they were able to push across another run in the bottom of the 4th. Englehardt singled to begin the frame. He advance all the way to third when Pena singled to right, the Brescia right fielder misplayed the ball which allowed Englehardt to go to third and Pena to move up to second. With two outs, Eusebio singled to right which allowed Englehardt to score and give Fisher a 2-0 advantage.

Shanahan gave up a lead off triple to begin the 5th inning. He was able to work around it by getting Patrick Ross to ground out to third, Martel London to line out to first and Dave Roberts to ground out to second.

Fisher would cap the scoring in the bottom of the 8th when Englehardt homered to deep right off of Brescia University reliever Wes Walden.

In the 9th, Shanahan was able to get Merrill to ground into a fielder's choice with runners at first and second to end the game and give Fisher the 1-0 series lead.

Fisher will look to close out the series tomorrow when senior Jarlin Gomez (Lawrence, MA) takes the mound at 11am for game two.

Game One Box Score

Brescia Univ 0 (29-21)

Player                    AB  R  H RBI BB SO PO  A LOB
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Martel London cf.........  4  0  0  0   0  1  1  0   0
Dave Roberts lf..........  4  0  0  0   0  1  1  0   1
Jon Troutman 3b..........  3  0  0  0   0  0  1  0   0
Justin McCormick c.......  4  0  0  0   0  1  6  0   3
Jared Votaw dh...........  4  0  1  0   0  0  0  0   0
Addison Rouse pr........  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0   0
Matt Boyd 1b.............  4  0  2  0   0  0  9  1   0
Steve Vasquez rf.........  4  0  0  0   0  1  2  1   1
Johnny Merrill 2b........  4  0  2  0   0  0  2  5   2
Patrick Ross ss..........  3  0  1  0   0  1  2  3   1
Ronney Borjas p..........  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0   0
Wes Walden p............  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  1   0
Totals................... 34  0  6  0   0  5 24 11   8

Fisher College 3 (28-18-1)

Player                    AB  R  H RBI BB SO PO  A LOB
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Mike Oliveira 2b.........  1  0  0  0   0  0  0  3   0
Gary Lunetta 1b..........  4  0  0  0   0  0 13  0   0
Kevin Ryan ss............  3  0  0  0   1  1  0  6   1
Thomas Englehardt 3b.....  3  3  2  1   1  0  1  3   2
Eddy Delcarmen rf........  4  0  2  0   0  1  1  0   0
Edwin Pena c.............  3  0  2  1   0  0  5  0   0
JJ Navas dh..............  3  0  0  0   0  2  0  0   0
Juan Eusabio lf..........  3  0  1  1   0  1  1  0   2
Zach Thompson cf.........  2  0  0  0   1  1  5  0   0
Patrick Shanahan p.......  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  1   0
Totals................... 26  3  7  3   3  6 27 13   6

Score by Innings                    R  H  E
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Brescia Univ........ 000 000 000 -  0  6  1
Fisher College...... 010 100 01X -  3  7  0
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E - S Vasquez. DP - Brescia 2. LOB - Brescia 8; Fisher 6.
3B - J Merrill. HR- T Englehardt. HBP - J Troutman;
M Oliveira 2. SH - M Oliveira. SF - E Pena.

Brescia Univ           IP  H  R ER BB SO AB BF
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Ronney Borjas.......  4.2  4  2  1  2  3 14 20
Wes Walden..........  3.1  3  1  1  1  3 12 13

Fisher College         IP  H  R ER BB SO AB BF
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Patrick Shanahan....  9.0  6  0  0  0  5 34 35

Win - P Shanahan.  Loss - R Borjas.  Save - None.
WP - R Borjas; P Shanahan. HBP - by R Borjas (M Oliveira);
by P Shanahan (J Troutman); by R Borjas (M Oliveira).
PB - J McCormick.
Umpires -
Start: 1 PM   Time: 1:54   Attendance: 25
Weather: mostly cloudy
Game: NAIA1