Baseball splits with Houston-Victoria

Game One: Fisher 12, Houston-Victoria 2

The natives of Saugus, MA combined for 8 RBI's in game one

Victoria, TX - The Fisher College Baseball team continues to win as they beat the University of Houston at Victoria by a score of 12-2.

Fisher would get most of its offense from a pair of freshman from Saugus, Massachusetts. Fisher scored five times in the third inning, highlighted by a grand slam home run by Dave Ferreira (Saugus, MA). In the game, Ferreira went 2-for-3 with 5 RBI's.

Fisher add a run in the fourth before they exploded for six runs in the top half of the seventh. With the bas.es loaded, Ferreira lifted a sacrifice fly to left that scored sophomore Richie Welch (Everett, MA). After freshman Jose Paulino (Lawrence, MA) walked to reload the bases, Fisher College Head Coach Scott Dulin called upon freshman Sebastiano Petruzzelli (Saugus, MA) to pinch hit. Petruzzelli delivered as he laced a bases clearing double down the left field line.

The 2003 Little League World Series participants (Ferreira and Petruzzelli) combined to go 3-for-4 with 8 RBI's. Also senior Edwin Pena (Union City, NJ) extended his hitting streak to eight games with a single in the third.

Senior right-hander Sammy Luciano (Union City, NJ) was the starting pitcher and received the win after throwing a complete game, 7.0 innings. He gave up 2 runs and scattered four hits while striking out six and walking five. With the win, Fisher College improves to 6-8 on the season and 6-4 on this spring break trip.

Game Two: Houston-Victoria 12, Fisher College 1

Gary Lunetta was solid at the plate for the Falcons in game two

Victoria, TX - After scoring 12 runs in game one, the explosive Fisher offense was held to just one run as Houston-Victoria went on win 12-1 in a mercy rule shortened five inning game.

For the Falcons, sophomore Gary Lunetta (North Andover, MA) led the offense as he went 2-for-3 with a runs scored and two stolen bases. Also collecting hits for Fisher were junior Reynaldo Nunez (Santiago, Dominican Republic), freshman Sammy Alejandro (East Hartford, CT) and freshman Steven Clark (Haverhill, MA).

On the mound, freshman Mike Callahan (Chepachet, RI) took the loss as he allowed three runs (two earned) in 2.2 innings of work.

The four game series will resume tomorrow night at 6 pm (cst). Fisher now falls to 6-9 on the season and 6-5 on the spring break trip.