RINDGE, N.H. – The Saint Anselm baseball team travelled to Rindge, N.H., this afternoon to take on the No. 16 Franklin Pierce Ravens for the second time in two days.  The Hawks' defense avoided any big innings, but Raven pitcher Mike Adams cruised to a two-hit shutout, leading the Ravens to a 6-0 victory over Saint Anselm.  The win lifts the Ravens to 12-6 (2-0 NE-10), while the Hawks drop to 3-13 (1-5 NE-10).

Derek Ingui started the game off right for the Ravens, laying down a perfectly placed bunt to get on base with an infield single.  Mike Dowd moved him to second with a sacrifice bunt, and Isaac Wenrich picked up the first RBI of the game with a double down the left-field line. 

Starting pitcher John Healy (Cranston, R.I.) kept the Ravens off the board through the next four innings, surrendering five singles but allowing just one batter past first base.  Catcher Matt Sucharewicz (Peabody, Mass.) helped Healy out, throwing out two runners on their way to second.  However, Mike Munoz led off the top of the sixth inning with a walk.  After once again getting the first two outs of the inning, Healy ceded an RBI triple to Nick LaCroix to give the Ravens a 2-0 lead.  Cody Kauffman started the seventh inning with a single to left field, and Derek Ingui drove him in with a double to right-center, scoring the Ravens' third and final run off Healy. 

Brandon Chase led off the eighth inning with a single down the left-field line off Hawk reliever Mike O'Rourke (Falmouth, Mass.).  Mike Augustine laid down the Ravens' fourth sacrifice bunt of the day, but LaCroix grounded into a fielder's choice to Eric Simm (Salem, N.H.), who threw out Chase at second base for the second out of the inning.  However, O'Rourke's good fortune did not last the entire inning, as he surrendered back-to-back singles to Phil Hendricks and Dan Kemp, who drove in LaCroix to make it 4-0, Ravens. 

Mike Fantini (Haverhill, Mass.) headed out to the mound in the top of the ninth to close out the game for the Hawks.  After getting the leadoff batter to fly out, he allowed a single up the middle to Mike Dowd.  Munoz got on base by a fielder's choice, as Dowd got forced out at second.  Tim Quinn then capped off the Raven's lead with a pinch-hit two-run homerun down the left field line, for a final score of 6-0.

Raven pitcher Mike Adams was perfect though five innings, retiring the first 16 batters in order, before Eric Simm broke up the no-no with a one-out single up the middle.  Matt Sucharewicz got the Hawks' only other hit in the seventh inning, with a two-out single to left field.  Joshua Lafond (Goffstown, N.H.) was the third and final Hawk to reach base, getting on by error in the eighth inning, but no Hawk made it past second base.  Adams improves to 4-0 on the season with today's gem.

The Hawks return to action tomorrow when they travel to Springfield, Mass., for another relocated home game, taking on the American International College Yellow Jackets in a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader beginning at noon.