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NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ATHLETICS

Knights win 11th straight in blowout fashion

Portland, ME (April 5, 2022) – The #4 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College baseball team won their 11th straight game on Tuesday afternoon in blowout fashion as they took down Southern Maine Community College 19-0 and improved to 19-2 on the season.

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April 5, 2022

Portland, ME (April 5, 2022) – The #4 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College baseball team won their 11th straight game on Tuesday afternoon in blowout fashion as they took down Southern Maine Community College 19-0 and improved to 19-2 on the season.

#4 NECC 19 SMCC 0

  • After a scoreless first inning the Knights blew out the floodgates as they plated eight runs in the top of the second inning.
  • The first six batters of the inning all reached base in the second before SMCC recorded an out. After Clay Campbell (Goffstown, NH) reached with a single to center, Lucas Berube (Dighton) and Joey Settle (Melbourne, FL). Kyle Hsu (Brookline, NH) was hit by a pitch to plate the first run. Nick Panzini (Methuen) followed with a two RBI single to center. Chris Bear (Boston) drove in the fourth run of the inning with a base hit through the right side.
  • A sacrifice bunt from Nick White (Townsend) scored the fifth run of the inning. Richard Matos (Boston) followed with an RBI double. The seventh run scored on a sacrifice fly to center field by Campbell before Berube drove in the final run of the inning on a live drive to left.
  • Five more runs would come across in the third. Panzini recorded an RBI double after Hsu was hit by the pitch for the second time in as many at bats. Bear followed with an RBI single. Campbell ripped a two out, two RBI double to center before coming around to score on a single by Berube to make the score 13-0 in the third.
  • The Knights would add six more runs in the fourth inning before the game was called by the run rule after five innings.
  • For the game, Campbell was a perfect 4 for 4 with two doubles, three RBI and three runs scored. Jared Coppola (Lynn) also recorded four hits in the game as part of the Knights 19 hit onslaught.
  • Dallas Vaughan (Haverhill) went the distance in the shortened game as he three five innings of two hit baseball, walking one and striking out four

NECC has adjusted their schedule for the remainder of the week based on the predicted forecast of wet weather into the weekend and will return to the field on Sunday when they will host Massasoit Community College in a Region 21 double header with first pitch scheduled for 12:00pm at Trinity Stadium.