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Senior designated hitter Nick Venier went 3-for-5 with a two-run home run and two doubles on Friday.
7
Winner Saint Rose STR 21-19
3
Pace PAC 30-22
Winner
Saint Rose STR
21-19
7
Final
3
Pace PAC
30-22
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Saint Rose STR 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 7 12 1
Pace PAC 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 7 1

W: McGRATH, Ryan (3-5) L: Ryan Aquino (3-2) S: VRICCIARIELLO, Carmine (3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Jon Turner

SAINT ROSE ADVANCES TO NE-10 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS WITH 7-3 TRIUMPH OVER PACE

RINDGE, N.H.-The College of Saint Rose advanced to its first-ever Northeast-10 Conference Championship finals after defeating Pace, 7-3, on Friday afternoon on the campus of tournament host Franklin Pierce.
 
The Golden Knights (21-19) will now face Southern New Hampshire (44-5), ranked fourth nationally, on Saturday at 4 p.m. in Rindge. Saint Rose will need to defeat the Penmen twice in order to capture the league title. If necessary, a second game would be played following the first on Saturday evening.
 
In Friday's victory over Pace, senior designated hitter Nick Venier and senior center fielder Derek Reed each hit two-run home runs, while Venier finished 3-for-5 with two doubles and two runs scored and Reed went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored.
 
Junior shortstop Tyler Ungerland batted 3-for-4 with an RBI and a walk.
 
The top three hitters in the Golden Knight lineup (Reed, Venier, Ungerland) went a combined 8-for-13 (.615) with six RBIs and three runs scored.
 
Saint Rose led 1-0 after the top of the first inning and held the lead until the Setters tied the game on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth. The Golden Knights then regained the lead in the following frame at 2-1 when Reed hustled-out an infield single to score freshman left fielder Dakota DeJordy.
 
Venier's two-run blast put the Golden Knights up 4-1 in the top of the eighth, but the Pace bats came alive in the home half of the inning. The Setters scored two runs to make it 4-3 after consecutive doubles and a single, and had the tying run on base with one out.
 
Next, junior right-hander Carmine Vricciariello came out of the bullpen throwing strikes. He got ahead 0-2 on the following two batters and forced two groundouts to preserve a 4-3 lead heading to the ninth inning.
 
DeJordy smacked an RBI double in the top of the ninth and Reed belted his two-run homer to put the Golden Knights up 7-3. Vriccariello then struck out the side in order in the home half of the ninth to secure the victory and his third save of the season.
 
"Vriccariello has been a reliable force out of the pen all season," head coach Kyle Wilkins said. "He did a great job shutting Pace down today and putting us in a position to advance."
 
Senior right hander Ryan McGrath picked up his third win of the year after allowing just one run on three hits over five innings of work.
 
"I'm very pleased with the way we have competed over the last few games against some of the top teams in the country," Wilkins said. "We didn't let adversity throw off our focus and we played extremely well late in these games. Our ability to answer the bell so consistently down the stretch has been the key to making this run. My biggest takeaway from this season has been the resiliency and toughness our guys have shown all year."
Notes: Ungerland continues to lead the NE-10 in batting with a .410 average (59-for-144)…He is furthermore second with a .497 on-base percentage and stands fourth behind a .590 slugging percentage…Ungerland is batting .444 with runners in scoring position and 17 of his 32 RBI have come with two outs…Venier is sixth among the NE-10 top hitters with a .356 batting average (47-for-132) and is fifth in slugging at .576…Reed is hitting at a .321 clip (54-for-168) …Also, Vricciariello has allowed only three runs and has fanned 28 throughout his last 14 appearances that cover 20.1 innings on the bump…Ungerland was named a first-team All-Conference pick while Venier and senior southpaw Joe Pokrentowski were selected third-team honorees earlier this week…The Golden Knights have gone 21-11 since opening the year 0-8 and are 13-1 when leading after seven innings…Saint Rose is making its third NE-10 Championship appearance and first since 2003 when the Golden Knights advanced to the weekend with a 2-1, 12 inning victory versus Saint Anselm at Heritage Park in Colonie, NY…They then fell 1-0 to host UMass Lowell and were defeated 15-10 by Stonehill in the elimination bracket and thus 2016 markes their deepest run ever…Saint Rose also earned a berth in 2002, its second year of league membership, but was upended 4-3 by host Stonehill in a first round encounter.
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