Purple Knights Sweep Road Twinbill From C.W. Post

Brookville, N.Y.-The University of Bridgeport baseball team used outstanding pitching, allowing only one run in both ends of doubleheader, as the Purple Knights swept and East Coast Conference twinbill at C.W. Post, 2-1 and 2-0.  With the two wins, UB is now 9-5 overall and 4-3 in the ECC.  Bridgeport is also now on a four-game winning streak.  CWP falls to 3-21 overall and 2-5 in conference action.

In game one, with his team down to its last out in the top of the seventh inning, junior Matt Ranaudo (Milford, Conn.) sent a pinch hit double to right field off reliever Marshall Kapson to score the Purple Knights' only two runs of the contest, as UB nipped the Pioneers, 2-1.

Ranaudo's heroics at the plate made a winner of junior Nick Vautrin (S. Hadley, Mass.) who turned in another excellent start throwing six innings of four-hit ball in which he allowed only one run, Nick did not issue a walk and he fanned two batters, as he raises his season record to 2-0.  Junior Matt Bartolomei (Stratford, Conn.) worked a scoreless seventh inning to earn his third save of the season.

Starter Glen Hudson (0-5) was the tough-luck loser for C.W. Post in game one, as he allowed only two hits in 6.1innings of work.

In game two, junior right-hander Shaun Hancock (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) was masterful on the mound for Bridgeport throwing a four-hit complete game shutout in which he struck out four and walked only one batter in seven innings.  The win ups Hancock's season record to 3-1.  As a team, the Bridgeport pitching staff has now recorded three shut outs so far in 2011.

Senior Peter Barrows (Old Saybrook, Conn.) went 2-for-3 at the plate for the Purple Knights in the nightcap.  Barrows drove in the game's first run with a clutch, two-out RBI single in the top of the fifth inning, and he would later score his team's second run of the game later in that inning on a C.W. Post throwing error.

The Purple Knights and the Pioneers will wrap up their five-game East Coast Conference series with two games in Bridgeport tomorrow afternoon.  Game one, a nine-inning affair, will begin at 12 noon, and the two teams will close out play tomorrow with a seven-inning contest.