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Reading, Pa. (May 12, 2011) - Fresh off setting the team's single game strikeout record with 16 last Friday, junior
Andrew Kirk (Media, Pa./Penncrest) fanned 14 batters over eight innings to establish a new season record for strikeouts in #15/18 Alvernia University's 11-0 win over #23 St. John Fisher Thursday afternoon at Angelica Park.
Kirk reached triple digits on the season with 101 strikeouts and passed Todd Meyer who fanned 96 batters in 2002. His 14 strikeouts Thursday included the rare four-strikeout inning.
Kirk struck out the leadoff batter then two more in the second and another in the third while the Crusaders' offense scored once in the first and again in the second.
Travis Wrambel (Newtown Square, Pa./Marple Newtown) drove in the first run with a two-out single in the first, and
Chris Ray (Exton, Pa./Henderson) drove in the second with a sacrifice fly.
Kirk then doubled his strikeout total with a four-K fourth. After a leadoff single he struck out back-to-back batters swinging with the second reaching first on a wild pitch. A walk ensued to load the bases, but Kirk escaped the jam with another back-to-back effort.
Alvernia scored two in the bottom of the fourth, the second on another Ray sac fly, and blew the game open with five runs in the seventh. Both Ray and
Julian Faria (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) delivered with two-run singles.
Kirk threw two-strikeouts frames in the sixth, seventh, and eighth and ended his afternoon after eight innings with 14 Ks, one walk, and five hits.
Rich Collins (Lebanon, Pa./Cedar Crest) threw a scoreless ninth--with two strikeouts--to close out the game.
Ray finished 2-for-2 at the plate with four RBIs. Faria and
Brian Witkowski (Ewing, N.J./Notre Dame) both had two-hit games and
Eric Domitrovits (Northampton, Pa./Northampton) went 3-for-5.
Alvernia and St. John Fisher will play another nine inning game Friday afternoon as both teams try to stay loose for NCAA Regional bids which are announced Monday morning.
#15/18 Alvernia 11, #23 St. John Fisher 0
