Lyons Record Seven Multi-Hit Performances During 10-4 Win at Curry

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MILTON, MA- The Wheaton College baseball team had seven of its players record at least two hits during Friday afternoon's 10-4 victory over non-conference foe Curry College at Will Field.

The Lyons, who are receiving national votes in the latest D3baseball.com poll, won for the 11th time in 13 games to improve to 15-6.  The Colonels, who handed three of Wheaton's 10 losses in 2010, dropped their third straight to fall to 9-13.

Senior Eric Laliberte (Nashua, NH/Bishop Guertin) upped his batting average to .405 after going 4-for-4 with two runs, a double and an RBI.  Classmate Hadi Raad (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY/Hastings) was 2-for-4 with four RBI, two runs, a homer and a double, while junior Dan Haugh (Andover, MA/Saint John's Prep) finished with two hits and a trio of runs driven in.

Senior Tad Skelley (Wolfeboro, NH/Holderness School) batted 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI, classmate Sean Munley (Ewing, NJ/The Hun School of Princeton) had two hits while plating one, freshman Mike Bisceglia (New Boston, NH/Goffstown) recorded two hits with a pair of runs while doubling, and junior Hal Landers (Salem, NH/Salem) accounted for a pair of knocks and one run.  The Lyons finished with 16 hits, one shy of their season high.

Sophomore Justin Dickinson (Stratford, CT/Bunnell) earned his first win of the season, coming on in relief to toss 4.1 innings.  He allowed just one earned run on five hits with four strikeouts and two walks.  Seniors Kevin Calabro (Andover, MA/Andover) and D.J. McGee (Worcester, MA/Saint Peter-Marian) and junior David Longley (Brunswick, ME/Brunswick) combined to throw 3.2 frames of shutout ball, fanning four while yielding just one hit.

The hosts had three players register two hits apiece, while junior Kyle Moore (Lynn, MA/Lynn English) suffered the loss on the hill, surrendering five earned runs and eight hits with one strikeout and a walk in five innings.

Curry put an early run on the board in the opening frame before the visitors tied the game on a Haugh sacrifice fly in the fourth.  The Lyons pulled away with a combined seven runs and 11 hits over the next two innings for an 8-1 advantage.  Haugh, Laliberte, Raad and Skelley each drove in a run in the fifth, while Raad's three-run blast in the sixth provided the seven-run differential.

The Colonels responded with three runs in the home half of the sixth to make the score 8-4 before McGee closed the door by setting down his only two batters of the frame after entering the game with two runners on.  Wheaton tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the ninth, as Haugh and Munley each singled home a run.

The Lyons are back in action tomorrow when they host non-conference foe Brandeis University at 1:00 p.m.