Box Score - Game 1, Box Score - Game 2, Senior Day Photos

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The American international College baseball team dropped a pair of Northeast-10 decision to UMass Lowell Saturday afternoon at AIC Park to close out the 2010 season. The Yellow Jackets finished the year with an overall record of 7-30, including a 4-22 mark in the NE-10.

Sophomore third baseman Cam Kneeland (Rowley, Mass.) gave UMass Lowell a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning in game-one with a two-run blast to left center and later hit another two-run bomb to left in the top of the top of the ninth to put the game out of reach. The River Hawks plated three that inning after scoring twice in the eighth.

AIC scored its only run in the bottom of the sixth as junior catcher Anthony Arrichiello (Yonkers, N.Y.) tripled to center field with one out and then scored on a double off the bat of senior left fielder Dan Bassani (Naples, Fla.).

Junior starter Dustin Ramsey (Kingston, N.H.) gave up one run on six hits with five strikeouts to improve to 7-4 this season, while senior reliever Matt Monico (Tewksbury, Mass.) earned the save after getting the final six outs after entering the game with two on base and no outs in the bottom of the eighth.

Sophomore John Hanna (Dudley, Mass.) fell to 2-5 with the loss after giving up three runs, two earned, with four strikeouts in six innings.

Kneeland went deep for the third time in the top of the first in game-two with a solo shot to left and UMass Lowell made it 2-0 in the third when senior designated hitter Peter Onorato (Clarence Center, N.Y.) scored on a wild pitch. The River Hawks then scored three times in the fourth to break the game open and tacked on one run in the sixth and ninth innings for the 7-0 final.

Junior starter Ted Haley (Cranston, R.I.) improved to 2-3 after tossing seven scoreless innings, scattering four hits and two walks with nine strikeouts. Sophomore reliever Dallas Nunes (Easton, Mass.) gave up just two hits in the final two innings to preserve the shutout.

Sophomore pitcher Geoff McCowat (Sterling, Va.) fell to 1-2 after allowing five runs, three earned, in four innings for the Yellow Jackets.

Bassani and senior catcher Brenden Blaschke (Southington, Conn.) were honored in a Senior Day ceremony between games. Blaschke then went 2-for-4 in game two and ended his career with a ground-rule double that nearly cleared the fence in left center in the bottom of the ninth.