RINDGE, New Hampshire - The American International College baseball team split a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader at Franklin Pierce University, winning 12-8 and falling 5-2 on Sunday, April 27.

AIC is now 16-20 with a 10-9 NE10 mark.

Yeudy Ramirez started AIC off with a single and stole second and third, but the Yellow Jackets left him 90 feet from home in the first.

In the second, the Yellow Jackets did connect; Brendan Edvardsen was awarded first on a hit-by-pitch. He promptly stole second and scored on Aidan Streeter's double.

Both teams netted two with two-run home runs in the third; AIC's came as Josh Frometa led off with a double before Leandro Guevara launched a shot to right. Frometa also drove in two the next inning, smacking a single that scored Cole Patterson and Sam Tanous. The Ravens scored one each in the fourth and fifth, leaving AIC with a 5-4 edge.

In the seventh, AIC kicked the doors off. Frometa and Guevara worked back-to-back walks and Nick Serce hit a flare to right that loaded the bases. Kiernan Caffrey then scored the first two with a single. AIC reloaded the bases, and Caffrey ultimately scored on a wild pitch, while Streeter and Edvardsen came home on a two-run Tanous hit. Ramirez reached, and the duo pulled off a double-steal. Frometa wwalked to load the bases, and Guevara and Serce earned an RBI each without a hit, as the former walked and the latter was plunked to force Tanous and Ramirez home, respectively. The lead stood at 12-4.

The Ravens scored four in the ninth, three coming on Nolan DeAndrade's second longball of the game, but it was nowhere near enough as AIC took the win. Vaughn O'Leary was the winning pitcher, with five strikeouts and six hits plus four walks leading to four runs in 5.1 innings, while Charlie Calvanese earned an 11-out save, allowing four runs on five hits, nearly all in the ninth.

Ramirez's third steal of the day was his 28th of the season, setting a new program record; the previous mark was held by Chad Lavelle, who had 27 swipes in 2021.

Scoring was much more at a premium for most of game two; the Ravens took a 1-0 lead into the fourth before Serce tied the game with an RBI single, and he scored the go-ahead run later in the inning on a sacrifice fly. Unfortunately, AIC allowed four unearned in the home half of the inning for the 5-2 setback.

AIC returns to action on Monday, April 28 at noon to open a doubleheader at Saint Michael's College.