Luciano, Cianciolo NE-10 players of week

St. Michael’s College senior utility man Ulysses Luciano, a Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy alumnus, was named the Northeast-10 Conference Weekly Honor Roll for the week ending Sunday, April 9 along with teammate John Luke Cianciolo Guilford/New Haven, Connecticut.

While seeing time at second base and in left field, Luciano batted .571 (12-for-21) with six runs, three RBI, four doubles, a home run and three walks during a 2-4 week, slugging .905 with a .625 on-base percentage.

He was 1-for-3 with a run and a walk in both ends of a doubleheader at Assumption last Monday, adding a double in the nightcap. On Friday at Saint Anselm, Luciano went 2-for-3 with two runs, an RBI, a double and a walk in the opener before adding a 2-for-4 effort with an RBI and a double in game two. On Saturday at Saint Anselm, he finished 4-for-4 with two runs, an RBI, a double and a homer in game one and ended up 2-for-4 in the second contest.

Luciano is tied for 11th in program history with five career home runs. He is batting .309 with 10 runs and six doubles.

Cianciolo posted a 0.75 earned run average and a 1-1 record across two starts, including one complete game, last week. He yielded four runs — just one earned — on five hits in 12 innings with seven walks, 10 strikeouts and a .114 opposing batting average.

In a 7-4 loss at Assumption University last Monday, Cianciolo allowed three unearned runs on two hits in five frames with four strikeouts. During an 8-1 victory at Saint Anselm College on Saturday, he limited the Hawks to one run on three hits during a seven-inning complete game for his first college win, fanning six and walking three. As DH in the second game Saturday Cianciolo went 2-for-4 with an RBI.

In his first season as a starting pitcher, Cianciolo leads the NE10 in ERA (1.71). He has allowed six earned runs on 27 hits in 31.2 innings.

St. Michael’s 2-4 for the week

The Saint Michael’s College baseball team went 2-4 in Northeast-10 Conference road games last week, starting with a doubleheader split at Assumption University on Monday, with a 7-4 seven-inning loss in game one followed by a 6-2 victory after

The Purple Knights lost twice to Saint Anselm College, 16-5 and 4-2 in seven innings, on Friday before taking Saturday’s opener from Saint Anselm, 8-1 in seven innings, but losing a 10-3 decision in the second.

Sophomore Evan Balian (Lynnfield, Mass./Lynnfield) and first-year Sam Cavossa (East Falmouth, Mass./The Winchendon School) also homered during the week, when Balian batted .435 and slugged .652. First-year Ryan Canty (Shelburne, Vt./Champlain Valley Union) finished with a .333 average. First-year Keegan Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) struck out 12 batters to claim his initial college win, on Monday at Assumption, with the most strikeouts by a Purple Knight since Dylan Lavery’s  dozen against Saint Anselm in 2016.

Burke finished the week 1-1 with a 2.92 ERA, yielding four earned runs in 12.1 innings with 15 strikeouts and only one walk.