Johnson & Wales scored 26 times and belted 24 hits over 12 innings of play in defeating Anna Maria, 11-3 and 15-0, in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference doubleheader on Senior Day today at the Scotts Miracle-Gro Athletic Complex.

Starters Lane Compton (So., Freeland, Mich.) and Keith Grant (Fr., East Providence, R.I.) were the main beneficiaries of the Wildcat offensive barrage.  Compton cruised to his third win of the year with a five-hit, five strikeout performance in the opener.  Grant earned his first collegiate victory by allowing just four hits over his five innings of work in the second game.

The Wildcats spotted the Amcats (6-14, 1-7 GNAC) a two-run lead before scoring runs in each of the first four innings in game one.  Nate Frederick (Fr.,Worcester, Mass.) had an RBI triple and then scored on a single by first baseman Corey Andrade (Sr., Mashpee, Mass.) to give Anna Maria a short-lived 2-0 lead. 

JWU senior Rob Bocchetti (East Meadow, N.Y.) singled and scored on an error in the first inning, then tripled home a pair of runs to give the Wildcats a 4-2 lead in the second.  Jordan Pilarski's (Jr., Garnet Valley, Pa.) leadoff double in the second was followed by bloop singles to center by catcher Brandon Cesino (So., Scituate, R.I.) and shortstop Lou Umberto (So., Cranston, R.I.), who both scored on Bocchetti's triple.

The Wildcats tacked on four runs in the third when Ivan Reyes (Fr., Cranston, R.I.) followed a double by Carlos Sanabria (So., Pawtucket, R.I.) with a line single to right.  A pair of walks and a Cesino single for two more runs preceded a grounder by Bocchetti to make it 8-2.

A pair of fielder's choices, two walks, a hit baseman, a wild pitch, and consecutive singles by Andrew Hunton (Jr., Monroe, N.Y.) and Sanabria sent JWU to their final runs in a three-run fourth. The Wildcats finished both games with 12 hits. 

It proved to be more of the same in the nightcap, as JWU sent 12 men to the plate in a six-run first inning, highlighted by a two-run triple by catcher Chris Baldwin (So., Pawtucket, R.I.) and an RBI double by Tom Elkow (Morganville, N.J.), who also singled and tripled in a three-for-four afternoon. 

In the bottom of the third, the Wildcats sent 13 to the plate and scored eight more runs.  Three leadoff walks were followed by six run-scoring hits by Bocchetti, Kory Ferullo (Sr., Rochester, N.H.), Hunton (a double), Sanabria (a single), a Reyes double, and Elkow's two-run three-bagger to left-center field.  Elkow singled and scored on a fifth-inning single by Rob Ballinger (Fr., South Kingstown, R.I.), the last of the Wildcats' 15 runs.

Mike Davlos (New Milford, Conn.), a Wildcat first baseman by trade, came on in the seventh and recorded three strikeouts around a walk in his first collegiate pitching appearance.  Grant, Tyler Pacific (Fr., Cranston, R.I.), and Davlos struck out nine Amcats in the second-game victory. 

Bocchetti and Ferullo were two of the four senior honorees, along with pitchers Sean Haugh (Tampa, Fla.) and James Harlow (Bristol, Conn.), who threw a perfect seventh in the first game of the day.

The two wins put Johnson & Wales over the .500 mark for the first time this year at 11-10 and moved their GNAC record to 5-3.  The Wildcats host Brandeis in a non-conference game on Tuesday at 3:30pm.