Week 3 Stats: 6 starts, .500 BA (11-for-22), 4 2B, HR, 5 RBI, 4 R
Severino extended his season-opening hitting streak to eight games last week. The first baseman batted .500 (11-for-22) with five extra-base hits, five RBI and four runs scored during the Blue Devils’ six-game schedule last week. The right-handed swinging slugger recorded multiple hits in five of his six outings and batted particularly well during CCSU’s three-game sweep of Virginia Military Institute. He produced at least two hits and one run in each of the three road victories, all of which were decided by two or fewer runs. Severino’s RBI double provided the Blue Devils with an insurance run in the top of the ninth inning of a 3-1 series-opening victory. In Game 2, a 6-5 triumph, he came around to score the team’s first run after leading off the second inning with a single. He later came scored the game-tying run on Corey Lerche’s go-ahead homer in the eighth inning. The veteran slugger drove in CCSU’s last two runs in the series finale, a 4-2 win. He connected on a run-scoring two-bagger in the third inning before launching a solo homer in the sixth.