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Nashua Silver Knights’ Good still getting opening nod

By Staff | Jun 8, 2013

NASHUA – The rain, though a pain, won’t change anything with the Nashua Silver Knights’ starting rotation.

It just means after the season opener was postponed Friday thanks to Tropical Storm Andrea, they have to open the season in someone else’s park: Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, Mass., at 7 p.m. Saturday.

It also means Chris Good will make his first start for 2013 in the same stadium in which he made his last Silver Knights start of 2012. Good started the team’s win in Game 1 of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League semifinals last year, and that was his final start of the summer.

Good transferred in the fall from the University of New Mexico to Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss, an NAIA school.

But it wasn’t something anyone expected.

“I got cut along with a couple of other guys,” Good said. “It was kind of a shock to me and a shock to a couple of the other guys. I took it with a grain of salt and went to my new school.”

Good was a walk-on at New Mexico, so no scholarship was taken away. He did get a scholarship to Belhaven, and went 14-3.

“I love it there,” he said. “It’s where I should be.”

Good hasn’t pitched in about a month, but he threw every day at home.

“I feel good about it,” he said.

The Silver Knights have Sunday off, and their game Monday at Pittsfield (Mass.) is at 10:30 a.m., with Nashua native Alek Morency taking the mound.

Righty Matt Tulley (Virginia Tech) will start Tuesday night at Old Orchard, and manager J.P. Pyne will give lefty Tom Hudon, of Merrimack and St. Anselm College, his first Silver Knights start in the new home opener, an 11 a.m. Education Day game Wednesday against the Wachusett Dirt Dawgs.

“He’s a local kid, so that will be good,” Pyne said.

Lineup decisions pending

How will the Silver Knights’ lineup look? Pyne has a lot of moving parts, and he didn’t want to reveal too much until his players find out.

Here are a few guesses: You’ll probably see an outfield of Sean Lyons in center and the University of Massachusetts Lowell duo of Jimmy Ricoy and Matt Sanchez in right and left respectively.

The Knights want Ricoy’s bat in the lineup – he hit .330 this spring – and he’ll likely hit cleanup, which he did at Lowell.

Lyons is in center because of his speed, but he’ll likely move out of there once his brother, Connor, returns from a broken collarbone in early July.

The infield will be brand new. Southern New Hampshire University’s Bryan Toland possibly will be at third and Texas Southern’s Manny Cabral at first. Pyne also has a few middle infielders who will rotate between short and second. One of those is soon-to-be high school graduate Johnny Adams, who’s Boston College-bound out of Walpole, Mass., and who reported for the first time Thursday.

“He looked really good,” Pyne said. “The ball jumps off his bat.”

Notes

While all of the opening night festivities and championship ring ceremony have been moved to 6:15 p.m. Saturday, June 15, there’s no word on when the game with Martha’s Vineyard will be made up. If it becomes part of a doubleheader, the Sharks are back at Holman only two more times, July 11 and Aug. 3.

Also, the Nashua Dodgers Night as part of the 75th anniversary of Holman Stadium celebration was moved from June 15 to 5 p.m. June 16; both are versus Brockton. The Knights will wear Dodgers uniforms Sunday, and team management wanted them to be able to wear their regular uniforms for the ring ceremony Saturday.

Tickets for the rained-out opener can be used for the June 15 game, the team said.

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