Nashua, N.H. – Clark University closed out the 2016 season with a convincing 9-0 win over Rivier University in non-league baseball action on Thursday evening at Holman Stadium.

The win for the Cougars is their school-record 18th of the year and second shutout of the initial campaign of head coach J.P. Pyne.

Freshman pitching duo of Mike Tice (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Cal Slepkow (Rehoboth, Mass.) combined for the blanking, with Tice tying the school-record for wins in a season, ending his inaugural year with a perfect 7-0 ledger after going six innings and allowing just four hits. Slepkow, meanwhile, fanned a career-high eight in three innings of one-hit relief to register his first career save.

Offensively for the Cougars, Kyle Bonicki (Waterbury, Conn.) registered his second career four-hit game, to go along with an RBI and three stolen bases.

The game was scoreless for the first three innings until the Scarlet and White pushed an unearned run across and then Tyler Hutchinson (Greene, Maine) drove in two with his fifth triple of the season and Bonicki brought home another with a single to center.

Clark scored two more in the fifth on a Mikey Thomson (Northampton, Mass.) single through the right side and then worked his way around the bases and stole home to give the Cougars a 6-0 lead.

That advantage grew in the sixth on a Teddy Downing (Cambridge, Mass.) single, a Thomson sacrifice fly and a Zach Kelley (Hadley, Mass.) base hit.

Slepkow then came in and kept the pitching dominance going for the Cougars, tossing his three stellar innings of relief to seal the win for the Scarlet and White.

In addition to Bonicki's four hits both Thomson and Kelley had two hits each while Adam Chochrek (Foxboro, Mass.) and Zach Richall (Tyngsboro, Mass.) scored a pair of runs.

Bonicki, who ends the season riding a nine-game hit streak, sets new school single season records in batting average (.466), on-base percentage (.549), hits (68), runs scored (46), total bases (87) and stolen bases (21).