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The Coast Guard Academy softball team is starting on a hot streak, improving its record to 6-0 after two more shutouts at the Rebel Games in Kissimmee, Fla. The school's baseball team also posted a win on Wednesday. The following information was provided by the Coast Guard Academy Athletic Department.

Softball: Coast Guard 2, Albion 0; Coast Guard 1, Lake Forest 0

Junior All-American Hayley Feindel threw her seventh career no-hitter and also fired a one-hitter to stretch her scoreless innings streak to 39 to start the season as Coast Guard, ranked 16th nationally, improved to 6-0, the best start in school history with a pair of wins at the Rebel Games.

Feindel now has five shutouts in the first six games of the season. Coast Guard beat Albion College 2-0 and Lake Forest College 1-0.

In the first game of the day against Albion, Coast Guard scored both runs in the top of the first inning as freshman Devin Fellman drew a leadoff walk, advanced to third on junior Maddie Buchert's sacrifice bunt and later scored on senior Amanda Frederick's triple. Frederick scored on sophomore Holli Bastinck's RBI single.

Feindel was dominate, as she always is, striking out a season-high 15 while walking just two and firing a one-hitter.

In game two, Coast Guard was held hitless until the bottom of the sixth when sophomore Megan Cook led off with a double. Pinch runner freshman Leslie Majcher stole third and Buchert’s two-out RBI single accounted for the only run of the game.

Feindel (6-0) fanned ten to record her first no-hitter of the season.

Baseball: Coast Guard 9, Illinois College 7

Junior Eddie Kalankiewicz’s three-run double highlighted a four-run eighth inning leading Coast Guard to a 9-7 win over Illinois College at the Gene Cusic Classic.

Kalankiewicz, who entered the game in the bottom of the seventh, lined a shot over the right fielders head that cleared the bases giving the Bears a 7-3 lead. He later scored a sacrifice fly by sophomore Riley Beecher for an 8-3 lead.

Illinois College scored four runs in the home half of the seventh to make the score 8-7 and the Bears added an insurance run in the ninth when sophomore pitcher Tyler Vieira, who got the final out of the eighth with a strikeout, led off with a walk and eventually scored a wild pitch.

Vieira fanned two more in the ninth to pickup his second save of the season. Sophomore Curt Barrett picked up his first collegiate win as he worked 3 1/3 innings out of the bullpen allowing just three hits and a run while striking out four and not walking a batter.

Sophomore James Diddell started for Coast Guard and went 3 2/3 innings allowing four hits and two runs while walking five and striking out two.

Coast Guard did not get its first hit of the game until a two-out single by sophomore Ed Sella in the sixth. Sella had two of the Bears six hits in the game. Freshman Lukas Laplante had a sacrifice fly in the third which gave the Bears a 3-0 lead.

Beecher had a key RBI single in the seventh for the Bears which broke a 3-3 tie.

Sophomores Tyler Babkiewich, Jake Boross and Cameron Carroll also had a hit in the win.