Coast Guard Academy Sports Roundup

The Coast Guard Academy continued a successful softball stream yesterday, twice shutting out Wellesley College 3-0. The baseball team fought into extra innings but fell to Springfield College. The following information was provided by the Coast Guard Academy Athletic Department:

Softball: Coast Guard 3, Wellesley 0; Coast Guard 3, Wellesley 0

Junior All-American Hayley Feindel ran her scoreless innings streak to a career-best 57 straight as she fired a pair of shutouts and struck out 25 as Coast Guard, ranked fourth nationally, swept Wellesley 3-0 and 3-0 and clinched at least a share of its third consecutive New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season championship and secured the top-seed and will host next week’s NEWMAC tournament for the third straight season.

The Bears, who have achieved their highest national ranking in school history, improve to 29-1 overall and 13-1 in conference play and extend their winning streak to 12 straight. Coast Guard can win the NEWMAC regular season championship outright with one win tomorrow in a doubleheader at MIT.

Feindel leads the nation in wins (28), shutouts (20) and 327 strikeouts. She is sixth all-time in Division III with 1,076 career strikeouts.

In the opener, Feindel allowed three singles and struck out 13 and did not walk a batter to register her 19th shutout of the season.

Sophomore Lauren Goldfarb (8-6) went the distance for Wellesley. She only allowed three singles as well, but allowed a pair of earned runs while walking four and striking out five.

Coast Guard took a 1-0 lead in the second without a hit as sophomores Holli Bastinck and Catherine Walker were both hit by a pitch to open the inning and following a sac bunt by classmate Megan Cook, Bastinck scored on a passed ball.

The Bears got their first hit of the game in the fourth, an RBI single by freshman Kaitlin Ward and Ward struck again in the sixth, another RBI single scoring Walker who led off the frame with an infield single.

In the night cap, Feindel fired a one-hitter, allowing just a single to senior Megan Townsend in the third inning. She walked one and fanned 12 to pickup the win.

Coast Guard got the only run it would need in the first as Bastinck’s RBI single scored freshman Devin Fellman, who led off with walk.

The Bears added two in the second on a two-run double by Fellman.

Senior Amanda Frederick had two hits including a double for the Bears in the game two win.

Wellesley drops to 20-11 overall and 8-5 in conference play.

Baseball: Springfield 9, Coast Guard 8

Karl Quist singled to drive in the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to lead Springfield College to a 9-8 victory over Coast Guard Academy in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference game at SC's Berry-Allen Field.

With the win, Springfield halted a five-game losing streak to up its record to 10-17 overall, 4-12 in the NEWMAC. Coast Guard is now 17-13 overall, and 7-9 in the league. The Bears are tied with WPI for the fourth and final NEWMAC tournament playoff spot with two games left in the conference portion of the schedule.

Mike McGowan, who went 4-for-6 and scored four runs on the day, led off the 10th with a double to right-center field. He was sacrificed to third. After John Schmaltz was intentionally walked, the next batter grounded out to the pitcher, with Schmaltz advancing to second.

Quist then singled, scoring McGowan, to win it for the Pride.

Coast Guard, which rallied from a 6-2 deficit, tied the game 8-8 with two runs in the top of the ninth as with one out junior Eddie Kalankiewicz singled, sophomore Tyler Babkiewich reached on an error and on a double steal, Kalankiewicz scored a throwing error to make the score 8-7. Sophomore Nolan Gallagher's two-out RBI single tied the game.

Gallagher had two hits and two RBI's in the game while sophomore Joe Petry, freshman Dave Wolinski, Kalankiewicz and Babkiewich each had two hits for the Bears.

Sophomore Nate Toll started for the Bears and allowed nine hits and eight runs, four earned, while walking four and fanning three in six innings work. Sophomore Riley Beecher (2-3) was the tough luck loser as he allowed five hits and just the one run in the tenth. Beecher worked 3 2/3 innings and walked and struck out one.

The Bears and the Pride close out the three-game series with a doubleheader at Coast Guard on Saturday at noon.