Coast Guard Academy Sports Roundup

The Coast Guard Academy may be heading to a post-season tournament after an impressive season, and Hayley Feindel established a new division record on the softball field. The men's tennis team fell to Wesleyan. The following information was provided by the Coast Guard Academy Athletic Department:

Baseball: Coast Guard 16, Mitchell 5

Sophomore Cameron Carroll was 3 for 3 including his first career home run, he also drove in three runs and stole home while classmate Joe Petry’s two-run single highlighted a seven-run eighth inning as Coast Guard picked up its 20th win of the season with a 16-5 win over host Mitchell in the final regular season game of the season for the Bears.

Coast Guard improves to 20-15 and must now await word on a possible berth to the ECAC Division III New England tournament. The Bears won 20 games for just the third time in school history and first since 2003 when the team last earned a berth in the ECAC tournament and finished 20-18. The ECAC bids will be announced on May 9th. Coast Guard has only been to postseason play twice in school history with ECAC bids in 1994 and 2003.

Carroll got the Bears on the board with a deep two-run homer to left in the second for a 2-0 lead. The Mariners tied the game 2-2 in the third.

Coast Guard took the lead for good with three runs in the fourth. Sophomore Tyler Babkiewich blasted his first homer of the season to lead off the inning before Carroll and Petry added RBI singles for a 5-2 lead.

Carroll stole home as part of double steal with classmate Eric Gerken as the Bears took a 6-2 lead in the sixth.

The Bears batted around scoring seven runs on just four hits in the seventh. Four of the runs were unearned following a dropped fly ball.

Petry had the two-run single to make the score 8-2. Junior Eddie Kalankiewicz had an RBI double, sophomore Nolan Gallagher and junior Mike Salerno added RBI singles as the Bears pushed the lead to 13-2.

Coast Guard got three more in the ninth on an RBI double by sophomore Ed Sella and an RBI single by junior Nick Peters and another run scoring on a wild pitch to take a 16-2 lead.

Petry had two hits and three RBI's while Babkiewich and Gallagher each added two hits in the win for Coast Guard.

Sophomore Riley Beecher pitched two hitless innings, the fifth and sixth innings to pickup the win and even his record at 3-3 on the season. Sophomore Nate Toll went the first four innings and allowed five hits and two runs. Coast Guard used five pitchers in the game while Mitchell send nine different pitchers to the mound. Travis Gembecki took the loss and is 1-1 on the year.

Mitchell drops to 17-6-1 on the season.

The Bears completed the season sweep of Mitchell, the first place team in the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC), which should boost their ECAC tournament resume.

If the Bears earn that ECAC tournament bid, they will have a chance to tie or break the school record of 21 wins set in 1994.

Softball: Coast Guard 3, Wesleyan 0

Junior All-American Hayley Feindel broke the NCAA Division III single-season record by throwing her 26th shutout of the season, a four-hitter, leading Coast Guard, ranked fourth nationally, to a 3-0 win over Wesleyan in a non-conference game, the regular season finale for the Bears.

Feindel, who was named the NEWMAC Pitcher of the Year for the third straight season earlier on Wednesday, has not allowed an earned run in 105 innings. She also broke her own single-season school record as she registered her 35th win of the season to improve to 35-2 on the year. She allowed just four singles, walked a batter and struck out nine. She leads the nation with wins (35), shutouts (26) and strikeouts (411). Feindel is closing in on the all-time Division III strikeout record of 1,165 held by Jennifer Martinez of St. Joseph (L.I.) which she did from 2006-2008. Feindel is just five shy of the record with 1,160 career strikeouts.

Senior All-American Amanda Frederick, who earlier in the day was named the NEWMAC Player of the Year for the second straight season, had a two-run triple in the third and later scored on an RBI single by sophomore Holli Bastinck for the only runs of the game. Frederick had two of the Bears six hits in the game.

Coast Guard, the two-time defending NEWMAC tournament champions, improve to 36-2 and will find out its first round NCAA tournament opponent when the pairings are announced on May 9th.

Men's Tennis: Wesleyan 8, Coast Guard 1

Wesleyan won all six singles matches enroute to an 8-1 win over Coast Guard in a non-conference match.

Chris Hoffman and Blake Maurer got the only point of the match with a 9-8 win at #1 doubles.

The Bears are now 9-9 on the season.