Coast Guard Academy Sports Roundup

The Coast Guard Academy lost a baseball doubleheader to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Saturday. The Bears also defeated Springfield College in men's tennis and competed in track and field. The following information was provided by Jason Southard, sports information director at the Coast Guard Academy:

Baseball: WPI 5, Coast Guard 2; WPI 10, Coast Guard 7

Sophomore Matt Blakeman and senior Mitch McClune each drove in three runs in the second game of a doubleheader as WPI completed a sweep of Coast Guard with a 10-7 win after winning the opener of the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) twinbill 5-2.

The Engineers, who beat Coast Guard yesterday 2-0, swept the three-game set to improve to 19-8 overall and 8-3 in conference play while Coast Guard drops to 11-16 overall and 5-9 in the NEWMAC.

In the opener, WPI scored three unearned runs in the second inning as sophomore David Trujillo reached on an error, senior Nick Bean doubled and junior Brendan Walsh walked to load the bases. Senior Kyle Bartosik hit a sacrifice fly before two more runs scored on an error as WPI took a 3-1 lead.

The Bears had opened the scoring in the first when junior Joe Petry and classmate Nolan Gallagher singled before Petry scored on a wild pitch.

Coast Guard got an unearned run in the fourth on senior Mike Salerno’s RBI single before the Engineers scored twice in the fifth without the benefit of a base hit taking advantage of three walks and a hit batter while junior Brendan Walsh added a sacrifice fly to close the scoring.

Senior Sean Minor (6-1) won his career-high sixth game, his sixth straight win and the 19th of his career as he allowed seven hits and just one earned run while walking two and striking out five.

Coast Guard starter junior Curt Barrett (1-2) took the loss despite not allowing an earned run. Barrett went four innings and allowed just three hits and three runs, all unearned with two walks and four strikeouts.

Gallagher had two of the Bears seven hits in the opener while WPI had five hits in the win.

In game two, Coast guard got on the board first on a two-run homer by junior Tyler Babkiewich, his first of the season before the Engineers answered with two in the second, both unearned, as Blakeman had an RBI double and McClune followed with an RBI single to tie the game.

WPI took a 4-2 lead with two in the sixth on an RBI single by Blakeman before McClune drew a bases loaded walk. Coast Guard got one back in the home half of the sixth as senior Chris Izurieta was hit by a pitch and later scored on a wild pitch.

The Engineers scored four runs, three unearned, in the seventh on a sac fly by senior Kyle Bartosik, a safety squeeze by Steve Petry and an RBI single by Blakeman for an 8-3 lead.

Coast Guard took advantage of a pair of WPI errors in the eighth to score four unearned runs as Petry had an RBI single before Gallagher’s three-run double down the left field line pulled the Bears to within 8-7.

WPI added two insurance runs in the top of the ninth on an RBI single by McClune and an RBI double by senior John Flynn.

Freshman Andrew Portera (4-1) went 5 2/3 to get the win as he allowed five hits and three runs, two earned while walking four and striking out two. Freshman Taylor Landry went the final 3 1/3 innings allowing five hits and four unearned runs with one walk and two strikeouts to pickup his fifth save of the season.

Junior Nate Toll (1-4) was the starter and loser for the Bears as he went 5 1/3 innings allowing eight hits and four runs, two earned while walking three and striking out two.

Petry was 4 for 4 in the second game for Coast Guard as he finished the doubleheader 5-6 with three walks getting on base eight of nine times he came to the plate for the Bears.

Sophomore Dave Wolinski had three hits in game two for Coast Guard.

Blakeman was 4 for 5 while McClune, Bean, Petry and sophomore Tim Erlandson each had two hits in the game two win for WPI.

Men's Tennis

Senior Greg Mitchell, junior Blake Maurer and sophomore Josh Fischer each won singles and doubles matches leading Coast Guard to a 7-2 win over Springfield in a New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match.

With the win, Coast Guard is now 7-2 overall, 2-0 in NEWMAC play. Springfield is now 5-9 overall, 1-2 in the conference.
Mitchell won at #1 singles 7-5, 6-2, Fischer won at #2 singles 4-6, 7-6, 10-8 while Maurer won at #4 singles 6-2, 6-0.

Senior Nick Martin won at #3 singles 1-6, 6-1, 6-0 while freshman Jon Lightner won 6-4, 6-7, 10-4 at #6 singles as Coast Guard won five of the six singles matches.

Mitchell and Martin won 8-5 at #1 doubles while Maurer and Fischer won 8-6 at #2 doubles for Coast Guard.

Track and Field

Coast Guard won four events leading the Bears to a second place finish at the Corsair Classic at UMass Dartmouth.

The Bears were second with 116 points while host UMass Dartmouth won the 14 team meet with 141.5 points.

Sophomore Ben Wolhaupter won the pole vault (14-3.5) while freshman Christian Von Stralendorff was third (10-6).

Sophomore Adam Scalesse won the 400 hurdles with a time of 54.60, senior Joe Hill won the 5,000 meters with a time of 15:39.40 while sophomore Matt Monahan took third in the event with a time of 16:26.30.

Senior Kevin O’Brien won the 10,000 meters with a time of 32:50.74 while freshman Joey O’Connell was second in the 10,000 posting a time of 33:13.74.

Also for the Bears, junior Will Baker placed second in the discus (143-09) and third in the hammer (145-08).

In the women's competition, junior Gina Caylor won the pole vault (9-0), freshman Beth Gollin won the 3,000 meter steeplechase (11:31.74), freshman Kendall Auth won the 5,000 meters (20:00.25) and sophomore Moira McNeil won the 10,000 meters with a time of 41:48.44.

Senior Katie Schumacher was second in the 10,000 meters with a time of 41:57.74 while freshman Kyle Sutschek placed third in the discus with a throw of 121 feet, three inches.

The Bears finished with 107 points while Roger Williams won with 138.83 points and host UMass Dartmouth was second of the 11 teams with 138.33 points.