Coast Guard Sluggers Keep Up Win Tally

The Coast Guard Academy kept up the wins on Friday, winning two softball games against Clark College and one baseball game against Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The following information was provided by the Coast Guard Academy Athletic Department:

Baseball: Coast Guard 3, WPI 0

Sophomore Nate Toll scattered seven hits over eight scoreless innings and classmate Tyler Vieira registered his school-record fifth save of the season leading Coast Guard to a 3-0 win over WPI in a New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) game.

Toll allowed just seven singles while walking two and striking out five to run his scoreless innings streak to 17 and improve to 5-1 on the season. Toll, the reigning NEWMAC Co-Pitcher of the Week, fired a two-hit shutout vs. MIT in his last outing.

Coast Guard scored the only run it would need in the first on an RBI single by sophomore Tyler Babkiewich scoring junior Eddie Kalankiewicz, who singled and stole second.

The Bears added a run in the third on and RBI single by senior Graham Sherman before closing the scoring with a single run in the seventh as sophomore Joe Petry led off with a single, advanced two bases on an errant throw on a pickoff and scored on a wild pitch.

Vieira worked a 1-2-3 ninth inning to pickup his single-season school-record fifth save as the Bears improved to 16-10 overall and tied WPI with a 6-6 NEWMAC record. WPI is now 10-15 overall. Matt Smith held the single-season school record with four saves set in 2003. Vieira is now tied with Smith for the career mark of seven saves.

Sherman, Kalankiewicz and sophomore Ed Sella each had two hits to lead Coast Guard while sophomore Shane Sampson had a pair of hits for WPI.

Junior Eric Johnson (0-4) took the loss as worked 6 2/3 innings allowing eight hits, three runs -- two earned, while walking two and striking out two.

The teams will play a doubleheader tomorrow at Wachusett High School in Massachusetts at noon to wrapup the three game series.

Softball: Coast Guard 2, Clark 0; Coast Guard 8, Clark 0

Junior All-American Hayley Feindel had quite an afternoon as she threw her second career perfect game, recorded a pair of shutouts, struck out 25 batters and moved into sixth place on all-time Division III strikeouts list as Coast Guard, ranked 7th nationally, swept Clark 2-0 and 8-0 in five innings in a New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) doubleheader.

Feindel fired a two-hit shutout with one walk and 14 strikeouts in the opener before the five inning perfect game with 11 strikeouts in the nightcap for the 45th shutout and the eighth no-hitter of her career.

The junior right-hander entered the day 12th on the Division III all-time strikeouts list with 1,018 and moved up six spots to sixth all-time by the end of the day with 1,043 strikeouts.

Feindel is now 25-1 on the season, leading the nation with 25 wins and 294 strikeouts.

Junior Maddie Buchert’s two-run double in the bottom of the sixth accounted for the only runs in the opener.

Senior Sarah Carter (7-6) was the tough luck loser allowing just three hits and one earned run while walking one and fanning two in going the distance in game one.

In game two, freshman Kaitlin Ward hit the first two homers of her career as the Bears went deep four times in the 8-0 win.

Freshman Devin Fellman led off the bottom of the first with a homer before sophomore Catherine Walker added a three-run shot in the four-run first inning.

Ward homered to lead off the fourth before ending the game with a three-run blast in the fifth inning to enforce the eight-run rule ending the game.

Sophomore Nicole Meuse (7-4) took the loss for Clark allowing eight earned runs in 4 2/3 innings.

Sophomore Holli Bastinck also had a pair of hits for the Bears in game two.

Coast Guard improves to 25-1 overall and 11-1 in conference play while Clark drops to 14-10 overall and 6-4 in the NEWMAC.