Coast Guard's Kaitlyn Mooney earns All-America honors in 3,000 at NCAA indoor meet

Birmingham, Ala. — Coast Guard Academy freshman Kaitlyn Mooney earned All-America honors for the second straight day when she placed fifth in the women's 3,000-meter race at Saturday's NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Mooney, who was part of the Bears' All-American distance medley relay team on Friday, finished the 3,000 in 9 minutes, 40.81 seconds. She was also an All-American in cross country last fall.

Brandeis University's Emily Bryson won the race in 9:33.09.

• Connecticut College junior Scott Mason also competed, placing 11th in the 3,000-meter race in 8:25.29. Haverford's Dylan Gearinger won the race in 8:16.77.

Wrestling

• Coast Guard junior Nick Remke won a pair of matches to place fifth while sophomore Owen McClave picked up a win in the seventh-place match as both earned All-America honors for the first time at the NCAA Division III Championships in Cleveland.

Remke beat Cornell College's Ben Hewson 7-6 in his first match Saturday before being pinned by No. 4 seed Frank Aiello of Wheaton (Ill.). He bounced back in the match for fifth place with a 4-3 win over Messiah's Jeff Hojnacki.

Top-seeded Troy Stanich of Stevens pinned McClave in his first match of the day before McClave defeated Delaware Valley's Brenden Velez 3-2 for seventh. McClave also beat Velez 5-3 in the opening round on Friday.

Baseball

• Former Wheeler standout Troy Stefanski homered and drove in four runs as UConn beat Citadel 17-3 behind a 19-hit attack. Stefanski was 2-for-5 and scored three runs. Isaac Feldstein also homered, Anthony Nucerino doubled and drove in three runs and John Toppa was 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored for UConn (6-5). Starter Mason Feole got the iwn, allowing one runs and four hits over 5.2 innings.

• Will Stephens had three hits and three RBI to backing Brett Sullivan on the mound as Coast Guard beat Merchant Marine 4-2 in the first game of a season-opener doubleheader in Fort Myers, Fla. The Bears fell in the nightcap 4-1.

Sullivan worked six solid innings, scattering six hits while walking only two. Down 2-1, a two-run single by Stephens gave Coast Guard the lead. Stevens broke a2-2 tie in the fifth with an RBI double and Jeremy Lhotka hit a solo home to left to add some insurance in the seventh. Freshman Lukas Caskey earned his first collegiate save by working out of a jam in the seventh while Lhotka, Alex Murdoch and Kyle Moore added two hits apiece.

Merchant Marine's Andrew Spinnenweber went the distance for the win in game two, retiring the first 17 batters before Lhotka doubled with two outs in the seventh and scored on a base hit by Jon Pressley. Lhotka had two more hits in the second game.

Men's lacrosse

• Unbeaten Coast Guard, off to its best start in program history, improved to 4-0 with an 11-4 win over Goucher in Towson, Md. Riley McNulty had three goals and one assist to lead the Bears while Logan Morin had his first career hat trick and Benner Geurtsen added two goals and two assists.

Goalie Trey Johnson made five saves for Coast Guard.

• Conn College remained unbeaten by rallying for an 8-6 win over Middlebury in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Jordan Foster had three goals for the Camels (3-0, 2-0) while goalie Jameson Hill made 14 saves.

Maxx Trotsky added a pair of goals for Conn, which erased a two-goal deficit in the final period.

Women's lacrosse

• Fourth-ranked Middlebury scored five quick goals and rolled to a 12-2 win over Conn College in the NESCAC. Clara Bisson and Jamie Navoni scored goals for the Camels (1-2, 0-2) while Julia Loesch added an assist and goalie Megan Mullin made 14 saves.

Men's tennis

• Connecticut College opened its season with a 5-4 loss to Babson. Henry DeCoster, SangJin Song and Patrick Farrell won their matches for Conn along with the No. 1 doubles team of Will Cannon and Ben Sachs.