CGA baseball team scores six runs in bottom of ninth to beat Wilmington 15-14

Falcons’ Marcolina finishes second in 50 freestyle during Class L swim meet

Fort Myers, Fla. — The Coast Guard Academy baseball team scored six runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to earn a 15-14 win over Wilmington College on Wednesday in the Gene Cusic Classic.

Wilmington led 10-3 in the second inning and 14-9 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Jon Pressley's threerun triple tied the game at 14-14 and Alex Murdoch singled home Pressley with the game-winning run.

Luke Thompson's two-out RBI single kept the Bears alive in the ninth. After Alex Cordes walked, Will Stephens' ground ball to second appeared to end the game. But a throwing error allowed Thompson to score and was followed by a walk to Jeremy Lhotka to load the bases. Pressley followed with his triple off the right field fence and Murdoch capped off the rally.

Pressley, who was 4-for-4 in Tuesday's win over Gallaudet, was 5-for-6 with five RBI and three runs scored. Thompson had four hits, Mudroch had three hits and three RBI and Lhotka had three hits for the Bears (4-1).

H.S. swimming

• John Marcolina earned medals in three events as the Fitch/Stonington/Ledyard/ Norwich Tech cooperative team finished 11th in the Class L meet at Wesleyan University in Middletown.

Marcolina, a junior, was second in the 50-yard freestyle in 21.53 seconds, fourth in the 100 free in 47.93 and joined Patrick Nowak, Joe Vignato and Keegan Reck to place fourth in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:31.07.

Nowak, a senior, added a fifth in the 100 breastrokes (1:00.60) for the Falcons who finished with 187 points (Darien won with 711).

• Eastern Connecticut Conference champion East Lyme finished sixth in the Class M championship meet at the Cornerstone Aquatics Center in West Hartford. The Vikings had 309 points while champion Weston finished with 644.

East Lyme had one medal winner as its 400-yard freestyle relay team of Eain Goolsbey, Jack Zhang, Jack Mucciarone and Robert Hahn placed fifth in 3:30.64.

The Vikings had one previous medal winner in Prouty, who finished fifth in last week's diving competition with 342.45 points.

College softball

• Coast Guard wrapped up its southern swing at 7-1 with wins over Lasell (9-0) and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (7-1) at Clermont, Fla.

Emma Hvozdovich hit for the cycle and drove in four runs, Carley Hattman had three hits and scored twice and Waterford's Claire Hurley scored twice and drove in three runs for Coast Guard.

Julia Ferris (4-1) pitched a five-inning shutout against Lasell, allowing four hits. Freshamn Sydney Arendt (3-0) pitched a seven-hitter against MCLA.

Women's lacrosse

• Jamie Navoni scored seven goals and added an assist as Connecticut College outlasted Endicott 12-10 in a non-conference game in New London.

Clara Bisson added three goals, two assists and a gamehigh eight draws for the Camels (2-2) and goalie Megan Mullin made seven saves. Endicott is 3-1.

Men's hockey

• UConn junior Maxim Letuov (Moscow, Russia) signed an entry-level contract with the NHL's San Jose Sharks. Letunov had 35 goals and 60 assists in this three seasons with the Huskies, including a team high 28 points (12 goals, 16 assists) as the Huskies reached the Hockey East quarterfinals for the first time before losing a best-ofthree series at Boston University.